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OATSystems Announces RFID Asset Tracking and Work-in-Process Solution HP and Tesco Using New Solution to Error-proof Deliveries and Increase Supply Chain and Manufacturing Efficiencies WALTHAM, Mass. – Sept. 17, 2007 – OATSystems today announced its Asset Tracking and Work-in-Process Solution, which is available immediately. The RFID solution, which has already been implemented at a number of customer sites, including Hewlett-Packard Brazil and Tesco, enables industrial, aerospace and automotive manufacturers as well as retailers to improve asset visibility and utilization, enhance work-in-process manufacturing, increase supply chain efficiencies, reduce shrink, and error-proof deliveries. Unlike custom code development, OAT’s Asset Tracking solution incorporates the industry’s best practices and proven use cases, enabling organizations to deploy solutions in less time, with less risk and with less cost. In addition, customers can use the solution’s high-level graphical tooling to quickly and easily create, modify and adapt processing to meet their specific needs. Whether a business needs to track assets or gain visibility into work-in-process operations, OAT can integrate data from heterogeneous tag sources including passive, active and sensory tags. This integration gives business users visibility into inventory and asset movement throughout their operations and manufacturing processes from geographically dispersed facilities and across an array of trading partners. “OATSystems has leveraged its broad RFID experience and industry leading market position to offer a dynamic asset tracking and work-in-process solution,” said Drew Nathanson, RFID practice director for Venture Development Corporation, a technology market research and strategy firm. “This product addresses key primary end user requirements such as rapid and simple customization and integration, scalability, and mitigation of investment and technological risks.” Asset tracking continues to be a costly challenge that virtually all manufacturing companies face. According to a study conducted this year by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, businesses’ total logistics costs—that is, transportation, inventory carrying, and order administration costs—have skyrocketed more than 64 percent in the past decade. Furthermore, in an Aberdeen report titled “RFID-Enabled Logistics Asset Management: Improving Capital Utilization, Increasing Availability, and Lowering Total Operational Costs," almost half of respondents reported that logistics asset operations consume 5% or more of corporate revenue and almost one-fifth say it consumes more than one-tenth of revenue. Businesses use OAT’s Asset Tracking Solution to reduce these costs and improve operations. OAT’s solution provides support for the entire RFID process from tagging to data capture to automation and error proofing of business processes to analysis. The OAT solution also enables users to gain deep insights with a suite of analyses and reports that include asset timeline utilization, visual track and trace, historical analysis, real-time visibility into the assets and their contents, and status and exception reports to highlight process anomalies. The solution is available immediately. “With more than 200 RFID deployments on five continents, OAT has gained substantial experience that has been incorporated into this solution delivering proven use cases that work out-of-the-box,” said Michael George, CEO of OATSystems. HP Brazil Reduces Printer Inventory
by 17 Percent HP also uses the system to create product “DNA” to save unique information on the RFID tag for each printer. By saving information such as install-by dates and testing results, HP tracks and identifies printers returned for repairs under warranty. Having a full record of the printer’s history has enabled HP to improve its repair service and allowed it to return printers to customers much more efficiently. Today, the OAT solution is supporting nine RFID-enabled manufacturing and product completion lines producing over three million products annually. “You can’t measure the return on investment in the traditional way,” said Marcelo Pandini, manager of RFID and Business Development at HP Brazil. “You can’t presume a savings because you don’t know what you don’t know. With RFID, we have learned that we can make our operations better.” Tesco Error-Proofs
Deliveries to its Stores “OATSystems has given us visibility into our supply chain that was not possible before,” said Chris Brocklesby, director of UK IT, Tesco. “It has enabled us to see where and when delivery errors occur and better understand how this impacts stores and therefore customers.” Distribution Partners About OATSystems, Inc. CONTACT: All companies and products listed herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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