What is worth a tag?
Almost anything can carry one. The useful question is which things cost your client time or money when nobody knows where they are.
The usual answers.
Equipment people go looking for
Trolleys, pallet jacks, tools, test gear, wheelchairs. Shared equipment drifts, and time spent hunting for it is time not spent using it.
Stock on its way through
Pallets and cages moving from receiving to storage to dispatch. Dwell time per zone shows where they wait.
People
Staff and visitors carrying a tag: who is on which floor, and who has gone into an area they should not be in.
Things that must stay cold
A sensor tag reports temperature along with its position, so a cold room and what is in it are watched together.
Equipment that leaves the site
Trailers, generators and implements, followed by beacon when a vehicle takes them out.
Items counted one by one
Stock, tools and returnable containers carrying RFID labels, read as they pass a door or a dock.
What it tells your client that a count does not.
A stock count says what was there on the day somebody counted. Tracking says where things are between counts, how long they stayed and which way they went.
That is the difference your client pays for: fewer searches, shorter waits, and an answer when someone asks what happened.
- Where it is now
- How long it has been there
- Where it was before
- Who was told, and when
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