This section provides details of how standard processes can be dramatically streamlined by using RF Express to provide an electronic data capture solution.
Please select a process below to see how Eagle can improve your operations.
Process Before
Goods Received, operator tries to identify goods
Make systems verify delivery correct. Goods received and identifications printed
Goods moved to a location
Location movement made
The Risks
No clear identification of goods being received
Very slow to identify badly or incorrectly labelled stock
Transcription errors occur very easily
No visibility of stock
No validation that location is ok until operator returns to terminal
Process with RF Express
Suppliers use web based label printing to label goods with bar code
Goods scanned to receipt and scanned into valid location. Instant stock visibility and validation. Labels can be opitonally printed on rececipt of required or if supplier labelling isnt used
Process Before
Print locations and items to check
Go to location and identify stock, count and record. If any other stock is found go back to terminal to check
Update stock on terminal
The Risks
Printed report not real time
No way to check errors without walking back to terminal
Transcription errors occur very easily
Done sometime after the event, without freezing inventory / stores, this maybe entering an invalid count.
Process with RF Express
Separate tranactions for counts and recounts
Go to location, scan details and update stock real time
Optionally a report can be used to give a list of locations to count
Process Before
Goods produced and for shipment or storage
Systems used to create identification labels, platform production receipt
Location movement made
System used to transact location move
The Risks
Remote disconnected processes can lead to errors. Labels are created separately
Production recording is often late compared to shipping leading to negative stocks and recocilliation issues
Palletistion and containerisation is often a seperate step in the process
No validation that this location is ok until operator returns to terminal
Process with RF Express
Goods produced and ready for shipment or storage
Scanner used to receipt goods and creates bar coded identification lables to ensure accuracy.
Location movement made and scaner used to record move
Process Before
QAD Enterprise Solutions used to create picking list for dispatch
Good located and picked from the picking list, no transactions made
Transaction made later on terminal. Stock is incorrect until this point
The Risks
Remote disconnected processes can lead to errors
No way to validate that the operator has picked the goods as he has requested. Can lead to wrong goods being picked.
No real time visibility of stock. Once goods are removed from the racks, the stock is wrong
No validation that this location is ok until operator returns to terminal
Process with RF Express
QAD Enterprise Solutions used to create picking list for despatch
Goods picked from the picking list and scanned to valid correct part and batch number. Container info is recorded and can be exported on EDI transmission. This updates the system, keeping stock positions accurate
