Logistics
BackTurnover Boxes Tracking for Automotive Parts Suppliers
A US auto parts manufacturer faced turnover box losses after shipments to customers, with each box worth about USD 125, resulting in high costs. Manual counting of turnover boxes during returns is time-consuming and prone to errors, increasing management difficulty and losses.
Success Stories
Implementing the WNC RFID Portal not only saves labor and time for inventory counting and greatly improves accuracy, but also tracks the flow of turnover boxes, helping trace and remind customers to return them.
Benefits
Implementing the system greatly improves inventory efficiency and accuracy, while tracking turnover box movements. This significantly reduces losses, supports reuse for environmental benefits, saves substantial box purchase costs, and achieves ROI within six months. (As reported in the Wall Street Journal.)
Applicable Products
RFID Portal
Logistics Cage Cart Management
A situation that happens often during shipping is that cage carts carrying items are lost or moved to the wrong place, resulting in missing items or items delivered to incorrect locations, which leads to delays and late delivery penalties.
Success Stories
WNC's RFID Portal can quickly and accurately track cage carts and the items on each cart, reducing item search time and delivery errors as well as boosting shipping efficiency.
Benefits
Real-time monitoring of cage cart quantity and locations in real time to prevent shipment delays due to cart shortages. Accurate tracking of when carts enter/exit warehouses to ensure first-in, first-out approach is being followed. Arranging of deliveries based on urgency to avoid late delivery penalties and to boost warehouse logistics efficiency.
Applicable Products
RFID Portal
Cold Chain Management in Food Processing Factories
In food processing factories, the temperature at each station as well as the duration that food items stay at each station must be strictly controlled. Without real-time location and temperature monitoring, it is difficult to detect issues in the cold chain, resulting in insufficient supply chain transparency, poor item traceability, and increased food safety risk.
Success Stories
By deploying WNC’s RFID Portal at temperature-controlled checkpoints and utilizing UHF RFID handheld readers and temperature sensors, the location and temperature data of food items can be quickly uploaded to management platforms, enabling fully automated item tracking, real-time cold chain monitoring, and robust item traceability.
Benefits
With real-time tracking and monitoring, location and temperature data are automatically captured and uploaded at every stage, from production to storage and transportation, reducing the amount of manual work needed. The system can also instantly detect any temperature issues in the cold chain and send out an alert, ensuring food quality and safety. All data is integrated into a single platform, enhancing supply chain transparency and item traceability, and in turn reducing the time needed to resolve issues.
Applicable Products
RFID Portal
Bedding and Clothing In-and-out Management
Laundries that handle hospital bedding and clothing need to check the quantity of items and sort them into categories for washing, then deliver the cleaned bedding and clothing to different hospitals. Solutions that can accelerate the quantity verification and category sorting processes will help improve management efficiency and facilitate accurate cost calculation.
Success Stories
Installing WNC RFID solutions at sorting stations, drying stations, and folding stations in laundries will enable tracking of items as they pass through stations, and the amount of time each item stays at a station can also be logged.
Benefits
The RFID system significantly improves management efficiency by tracking worker productivity and working hours, helping to set KPIs and optimize workforce allocation. Meanwhile, the accurate data provided by the system enables healthcare institutions to precisely calculate costs and turnover rates, thereby facilitating contract negotiations.
Applicable Products
RFID Tunnel
WAVE® Gate
Smart Picking & Shipping Verification
Under pressure to handle massive shipping volumes for both retail store replenishment and e-commerce orders, warehouse teams must rapidly sort, pick and pack goods daily according to orders. Any error in item types or quantities may lead to retail stockouts or shipping delays, thereby undermining customer satisfaction. As a result, personnel are often forced to spend many hours manually cross-checking orders.
Success Stories
Leveraging RFID tunnels and WAVE® Cube’s high-density reading capabilities, personnel simply place packed cartons into the system, which instantly matches the RFID tags inside with the shipping lists. Once verified, the system triggers the printer to generate shipping labels, eliminating the need for secondary manual checks. This process significantly accelerates dispatch speeds and operational efficiency.
Benefits
Through real-time matching of shipped items against orders, the system reduces risk of incorrect shipments, missed items, and retail stockouts. This helps safeguard sales opportunities and prevent customer complaints, while lowering return costs, manual labor and verification times. Businesses can therefore pace their shipping flows, optimize resource allocation, and maximize overall warehouse productivity.
Applicable Products
RFID Tunnel
WAVE® Cube