(PORTSMOUTH, RI) October 18, 2016 – A2B Tracking Solutions will receive the region’s top Business Excellence Award for Entrepreneurship from Providence Business News during the 16th Annual Business Excellence Awards ceremony on November 17th. A2B Tracking has pioneered military-grade solutions for identifying, marking and tracking critical assets for DoD agencies and the contractors who support [...]
Focus on Property Management, IUID and WAWF PORTSMOUTH, RI, April 12, 2016 A2B Tracking announces Pat Jacklets, A2B Tracking’s Asset Management Consultant, as speaker at NPMA’s Spring Education Seminar. National Property Management Association (NPMA) will host the event on May 2nd-4th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The event is just in time to prep attendees for the [...]
There are many benefits to using barcodes and RFID tags for auto identification. Auto identification technology allows for simple product identification and authentication, visibility of assets, items, and equipment, enhanced security, faster, more accurate inventory control, labor savings, and precise data. The difficulty of implementation, however, often lies in deciding between barcodes or RFID tags [...]
With the emergence of Item Unique Identification, or IUID, confusions regarding implementation have come to the surface. Implementing IUID and being compliant with government restrictions begins with your contract. The Department of Defense has determined that it is imperative that items valued at or above $5,000 be marked with UID. Take a look at your [...]
By now most Department of Defense (DoD) contractors are aware that DoD’s Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) invoicing system changed its name to Invoicing, Receipt, Acceptance and Property Transfer (iRAPT) in November 2014. The iRAPT system was created to support DoD’s goal of moving to a paperless acquisition process to track where everything DoD owns is [...]
When dealing with highly regulated industries, tracking physical assets in an organized and efficient manner is vital. Military standards for IUID compliance mandated by the Department of Defense are no exception when it comes to regulating Government contractors that provide goods and services to the military. Asset tracking requires the coordination of a vast [...]
By now, most people involved with the managing of government furnished property or shipping end items to the Department of Defense has heard of iRAPT, the new moniker for the Wide Area Workflow. While this change may make contractors fear that their invoice submissions and property reporting could become even more complicated, the good news is that iRAPT—which [...]
Keeping up with the necessary Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) on all your products and equipment is a lengthy and sometimes complicated process. You may find yourself struggling to maintain compliance standards, as it is extremely easy to get confused. Often, a lot of different workers from various departments participate in different stages of the IUID compliance progression, making it [...]
Simple and effective asset tracking is an essential part of your operation. You can have all the latest and greatest software for asset tracking, but without the hardware components to go with it, that sophisticated software is essentially useless. Proper tracking hardware – from barcodes to mobile computers – will complement your software and make [...]
Whether the purpose of your program is to establish Auto ID policies and procedures, or to institute and manage complex asset track and trace or compliance programs, A2B’s Program Management team can ensure your success when installing barcode and RFID-enabled systems. We’ll provide you with an implementation plan and schedule that will help you to successfully [...]
