RFID Technology is making great progress as far as improvements in technology with better readers, tags and equipment. It’s an exciting time to watch RFID become a major player in the Asset Tracking landscape. Unfortunately, I believe there is still a common belief that RFID is only for the most expensive assets and that RFID [...]
Labeling and uploading all of your qualifying government property and material to the IUID Registry with an Item-Unique Identification (IUID) barcode is essential to supporting your US Military contract requirements. This IUID Compliance process can be broken down into 3 main phases — Marking, Data Capture and Registration. […]
In today’s business world, the sheer number of computers, servers, printers, smartphones and tablets that our IT departments are being asked to manage increases every day. For most organizations, that IT equipment is critical to their success and being able to smartly manage that IT inventory is an important part of any organization’s strategy. [...]
As a supplier or defense contractor, your ability to utilize the iRAPT system is paramount to your success. Fortunately, we have written a comprehensive guide -- iRAPT and the DoD - what suppliers and contractors need to know about iRAPT. The purpose of this guide is to help you understand what your role is as [...]
As part of the A2B Tracking Webinar Series, Peter Collins and I recently discussed the 5 Key Steps to create a compliant MIL‑STD‑130 IUID label. For the purpose of this post I would like to talk about IUID Verification and Compliance Reports for audit preparation. Audit Readiness In 2018, Audit Preparation of government property and [...]
In today’s business world, Information Technology (IT) equipment is one of the more valuable and critical assets that an organization has to manage. Performing manual inventories or assignments of IT assets and even using barcode technology is difficult, time consuming and risky. Modern organizations don’t have the luxury to perform manual inventories on their IT [...]
If you’re working with the DoD or you’re a branch of the services, you already know there are strict guidelines to asset identification, shipments and reporting to iRAPT and IUID Registry. Military IUID compliance needs to be a primary concern in order to keep your contract and get paid. Audit Readiness The US Congress is [...]
In our recent webinar, Peter Collins and I went through the 5 Key Steps to Audit-Ready IUID Labels. We started off this live webinar session by addressing a question that I get fairly regularly — Why are IUID labels so important? […]
(Portsmouth, RI) February 1, 2018 – A2B Tracking announces that it has successfully completed the Zebra Technologies Software Validation Program for PartnerConnect ISVs. Zebra’s solution lab certified A2B Tracking’s cloud-based software against a battery of tests to ensure that the software operates seamlessly for barcode and RFID asset tracking with Zebra’s RFD 8500 reader coupled with the [...]
The US Department of Defense is being held accountable to achieve and sustain full audit readiness. This department-wide endeavour requires military contractors and program managers to track and report all mission critical property, inventory, equipment, operating material and supplies. No small challenge. This means that all qualifying mission critical assets need to be marked with [...]
