enterprise visibility

Logistics

Success in supply-chain operations requires skillful management of people, equipment, inventory and processes. Real-time enterprise visibility data helps manufacturing and logistics operations significantly cut costs, improve productivity, reduce errors and speed delivery.

Visibility data can boost logistical efficiency across industries and in both indoor and outdoor environments, including yards, parking lots, factory shop floors, retail stores, transportation hubs, warehouses and distribution centers.

Yard management

A large cross-docking yard or distribution center operated by a retailer, distributor or a Third Party Logistics (3PL) provider can have thousands of trailers and containers on site at any time, scheduling loading and unloading into over one hundred different loading docks. When a trailer is placed in the wrong location or incorrectly recorded, it must be located manually before loading can commence. Facilities often spend several hours each day auditing the yard and searching for particular trailers, incurring significant labor costs as well as fuel costs and lost productivity. Full visibility of trailer and container locations, when used in conjunction with yard management software, can dramatically reduce these costs.

Container management

Many industries employ reusable containers to carry finished goods through the supply chain. Examples of containers include pallets, plastic boxes, larger metal and plastic containers and canisters for gases and liquids among others. The use of such containers is typically not managed efficiently: businesses have more containers than they need because they have difficulties managing supply and demand. Knowledge of where containers are at any time and how to find the closest containers for a particular need can both cut the number of containers used in a business and also eliminate problems created by shortages of containers.

Manufacturing

Manual tracking of assets is a labor-intensive and error-prone task. In industries such as manufacturing, the task is particularly challenging. ProductiveT RTLS and barcode visibility solutions enable accurate inventory tracking, real-time monitoring and movement management of work in process, tools, equipment and key personnel. Equipment utilization improves and staff productivity increases. Learn the true cost of making a product by tracking the actual activities that goes into making it. From the time raw material comes in to the time finished products ship out, you will be in control.

Areas where ProductiveT asset management team may help are:

• Inventory management – Track the location of finished goods and work in process using simple barcode tracking systems or real time locating solutions. Get deeper insights into your inventory movement and current stock levels. Reduce the time it takes to search for products and eliminate inefficiencies that eat into your bottom line.
• Workplace safety – Monitor your processes and activities and proactively deal with hazardous scenarios and potential accidents. Employees may use panic buttons on tags in an emergency situation to get immediate help.
• Event notification and management – Look deeper into your operations. Using our visibility solutions, get alerts and real time reports to help you identify actual activities that go into building your product. Discover inefficiencies as they happen and act immediately.
• Staff utilization – accelerate production processes by assigning the right resource to the right process. See the assembly line come to life in a way never before possible. Help your team build on their strengths and guide them to overcome challenges in their job areas.
• Work-flow improvement – Discover bottlenecks, inefficient processes, and potential problems and improve resource utilization with deeper insight into your operations.

Government

Government agencies such as the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security, have assumed the leadership role in utilizing the most advanced visibility solutions. Our people have extensive government work experience and our solutions have been used in multiple government deployments.

We are located ten minutes away from Tinker AFB: One of the largest US Air Force and Navy maintenance and support facilities. Tinker has been in the forefront in exploring solutions to improve work-flow improvement and asset tracking.

Beyond the military, state agencies are in need of visibility solutions to improve processes and work-flow.

We work with police departments, school systems, technology centers, and universities in the following areas:

1. Inventory management: Using barcode, RFID, and Wi-Fi technology, clients reduce costs associated with replacing lost assets, time spent taking manual inventory and searching for items that were never checked back in.
2. Theft prevention: The lack of adequate security in schools makes them vulnerable to theft of valuable items (projectors, PC’s, video equipment, etc.) Our systems alert security if items move and track their movements in real time.
3. Work process improvement – Gain insights into the mind of your organization and the activities that make it alive.

We are considered a small business and have access to special government vehicles that would expedite deployment of our solutions to the military, especially the Navy.

Please consult with one of our government specialists