Case Study
Case Study: Increase Inventory Visibility with RFID
CLIENT PROFILE AND ISSUE
Since 1983, Stoll & Co. has been a respected name in the watch repair industry. As their clientele has grown, so has the number of watches and parts Stoll & Co has to keep track of manually. Over the years, employees spent an increasing amount of time locating watches to be repaired or to be shipped. They realized that time spent locating items would be better spent serving customers, and they decided to look for an inventory tracking solution to help streamline their inventory process.
DISCOVERY PROCESS
With the utmost concerns of efficiency and security, Stoll & Co. partnered with CDO Technologies, to create a solution to their tracking issues. They sought a tracking system that could locate each watch quickly, and after reviewing their processes, CDO recommended building a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag-based inventory tracking solution to .
INVENTORY TRACKING SOLUTION
CDO worked with Stoll & Co. to place a passive RFID tag on each watch carrier bag. When a watch was needed, employees could use an RFID handheld reader to scan the area. This RFID tag-based tracking system allows the reader picks up the signal from the requisite tag to quickly locate the watch.
RESULTS OF INVENTORY TRACKING SOLUTION
Prior to implementing CDO’s RFID tracking system, Stoll & Co. staff spent nearly seven hours each day locating inventory items. After implementing CDO’s tracking solution, that time dropped to less than fifteen minutes each day. Because of this remarkable improvement, Stoll & Co. plans on implementing other visibility-based projects such as automated shipment validation and workflow efficiency monitoring.
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