Technology Evaluation Assignment

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Technology Evaluation Assignment

• Ryan Quinn-Hurley
• Cecilia Alvarez
• FA12 Shipping, Receiving Warehousing

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Summary

• Introduction to RFIDs
• Focus on Activewave
• Focus on ODIN
• Comparison
• Recommendation
• Conclusion

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Introduction to RFIDs

• Radio Frequency Identification
• Types of RFID (passive, semi-passive, active)
• Impact on business
• Complete solution

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Activewave RFID Solutions

• Benefits
• Founded by veterans of RFID industry
• User-friendly Windows based software
• Track goods anywhere within warehouse
• Solutions for security issues
• Additional benefits facilitates JIT, total asset
  visibility, increase efficiency, reduced
  inventory
• Risks
• No mention of support, help desk
• Only available as active RFID
• No clear reviews or well known clients
• Website is dated

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ODIN Technologies

• Ranked 1 by moreRFID
• Deployed RFID solutions over 4 continents
• Employs most compTIA RFID engineers
• Authors of RFID for Dummies
• Only RFID company providing 24x7 help
• EASY suite of software
• RFID Update survey from rfidranking.com
• ODIN focuses solely on RFIDs

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Comparisons
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Comparisons
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Comparisons
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Comparisons
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Comparisons
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Average Savings of RFID Implementation
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Recommendation

• ODIN Technologies!
• Trusted market leader
• Rated highest by trade publication and end-users
• User-friendly software, 24x7 support
• Added value through EASY brand suite
• Focus on education
• Most certified engineers in industry
• Lower costs of implementation, higher ROI

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ODIN RFID Program Lifecycle
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Conclusion

• Real time inventory updating
• Current system lost product, wasted time
• Automatically create documents, trigger automatic
  order refills (JIT)
• Allow for reduction in SRW head count
• Easily integrated in petGRO, supports SAP
• Increase in productivity faster ROI