Often, businesses invest in millions of dollars in technology to solve issues and improve operations. However, technology, by itself, is not the main answer to operational improvement. Technology is a tool -- a tool that can be very powerful when used by people who understand its potential impact. Organizations that use the iRAPT (Invoicing, Receipt, [...]
Consider a time when you had to change your phone number, your home address, or your email. It probably took some time before you could recite the new information with assurance. When we use or say something repetitively, it becomes a part of our behavior. The names of famous institutions, people, and sports teams you’re [...]
In business and baseball, some statistics matter more than others. For decades, baseball analysts, who called themselves sabermetricians, tried to convince baseball executives and managers that they were relying on the wrong statistics when making decisions about who to sign and put on the field. Baseball executives insisted that statistics like batting average, runs batted [...]
Auchan Group had a major problem in 2011; the French supermarket company’s reusable plastic containers were often ending up lost or stolen. Why was this a big deal? Auchan has 1.8 million plastic reusable containers. That’s not a typo. The company, as of 2011, was the 12th largest food retailer in the world with about [...]
“RFID-Enabled Walkie-Talkies Help Track Remote Workers” “Intel Unveils RFID System for Retailers” “RFID to Bring Literacy to Down Syndrome Children” “In Dunwoody, Ga., Police Use RFID to Open Gates” The above headlines all appeared in the trade magazine RFID Journal in the year 2015. You only need to read a few of the approximately 250 [...]
Understandably, many have become numb to terms like “mobile”, “mobility”, and “mobile technology.” The terms are used so frequently in basic functions of our lives that it is often too easy to disregard the need to evaluate and recognize the breadth of their impact, especially for tracking and managing assets. This is one area where [...]
Since fiscal year 1999 the Department of Defense (DoD) has been driven to create a paperless invoicing environment. The Invoicing, Receipt, Acceptance, and Property Transfer (iRAPT) application has provided a secure web-based system that is actively used for electronic invoicing, receipt, and acceptance. This innovative application is now playing an important role in your [...]
RFID technology (which stands for "radio-frequency identification") allows organizations to track assets with a higher level of efficiency, accuracy, and comprehensiveness than ever before. One of the most valuable benefits for an organization implementing RFID is the significant decrease in the necessary amount of human resources; the data collected with RFID technology is often [...]
SRA International Inc. provides sophisticated information technology and professional services to the U.S. federal government. SRA helps government customers address complex IT needs in order to achieve their missions. SRA’s website states, “We are inspired by our customers’ missions and strive to provide the best people, working together to generate the best ideas, to [...]
Asset tracking and inventory management, while both crucial to an operation’s success, share commonalities. In a nutshell: asset tracking via auto ID technology such as barcode and RFID technology will inherently manage inventory, but inventory management is a broad practice that encompasses many facets of a successful operations. Rather, it is simply one of many [...]