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5 REASONS WHY COMPANIES ARE CHOOSING SNIVELY INC. AND ZEBRA FOR THEIR RFID IMPLEMENTATIONS

In our last 3 blogs we have already established that implementing an RFID solution is a revolutionary process for raising inventory accuracy, providing the most accurate and actionable data,streamlining your warehouse or manufacturing processes and increasing your profit margins. Now it is time to discuss how choosing the wrong provider can leave you confused and may lead to selecting the wrong RFID hardware, software and tags to fit your company’s specific needs. These issues can cause costly errors and diminish the many positive benefits that RFID can bring to your company. That’s why it’s important you choose the right RFID provider for your solutions.

By choosing Snively Inc. and Zebra Technologies you know you will be are choosing the right RFID solution for your business.

Here’s just a few reasons why companies are choosing Snively and Zebra for all of their RFID needs.

The broadest RFID product portfolio - No matter what you need to implement your RFID solution, Zebra has it. From handhelds, sleds and fixed readers to RFID printers, antennas and tags. Zebra also offers a global partner channel offering industry-leading apps, warranties and other services. This is why Zebra is always Snively’s go-to RFID hardware supplier.
Proven experience – Snively has been successfully implementing new RFID solutions using Zebra’s industry leading RFID hardware for over 10 years now. Snively cannot only provide custom software development to ensure the most seamless integration into your company’s existing software, but also offers their own custom RFID software program called Tagminder to help flatten the learning curve and have your RFID solution up and running as smoothly and quickly as possible. Equipping your business with the proven expertise that only Snively and Zebra can offer.
Revolutionary innovation - With over 25 years of RFID innovation and 579 RFID technology patents and counting, Zebra Technologies brings your business accelerated performance so you can count on greater speed, higher read rates and maximized reads out of your RFID hardware. While Snively always strives to offer the latest and greatest RFID technology and software on the market and customizes every implementation to ensure it will meet your company’s specific needs.
Extensive dedication - At Snively inc., RFID and Barcoding solutions are all we do. We strive to always meet or exceed our client’s expectations and consistently offer the latest and greatest hardware and software available on the market. With a team of experienced software designers on our staff, if we cannot find a software solution that will work for your company we are happy to develop a custom solution that will fit your exact needs. We are also consistently updating our Tagminder software to work with the latest technologies, such as the move most companies are now making to cloud based services. At the same time, Zebra has over 200 engineers focused full-time on RFID, from designing new products to building the best hardware solutions for your facility. No matter where you are in the world, their support team of 2,000 people in 150 offices across 50 countries is ready to help provide crucial and consistent support for all of your Zebra products.
Simplicity – Snively always recommends starting any RFID implementation with a Site Survey to determine your company’s specific needs. We take great pride in not only meeting but exceeding our client’s expectations when it comes to the implementation of a RFID solution. Snively does not believe in just selling an “out of the box” solution that may not fit all of your needs. With Snively’s wonderful customer service and support along with all of your top-of-the-line hardware coming from one manufacturer, Zebra, troubleshooting and support are readily available and greatly simplified.

Your company cannot go wrong by choosing Snively to equip your business with an industry leading RFID solution using Zebra’s powerful and proven line of products.

5 Supply Chain Challenges Intelligent RFID Can Solve

Using RFID in your operation can be very beneficial to overcoming today’s business challenges. It can solve problems in almost any industry. In fact, with RFID, out-of-stocks are reduced by more than 40% and profit margins are increased by at least 60%. RFID also delivers an 80% improvement in shipping and picking accuracy and improves receiving time by 90%. Simply put, when compared to traditional barcoding systems, RFID helps streamline supply chain management with greater productivity gains and less effort.

Here is how implementing RFID can ultimately combat your top 5 supply chain problems:

Streamlining your inventory accuracy - RFID equips your business with faster locationing and real-time visibility for a more accurate inventory process while also eliminating the human errors that can occur in manual inventory counting and data entry. Having access to real-time, accurate, data helps keep your warehouse or manufacturing processes moving at an efficient pace. When you can gain the most accurate information in real-time about your warehouse or manufacturing facility, it empowers your workers to take more efficient and effective actions.
Ensuring consistent functionality in any environment - Combatting rough environmental conditions can be difficult for your operation, but Zebra’s full line of rugged hardware and media are made to withstand the harshest of environments, including extreme heat, cold, and caustic chemical exposure.
Receiving, managing, and analyzing data - The ability to read and write data directly onto RFID tags in real-time makes processes more flexible to create a cost-effective solution. RFID scanning eliminates longer and more complex workflows in addition to digitizing data. RFID tags can store up to 100 times more data than a traditional barcode, simplifying the process of data gathering.
Optimizing labor costs - RFID technology supplies your business with real-time visibility into inventory movement, which allows teams to accurately pinpoint your inventory, the quantities available and even the current location of each item within your facility. Saving your company the additional labor and time needed to manually count your inventory, receive shipments in and out of your loading docks and the unexpected time and costs related to your employees hunting down misplaced or miscounted assets.
Mitigating other unnecessary costs - Similar to material and inventory labeling, RFID can also be used to track tools, spare machine parts and other equipment, therefore also mitigating these replacement costs and downtime.

This is why it is worth looking into a RFID solution for your business. You have the ability to equip your business with the perfect RFID solution for your company’s needs using the latest and greatest hardware, safotware and media available on the market today when you choose Zebra Technologies and Snively Inc.

How RFID Can Solve Your Company's Top 5 Operational Inefficiencies

Historically, RFID technology has been seen as an overly expensive solution by most manufacturers and warehouse facilities. However, it is becoming more prominent among leading businesses as the RFID tags are now proving that they can simplify integration and maximize accuracy, all while storing and providing up to 100 times more data than traditional barcodes. Increased popularity is further fueled by the increasing demands faced by today’s manufacturing and warehouse facilities for faster order processing. As a result, every part of the supply chain, from the production floor to the dock door, must now prioritize real-time visibility.

In doing so, RFID tracking also addresses the following 5 pain points that often stem from poor operational visibility:

Human errors - Manual inventory counting and data entry leaves more room for human error, especially if data is manually transcribed from one platform to another. RFID scanning, along with customizable software solutions, eliminates the probability of human error and longer or more complex workflows.
Overstocking or understocking assets - inaccurate inventory counts and misplaced or lost parts, equipment or shipments can lead to either understocking or overstocking issues that cost your company valuable time and money. RFID helps cut down on out-of-stock materials, can easily help locate misplaced items within your facility and prevents the need to over-stock assets to ensure their availability.
Outdated reports - In addition to less human errors, RFID scanning also enables real-time updates, empowering the workforce with the most accurate actionable data at all times.
Slow workflows - Real-time tracking optimizes inventory counting, pick paths and assembly, ultimately accelerating workflows since employees no longer have to waste time manually counting inventory and searching for or waiting on materials.
Missing equipment and delayed down time - Similar to material and inventory labeling, RFID can also be used to track tools, replacement parts and equipment, thus eliminating unnecessary replacement costs and downtime.

Meet the Technology Solving These Operation Issues

If these issues are affecting your bottom line, then your company could stand to profit from investing in a RFID solution. Equipping your business with a RFID solution from Zebra Technologies and Snively will enhance your inventory accuracy and real-time asset tracking ability while also supplying your workforce the most accurate actionable data at all times to boost your company’s profitability.

5 REASONS RFID IS BECOMING A “MUST HAVE” TECHNOLOGY

Historically, RFID technology has been seen as a disruptive and/or overly expensive solution. However, RFID is actually becoming a must have technology for all businesses, especially for manufacturing, transportation and warehouse facilities. Studies show that RFID technology can raise inventory accuracy up to 99.9%. When RFID is not implemented, the average inventory accuracy rate in the U.S. is only 65% and 69% of orders shipped are likely to contain errors. RFID technology can help eliminate those errors that commonly occur during manual data entry, order picking and manual inventory counts. With the wide variety of RFID hardware options that are available, such as dock door readers, fixed readers, forklift and machine mounts, ultra-rugged tablets, mobile devices, wearable devices, and handheld scanners your company can complete an accurate inventory count quickly and easily with very few employees or even as easily as just clicking a computer button. RFID can also allow you to track and locate the last known location of an asset within your facility just as quickly. RFID software solutions can be customized to your company’s specific needs by creating accurate reports of your current assets and can even keep track of the location of individual assets as they move through the manufacturing process. RFID tags and labels are also capable of storing up to 100 times more data than traditional barcode labels. With Zebra’s user-friendly interfaces and Snively’s ability to customize the software we can help simplify integration, create reports specifically designed for your company’s data needs and maximize the accuracy of that data. That is why RFID’s capabilities are made to be, and are, very versatile.

Just imagine being able to empower your employees with the best actionable data at all times:

Delivers real time visibility of your company’s assets - RFID technology provides real-time visibility of your company’s assets as they move throughout your facilities. Real-time tracking allows you to have more accurate data that can help streamline your processes, ultimately accelerating workflows. It can also eliminate the need for your employees to waste time looking for lost or misplaced materials or finished products.
Cuts down on out-of-stock assets - RFID helps cut down on out-of-stock materials by allowing your company to keep more up to date and accurate records. This way your employees know when to replenish your company’s inventory faster.
Improves loss prevention and downtime - RFID technology reduces loss, shrink and theft by providing both real time location tracking and useful data on the last known location of a missing asset. Similar to material and inventory labeling, RFID can also be used to track tools and equipment, decreasing unnecessary replacement costs and downtime.
Increases productivity and boosts your company’s margins - When your business has access to the most accurate data and the ability to track and count your inventory quickly and easily without having to have employees count each individual asset while also diminishing the impact of human error, shortages, out of stock or missing assets your employees will have more time to complete other tasks.
Empower your team wherever the job takes them - When you have access to the most accurate, real-time, records of your inventory, assets and/or manufacturing processes, it empowers your employees to make more efficient decisions.

Enhance workflow visibility with Zebra’s RFID portfolio & Snively’s Expertise:

With Zebra’s impressive line of highly rated RFID enabled hardware and tags, along with Snively’s extensive experience with customizable implementations and software solutions, you can maximize asset visibility across your business.

Snively also offers their own customizable software solution called TagMinder:

By using Snively’s TagMinder software combined with Zebra’s RFID hardware you can automatically identify, locate, and track your assets in real time. TagMinder’s integration services also help flatten the learning curve and will have your RFID solutions up and running as smoothly and as quickly as possible.

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Intro to RFID for Inventory Identification, Tracking and Locating

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has rapidly gained momentum as a real-time identifying, tracking and locating technology for businesses of all sizes.

RFID offers a number of crucial advantages over barcoding, allowing businesses to automate and error-proof their inventory and other processes while making dramatic improvements in operational efficiency and visibility. Here’s how it works and why your company might consider RFID.

How does RFID work?

RFID uses radio waves, much like Wi-Fi does, to communicate between an RFID reader and an RFID-enabled tag.

An RFID tag is applied to an object and contains a wireless transmitter. It’s also encoded with a unique identifier, which is tied to a database and used to identify the object and pinpoint its location to within a few feet.

Tags are read wirelessly and automatically, even while they’re moving, when they come within range of the reader. The range is usually 5 to 15 feet, but it can be up to 90 feet depending on the RFID tag and reader technology used.

RFID readers are either handheld mobile computers that can also read RFID tags, or they’re fixed readers installed at dock doors, aisle ways or other strategic locations.

Software such as our TagMinder RFID solution is used to access, manage and update RFID inventory or asset data. TagMinder provides everything you need for an RFID implementation that uses fixed readers, and it’s easy to integrate with mobile devices. You can customize it to include your company’s specific data, and you can use it to interface with other back-end systems and access, manage, and track your assets and inventory items. To get a sense of how it works, watch our quick YouTube video.

How does RFID compare to barcoding?

Unlike a barcode, with RFID you don’t need to line up a scanner or have line-of-sight to a barcode to identify and track an asset. You can read RFID tags wirelessly and remotely, even if they’re not physically visible or accessible.

You can read multiple tags at a time too, so you can identify, track and locate an entire room’s worth of inventory without manual, item-by-item scanning. You can also use RFID and fixed readers for real-time tracking of assets as they move through processes or through different areas of your facilities.

Where can RFID be used?

RFID can be used in any application where you need to identify, locate and track products, assets or shipments. It’s often used in warehouse and retail stores to automate inventory and eliminate manual barcode scanning and cycle counts. It’s also used for traceability in manufacturing, allowing parts and materials to be tracked as they’re received, put into inventory, moved through your production process, becomes finished goods and leaves your facility.

What does it take to implement RFID?

RFID requires a significant investment, so it’s important to compare the value of your potential gains to the estimated cost of deployment. Most of our clients find that RFID generates a major return on investment, especially if they have high-value assets to track, are currently relying on manual cycle counts and inventory processes, or stand to gain better efficiency by using RFID-enabled automation and asset locating to streamline their operational processes.

To get a sense of RFID feasibility in your business, how it would work, and estimate your potential costs and return on investment, you can always reach out to our RFID experts at Snively.

By working with us to conduct an RFID assessment and evaluate your options, you can find out if RFID is right for you. And if it makes sense for your business, we can help you deploy industry-leading Zebra RFID readers, antennas and printers, which will help you achieve your goals, ensure your success, simplify deployment, and minimize the long-term costs of your solution.