Using RF-assisted and RF-directed moves

Maintaining accurate and up-to-date locations for the inventory is essential to good inventory control and management.

Using RF to perform manual moves allows the system to immediately record the inventory movement at the same time it is physically moved. This provides the optimal inventory control, which enables the system and physical inventory to remain synchronized. Using the workstation to record physical product movement is required in operations or circumstances where RF is not available.

Common examples using RF-assisted and RF-directed moves

A warehouse encounters misplaced pallets that can be traced back to poor coordination of physical movement and manual key entry of moves.

RF-assisted moves

A warehouse needs to combine its standard picked orders with its crossdock orders. RF-assisted moves direct both carton IDs and drop IDs to the same outbound lane, merging them for shipment.

RF-directed moves

A warehouse needs pallets to be moved for the assemblers within a work-in-process (WIP) area, but it is not possible to devote a forklift and an operator to the tasks because not enough moves exist to support a full-time associate.

RF-assisted or directed moves

A warehouse uses specialized equipment (stacker cranes, turret trucks, order pickers, and so on), requiring extra moves to accomplish putaway and replenishment.