No matter how big or small your business is, you receive regular shipments of inventory, supplies, or other goods. Therefore, integrating container tracking and your enterprise resource planning (ERP) is essential for managing quality, timing, and business relationships.
Topics: tracking, integration, john shepperson, oates co, manufacturing, analytics, container tracking, hanjin
When your distribution company starts to grow, gaining local and global customers alike, your accounting department will find it more and more time consuming to prepare invoices.
Topics: ERP, Sage, tracking, enterprise resource planning, integration, john shepperson, modules, oates co, sage erp, sales orders, credit card processing
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of radio frequencies to transfer data. The radio frequencies are then used to automatically identify people or objects. There is more than one way to do so, but the most widely used method is to store a person or object’s serial number on a microchip. The microchip is attached to an antenna – known as RFID transponder or an RFID tag – and the antenna enables the chip to transmit information to a reader. The reader reads the radio waves and sends them to a computer. Unlike bar codes, the RFID tags do not have to be in line of sight with the reader.
RFID is not necessarily better than bar codes, however. Although their uses sometimes overlap, they are two different technologies. The biggest difference, as we mentioned, is the line-of-sight factor – a scanner has to see a bar code to read it, which involves people physically locating inventory and scanning it. Radio frequency identification, by contrast, doesn’t require line-of-sight. As long as a reader is in range – and readers have extremely long ranges – RFID tags can be read.
Topics: oates and co, automation, tracking, RFID, radio frequency, automating processes, inventory management, john shepperson
Your business depends on its supplies. If you don’t know when your items left, where they are now, and when they’re going to be delivered, your own shipments can be delayed. These days, supplies move globally. Changes in trade regulations, inspection schedules, and import taxes all impact your business directly.
Topics: business, tracking, container, shipping, supplies, supply chain, containers, container shipping, john shepperson
