How does RFID enter WMS and play a role?
With the rapid rise of the personalized market, there has been a "diverse and small amount" change in warehousing and logistics. This change has further increased the difficulty of cargo management.
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Traditional warehousing management models generally have shortcomings such as huge inventory of materials, difficulty in tracking materials, low capital and material turnover efficiency, high labor costs, and backward logistics management information and methods, which can no longer adapt to the new warehousing management needs. Therefore, the introduction of RFID technology to open up warehousing data flow and realize the visualization of warehousing management has become a breakthrough direction for digital warehousing.
In practical applications, the integration of RFID into WMS (Warehouse Management System) needs to face many problems, which can be summarized as the overall integration of RFID and WMS, hardware integration, middleware integration, and application integration. In this process, software, communication, and equipment are indispensable. If the obstacles are not well broken through, the system risks becoming a vase decoration.
In general, the entry of RFID into WMS can bring three benefits: optimizing the allocation of warehousing resources; realizing precise warehouse operation control; and real-time and effective transparent transmission of warehousing data streams.
So in what aspects does RFID enter WMS?
The first is the management of goods in and out of the warehouse. For the goods or pallets in and out of the warehouse, real-time data monitoring is realized and uploaded to the backend of the data management center. The goods or pallets have RFID tags to realize the regional division of the storage space, and can realize the positioning and rapid inventory of the goods.
At any time, you can use the handheld or mobile inventory machine to check the goods in real time to ensure that the accounts and items are consistent.
WMS is not an independent system. It can communicate with MES (Manufacturing Execution System), EPR (Enterprise Resource Planning), and WCS (Customer System) through interfaces. Therefore, the RFID+WMS warehouse management system should fully consider the needs of future management development in terms of equipment configuration, technical application, and software system.
