Ways Barcode and RFID Benefits in E-Supply Chain Management

Running head: E-SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
E-Supply Chain Management
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1E-SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Ways barcode and RFID benefits helps in storage and picking of warehousing:
Implementing RFID has developed operational efficiency with productivity in distributing
centers and warehouses of Metacash across the globe. RFID has been complementing technology to
capture data such as barcodes that are used already in distribution centers and warehouses of
Metacash. It reduces labor costs by distributing primary warehouse worker functions (Han, Wang
and Sidén 2015). This includes all the things from inventory for shipping packing and picking to put
away. It also increases the accuracy of the list. This is done by developing precision and efficiency
and ordering and picking accuracy in Metacash. It also reduces stock levels of inventory. This
expands stocks and visibility of demand generation.
Further, it decreases unsalable and items that are out-of-stock. Here, lower levels and leaner
stages of inventory indicate quicker turns of inventory and lesser stagnant amount of stock in
Metacash. Moreiver, customer satisfaction can also be developed. This is done through assuring
proper goods are reaching adequate customer within the right time. Further, receiving items, pallets
and cases have been using barcodes traditionally. The workers have been scanning them one by one.
Having RFIDS, these items are read all at a glance through portal readers (Tucker, Darcy and Stantic
2014). These are placed at dock doors when they get unloaded from a truck. For instance, unloading
any inbound container has been taking and few hours to scan, sort and then count cartons
individually. This has been making less than an hour with the help of packages that are tagged with
RFID. Through WMS any warehouse management systems, items are able to get cross-docked to
store immediately.