Positive Step for the Logistics Industry
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As a third-party public warehouse, my company is constantly looking at technologies to streamline the process of receiving, storing, and shipping material for our customers. Currently we receive inventory to our docks in two ways:
1. Material is received at the dock and put away in location by warehousemen. They record exactly what came in on a form and turn it in to the office staff who enter the information into the database. This relies on the warehouseman to count the material correctly, fill out the form correctly, then for the office staff to enter the data correctly. The system works, but there are many opportunities for data entry errors. One misread, miscount, mis-type and the data is bad.
2. Material arrives at the dock and barcodes are scanned. The data is uploaded to the system without any human interaction besides the original scan and a later check against the Bill of Lading that came with the load. Much better than the first method, but it comes with its own issues. For one, if the material is put into location, stacked high off the ground, reading barcodes for inventory purposes can be problematic. Also, it relies on a good quality barcode. A lot of our material arrives after long truck/train rides with the material rubbing and jostling against its neighbor resulting in many unreadable barcodes.
RFID is the next logical step for us. For the material to cross from the truck/train to our dock and be read by an RFID reader without the warehouseman having to aim a laser at a possibly unreadable barcode would be nice. The customer would also be able to follow that particular RFID all the way from manufacturing through the distribution process.
I understand privacy concerns, but in regard to the logistics industry I see RFID as a positive thing.
Yeah! The broadcasters have been ignoring my EULA for years. Somewhere in it there's something about beaming signals through my body and some kind of "pay-per-signal" thing, but I haven't read it in a while.
I don't know, I think I'm going to burn a copy of Britney's latest (downloaded of course), put a couple of throw pillows under my shirt, present the disc as a demo, and get me my recording contract!
Funny, isn't that exactly how record companies make their money? Taking someone else's "A Paper", making copies of it, and selling it? I realize it's semantics here, but come on, can't she even get decent analogy to illustrate her point?
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Of course that's assuming that there's actually logic behind it.
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As a third-party public warehouse, my company is constantly looking at technologies to streamline the process of receiving, storing, and shipping material for our customers. Currently we receive inventory to our docks in two ways: 1. Material is received at the dock and put away in location by warehousemen. They record exactly what came in on a form and turn it in to the office staff who enter the information into the database. This relies on the warehouseman to count the material correctly, fill out the form correctly, then for the office staff to enter the data correctly. The system works, but there are many opportunities for data entry errors. One misread, miscount, mis-type and the data is bad. 2. Material arrives at the dock and barcodes are scanned. The data is uploaded to the system without any human interaction besides the original scan and a later check against the Bill of Lading that came with the load. Much better than the first method, but it comes with its own issues. For one, if the material is put into location, stacked high off the ground, reading barcodes for inventory purposes can be problematic. Also, it relies on a good quality barcode. A lot of our material arrives after long truck/train rides with the material rubbing and jostling against its neighbor resulting in many unreadable barcodes. RFID is the next logical step for us. For the material to cross from the truck/train to our dock and be read by an RFID reader without the warehouseman having to aim a laser at a possibly unreadable barcode would be nice. The customer would also be able to follow that particular RFID all the way from manufacturing through the distribution process. I understand privacy concerns, but in regard to the logistics industry I see RFID as a positive thing.
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Yeah! The broadcasters have been ignoring my EULA for years. Somewhere in it there's something about beaming signals through my body and some kind of "pay-per-signal" thing, but I haven't read it in a while.
Hehehe... good point. Here I am bitching about flawed analogies, and mine's just as bad. Well, me and my pillows are heading to LA.
I don't know, I think I'm going to burn a copy of Britney's latest (downloaded of course), put a couple of throw pillows under my shirt, present the disc as a demo, and get me my recording contract!
Funny, isn't that exactly how record companies make their money? Taking someone else's "A Paper", making copies of it, and selling it? I realize it's semantics here, but come on, can't she even get decent analogy to illustrate her point?
Of course that's assuming that there's actually logic behind it.
Computers don't trade movies, people trade movies. "It's a mad house! A mad house!"