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Stefan Koch
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INTRODUCTION -RFID BASICS -RFID IN RETAIL SUPPLY CHAINS THE METRO GROUP -COMPANY OVERVIEW -METROS INTEREST IN RFID THE FUTURE STORE INITIATIVE PREPARING FOR THE RFID ROLLOUT MOVING TO CASE TAGGING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION
RFID BASICS
RFID belongs to the group of automatic identification technologies Purpose to identify people and objects RFID: Radio Frequency Identification Technology
THE FUTURE STORE INITIATIVE Store Initiative(FSI) Metro launched the Future
Objective was setting global standards for retailing. By early 2003, 40 other partners from IT, consumer goods, consulting services and information industries had joined the FSI. FSI is testing new technologies that will affect regular customers
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HAND-HELD COMPUTERS With bar code scanners help employees call up data on store and warehouse inventory
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CURRENT PROCESS FLOW WITHOUT RFID FOR THE METRO DC AND FOR THE EXTRA STORE
From the warehouse or DC: the pallets were sent by truck to Metro-owned DCs or directly to extra stores. At the Metro DCs: pallets were normally repacked into so-called mixed pallets and then sent to the stores. At the Metro store: pallets were usually placed in the backroom. Store employees opened the pallets and transferred the cases to the selling floor. Cases that could not be placed on the shelves were returned to the backroom and stored there until shelf space became available.
WITH RFID
USING PALLET-LEVEL TAGGING TO IMPROVE TRUCK LOADING PROCESS AT THE MANUFACTURERS WAREHOUSE
With RFID Warehouse personnel would not need to supervise the entire loading process The manufacturer could save 10 minutes of supervising time for each of the 15 trucks leaving warehouse every day
The picker would no longer have to manually enter the number of cases picked Metro estimated savings of 4 min. for each of the 1300 pallets picked every day, a potential cost savings of 430,000 A signal would indicate when a picker picks a product that does not belong to the delivery or picks too many or too few cases With reduced picking errors, no need to check the pallets saving 75 minutes per pallet
MOVING TO CASETAGGING
A lot more involvement from both the manufacturers and Metro Manufacturers have to purchase more tags and make process changes inside their plants Numerous changes would have to be made to Metros IT systems like data storage