Best Practices for RFID, RTLS, & WSN Technology

Securing the Supply Chain

Some people don't understand how critical it is to secure their supply chain. After all, for most companies it's not as if lives will be put on the line if their competitors get unauthorized access to the supply chain, right?

But securing your supply chain is critical. If you don't, a competitor can exploit weaknesses and steal some of your customers. Just ask yourself, what would happen if one of your competitors were able to access your prices by using one of your customers' systems. They could set their prices lower than yours and grab part of your market. Companies need to secure their own systems and ensure their trading partners are doing so as well. Before you roll-out RFID throughout your supply chain, you need to understand the potential security risks and how to reduce vulnerabilities. After all, your confidential information is only as secure as the weakest link.

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10 Ways to Improve Productivity, Reduce Costs and Enhance Customer Satisfaction in Manufacturing

Executive Summary

Omnitrol Networks believes that manufacturers will start moving their IT priorities from the back end to the shop floor, to enable a much higher return in business value and business optimization opportunities. So far, companies have spent millions of dollars investing in manufacturing and supply chain visibility systems with very little results in productivity improvements and costs reduction.

If, as the belief goes, the shop floor is where value is created, then shop floor intelligence is at the heart of enterprise intelligence, and supply chain intelligence. A myriad of technologies exists to gather shop floor intelligence (e.g., RFID, RTLS, remote sensors); but the classic enterprise backbone architecture is not suited to gather that intelligence.

What industry requires is a vastly simplified, more plug-and-play method of both gathering shop floor intelligence and sharing that intelligence among partners. This white paper presents how that intelligence gathering can be simplified, and in turn, how that capability can be leveraged to improve productivity, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.

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