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RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) in Supply Chain Management
Can RFID dramatically increase the efficiency of business processes, supply chain management, and operations by enhancing visibility of your assets and products across your enterprise?
Yes!
And through our client experiences, CSC can help your organization understand how it can realize the full potential of RFID. From our perspective, organizations must adhere to these guiding principles as they navigate RFID implementation and deployment – from compliance to value:
- A holistic multi-disciplinary approach helps identify RFID value
- Real-time exception-based management with RFID can be positively disruptive
- Systems integrators should support the RFID solution they deliver
The success of an enterprise RFID implementation hinges upon teaming with multi-disciplinary group of people with vision, partner network, and extensive experience in RFID, as well as in these critical disciplines:
- Business strategy and processes
- Corporate financial analyses
- Supply chain and operations
- IT systems integration
- Data management and analytics
- Change management
- Sustained support and maintenance
- Global presence
A holistic approach to RFID opportunity assessment and implementation is required to successfully extract value and help create competitive advantage across your enterprise. CSC combines its team expertise, deep skills, hands-on experience, and proven approach to deliver world-class RFID solutions.
The ROI of RFID
Our RFID team members draw on their experience and our solution methodologies in supporting senior executives of Global 1000 corporations in a variety of industries including:
- Aerospace and Defense
- Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Retail
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- High Technology
- Logistics Services
- Federal Government
Here are just a few client successes that are indicative of our most recent experiences with RFID:
Major aerospace and defense contractors needed tool and gage tracking, and management for MRO and production operations. As a result of our RFID implementation, the clients are realizing:
- Increased asset visibility to reduce search time
- Reduced number of lost tools and enhanced facilitation of calibration compliance
- Shortened production cycle and improved audit compliance
- Estimated first year ROI of 50 -100 percent
A medical device manufacturer sought a consigned medical device inventory tracking solution. CSC’s RFID solution enabled them to:
- Reduce time to account for and track consigned inventory at multiple hospitals and mobile inventory
- Slash inventory write-offs
- Shorten cash cycle
A leading financial institution wanted to enhance its IT asset management capabilities. CSC worked with them to implement a RFID system that:
- Integrated into their asset management system to reduce physical inventory counts and enhance asset security
- Reduced labor and IT cost savings from greater security
- Achieved desired ROI
A U.S. Customs & Border Protection agency sought secure border crossing design and implementation. Working with CSC’s RFID team, the agency was able to:
- Facilitate fast and easy border crossing of vehicles and trusted travelers while increasing homeland security
- Decrease border crossing time from minutes to seconds
Leading organizations needed an enterprise-wide U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) RFID compliance solution design, integration into SAP, and sustained support and maintenance. CSC helped these organizations to:
- Quickly meet the U.S. DoD RFID mandate through a web service architecture solution designed for easy and inexpensive deployment of application across multiple facilities -- allowing additional applications to be integrated to leverage the initial capital expenditure
Major Wal-Mart suppliers wanted a Wal-Mart RFID mandate compliance strategy, as well as pilots and implementations. By employing CSC’s holistic approach, these suppliers are:
- Maximizing read performance
- Driving value and scalability across the enterprise by using a strategic roadmap
- Realizing value from compliance
CSC's Guiding principals of RFID
CSC's RFID Experts
In RFID deployments, an experienced, multi-disciplinary team is critical. CSC has amassed a team of experts and thought leaders that combine RFID experience with supply chain, lean manufacturing, business strategy, IT system integration, software development, and corporate finance expertise. Our global team members have industry depth and at least four years of experience developing RFID strategy, designing pilots, and deploying enterprise-wide RFID solutions.
Some of the most noteworthy team members in CSC’s RFID practice include:
Dennis Alley, partner
Dennis was awarded Oracle Magazine’s RFID Architect of the Year Award in 2006 for successful design and deployment of a scalable enterprise-wide architecture and solution for a major defense contractor.
Duncan McCollum, principal
Duncan is a RFID veteran and co-author of “RFID: Strategic Implementation and ROI”.
More Information
By combining our multi-disciplinary experience and approach with our clients’ extensive knowledge of their specific business operations, we can demonstrate value with RFID that can be scaled enterprise-wide.
Let our team help your organization realize the full potential of RFID. Please contact Don Lee at dlee43@csc.com or Duncan McCollum at dmccollum@csc.com.
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