Shipcom Wireless has announced that the company completed a record number of RFID projects in 2004, ahead of the WalMart mandate.
Initial projects started off as ‘slap and ship’ tail-end RFID integration projects. The customers realised the tremendous ROI they achieved by integrating the RFID data gathered across various stages of the manufacturing and supply-chain process. The open-end connectivity of Shipcom's software CATAMARAN® not only enabled quick integration of data to ERP and legacy systems, but also had very fast and robust transaction response times during operation.
Shipcom's customers include a wide spectrum of companies from manufacturing, logistics, to consumer goods and transportation industries, many of whom are suppliers to WalMart.
“After the Pilot projects, the customers have a better idea of what they want,” said Abeezar Tyebji, CEO of Shipcom Wireless. “Also, our vast experience in working with real, high volume, large scale integration projects differentiates us from our competitors. Our customers who implemented pilots are coming back for full scale deployments.”
Tatung is contract manufacturer for personal and computer related products to Wal-Mart. IT director, Chris Chu, said that Tatung has expanded the use of RFID case tagging process from one site to two sites with multi-production lines.
Shipcom has helped setup RFID Competency Centres in Taiwan, California, and Puerto Rico, and continues to work with several universities worldwide. Shipcom is also partnered with the University of Houston for Public Safety & Homeland Security matters in conjunction with Houston Infocomm Technology Centre.
Shipcom made history by being one of the first vendors to process the RFID tags of the first three products shipped to WalMart that meet the current case and pallet tagging mandate
