Xterprise Customers' Capacity Exceeds Five Million RFID Tags
Over 5,000,000 cases a year labeling capacity is in place and growing with Xterprise customers. A new study shows the demand for increased capacity and data aggregation will continue.
Dallas (PRWEB) September 12, 2005 -- Xterprise Incorporated, an industry
leading solutions provider, consultant and compliance expert for the "RFID
Enabled Supply Chain" announced its customers have passed the benchmark capacity
of 5,000,000 RFID labels a year.
Xterprise officials say installed
capacity will soon exceed 15,000,000 RFID labels a year. Installed capacity will
continue to rise because of upgrades the company has made in its XARM™ 3000 and
4000 solutions, and because of recent project wins at some of the world's
largest retail suppliers. Most Xterprise customers are using RFID in retailer
supply chain logistics for case and pallet tags. The company said a number of
customers are expanding capacity by upgrading their XARM™ solutions to achieve
higher quantities and higher levels of automated performance.
"The XARM
enhancements provide a number of performance and price advantages over other
alternatives," said Tom Abraham, Director of Solutions at Xterprise. "By working
closely with our partners Alien, Zebra Technologies, Apriso, Weber and DPI, we
achieved a 250 percent increase in throughput over our already best-in-class
solutions. As retailers expand tagging requirements, we will continue to provide
higher capacity and add more value by using the number of the RFID data
aggregation and data exchange features that are in our solutions."
The
company provides RFID infrastructure capacity with it's low volume solutions of
XARM 1000 & 2000 (manual and software integrated slap 'n ship) and medium to
high volume offerings with its XARM™ 3000 (conveyor automated tag and label
placement) and the XARM™ 4000 in-line conveyor manufacturing solutions. These
solutions can be software integrated into practically any WMS or ERP solutions
that are being run by its customers.
The company stated it expects the
market will require greatly increased tagging capacity over the next 12 months,
with the market growing by 500 percent.
"We are now entering a phase
where focus in RFID infrastructure solutions is on automation and maturity
rather than on physics," Abraham said. "It can now be said that both manual and
high speed application of RFID tags on cases is both technically proven and
effective in meeting major retailer's mandates."
As a result, Xterprise
is focusing internal investments on leading the industry in the automation and
information exchange trend.
In addition, the company announced
completion of a customer benchmarking study on RFID tagging. The study showed
only a few retail suppliers who invested modestly in RFID tagging and data
aggregation will be able to reduce their overall cost of compliance as expanding
RFID tagging volumes are required. The study showed RFID automation and
integration of data are critical elements in RFID economics. Xterprise
benchmarking also showed many retail suppliers underestimated the value of
adding some automation to their initial tagging solution and they underestimated
the importance of deploying a solution that can effectively use RFID information
from the retailer. The combination of these two elements is essential to
minimizing cost and maximizing benefit for a positive ROI. Most companies who
initially chose manual processes are finding the labor costs and the lack of
data visibility are a hindrance to scaling RFID, and as a result are unable to
extract supply chain value from their RFID implementations.
"We have a
significant amount of experience understanding the nuances of these systems and
managing the EPC data that they create, to enabled demand signaling decisions in
the future," added Dan Ahearn, Vice President of Services for Xterprise.
"Putting tags on boxes becomes the initial table stakes. You have to be able to
do it reliably and efficiently, but as the requirements continue to scale upward
from the retailers and you have to be able to support the increased tag
requirements, the data analytics and the data exchange requirements that enable
the ROI's we are building."
About Xterprise - - Xterprise Incorporated
develops RFID supply chain solutions and has been chosen by the many of the
worlds most respected supply chains and fastest growing companies as their RFID
solution provider. Xterprise blends best practices, supply chain processes,
material handling, RFID system hardware and application software, enterprise
systems integration, data analytics, demand signaling applications and remote
solution support.
Xterprise works with other RFID & Supply Chain
industry leaders, including Alien Technology, Zebra Technology, Symbol, Apriso,
Red Prairie, TrueDemand, DPI, Weber, and others. Stop by their booth at EPC
Global this week and discuss with one of their professionals how they can help
your company.
Xterprise is headquartered in Carrollton, TX and currently
serves customers in Asia, Europe and North America. For more information, visit
www.xterprise.com or call 972-690-9460, ext. 300.
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