Benefits of Real-Time RF Scanning
If you employ real-time RF scanning in your day-to-day operations, then you already know how monumental and beneficial this change can be to your business. RF scanning gives you instantaneous information you need about quantity, cycle-count, and picking updates on your product. If you haven’t incorporated this, then it’s a solution to consider—at any level—to increase your accuracy, to incorporate live-information to your operations, and to create efficiency throughout your staffing.
More Accuracy
Whether dealing with millions of SKUs or only hundreds, RF scanning connects your product with your databases to ensure the quantity you have on hand matches the quantity in your system. With trained staffing, cycle-count inaccuracies can be remedied on-spot, product can be received, and orders can be filled—all with a hand-held unit.
More so, RF scanning allows you to know exactly where your product is when in transit. Each scan will allow you to know at what location the product currently is, and where it’s heading next—all information that can be communicated to your clients and customers.
Live Information
Inventory analysis can be difficult if you have to wait for reports to be completed, or for paper to be processed. At an efficient distribution hub, inventory changes every minute, and you need to be able to know when, exactly, that quantity changes in order to convey to clients and customers what you have available on-hand. RF scanning allows you to have a live feed when quantities change or are discovered to be inaccurate.
Live information is also valuable to your clients and customers. With RF scanning, you can provide proof that your warehousing is accurate and efficient.
Made for Efficient Staff
When your employees are equipped with RF scanning capabilities, they know that every action or pick they complete is on record. More so, they know the value of accurate inventory. So each time a picker arrives at a location that doesn’t have the product the system says it has, they’ll know how to complete cycle-counts to remedy the problem. When pickers, receivers, and shippers know the value of accurate inventory—through their RF scanners—they begin to take more responsibility for the transfer of product.
The more information you provide your employees, the greater the chance they’ll value that information as you do -- including inventory. So, to have RF-equipped employees on your team means everyone is on the same page, at the same time.