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SmartDC Express - Sam's Club Compliance Solution
Sam's Club recently announced its EPC/RFID mandate requiring
shipments to its DeSoto, TX distribution center to comply by January
31, 2008 with follow on distribution centers requiring compliance by
October 31, 2008. Failure to meet compliance will now result in per
pallet charge-backs according to the Sam's Club mandate.
KeyTone's SmartDC Express Edition is a shrink-wrapped version of
SmartDC Enterprise Edition tailored to meet the needs of Sam's Club
RFID mandate. With SmartDC Express, Sam's Club suppliers can start
complying with the mandate in less than a day. SmartDC Express
full-featured shipping application allows users to import orders
easily from their existing WMS or ERP and fulfill the order by
printing and encoding RFID labels and verify the order with actual
shipment prior to shipment to Sam's Club.
| Which
edition of SmartDC is right for you? |
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SmartDC
Express Edition |
SmartDC Enterprise
Edition |
| Customer Type |
For customers who
recognize that RFID can help them improve overall
distribution supply chain efficiency, but would like to
take a phase wise approach by first implementing RFID for
retail compliance. They are looking for a solution that
will help them comply with the industry mandates now, but
would like to leverage their current investments later -
by having the flexibility to scale the solution beyond
compliance into other distribution processes. |
For customers who
want to gain real time visibility by capturing deviances
at each and every distribution process in real time and
empower users for better decision making by reporting key
operational metrics. Eliminate supply chain glitches by
enabling cross functional collaboration between various
distribution processes like receiving, put-away, cycle
count, assembly & kitting and shipping. |
| Shipment Economics |
Customers have less
number of mandated SKUs and the average pallet/case shipment
volume for those SKUs is small. The shipping lead time is in
days. |
Customers have large
number of SKUs and shipment volumes are high. If the shipping
lead times are short, then enterprise edition provides
scalability and manageability to handle large volumes in a short
time. |
| Process |
Supports only the
shipping process (required for RFID mandates) which allows
customers to print RFID labels to only those DCs that are
mandated, reconcile the actual shipment with orders and generate
ASN. |
Provides end-to-end
visibility from the time the goods are receipt till the time
they are shipped. Supports cross functional collaboration
between various distribution processes like receiving, put-away,
cycle count, assembly & kitting, shipping and dock
management. |
| Visibility |
Out-of-the-box reports
provides insights into the shipping process and actual shipments. |
Inventory, Performance
and Order Visibility dashboard provides real time view of every
activity in the warehouse. The enterprise edition has 40+
reports that helps you measure your KPIs and make decisions. |
| RFID Infrastructure |
Supports RFID printers
and readers from various manufacturers. Express edition is limited
to five (5) devices |
Supports RFID printers,
forklift readers, handhelds, sensors and PLCs. Enterprise
edition supports unlimited devices and can be integrated with
control systems like conveyors, applicators and sortation
systems. |
| Order Integration |
Order are received
through scheduled import from your existing order management
system |
Order are received in
real time with tighter integration to your 3rd party system -
providing you with order level and inventory level visibility in
real time |
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