RFID and Pervasive Technologies

Warehouse Management

Adoption trends
  • Many warehousing issues historically considered as "realities" of the business are being addressed by RFID
  1. Receipt discrepancies
  2. Wait Times
  3. Pick / Fill inaccuracies , etc
  • Addressing operational disconnects improves space utilization, reduces supplier disputes and eliminates "hunting" for misplaced products
  • Infosys' Solution Integration Platform that enables device, application and data integration, combined with our global systems integration capabilities enables rapid deployment across geographies

Our experience
For a major shipping and delivery company, Infosys enabled instant access to shipment status data by customer
  • Infosys designed and implemented an internal tracking systems to locate and identify movable totes used for transporting small shipments across the warehouse and from one conveyor belt to another
  • Each tote identified a specific customer's shipments, permitting instant access to shipment status and verification of shipments that appeared 'lost' in the Warehouse Management System

For a major 3PL company, Infosys enabled automated receiving and shipping of RFID tagged merchandise by
  • Leveraging the existing Warehouse Management System to automate the receiving and shipping
  • Developing a custom software solution to enable automatic data collection using a lightweight, flexible and extensible architecture