solutions for supply chain safety, security and efficiency, today announced the availability of ProducTrak Compliance Edition (CE), an RFID tagging application for consumer product manufacturers, co-manufacturers and distributors. With ProducTrak CE, manufacturers affected by the trading partner requirements for RFID tagged product cases and pallets are able to streamline and simplify the tagging of shipments through the use of RFID tag labeling.
Several major retailers including Wal-Mart, Target, Albertson’s and most recently, Sam’s Club, are calling for suppliers to provide RFID-tagged products to gain better inventory visibility and increase on-shelf product availability, as well as improve security and assure less shrinkage. In January, Sam’s Club communicated several new RFID requirements and deadlines to suppliers. With over 580 stores and 47 million members in the US alone, its RFID tagging program will likely impact more locations, consumers, and products than any other initiative currently announced.
ProducTrak CE, which is founded on the Acsis xDDI platform for business process automation and device integration, meets the retailer requirements by leveraging the company’s extensive RFID and shop-floor automation capabilities. To date, Acsis has enabled 30 of the top 100 suppliers to Wal-Mart to meet their specific RFID and serialization enabled shipping requirements. Features of ProducTrak CE include:
- On-demand RFID label printing for cases and pallets
- Pre-configured processes for rapid deployment
- Full support for both RFID and barcode tagging
- Support for both workstation or handheld device initiation
- Support for Standalone or ERP Integrated deployment modes
- RFID number commissioning via Acsis EPC Manager or SAP AutoID Infrastructure
- Easily upgradeable to ProducTrak Enterprise Edition for evolving to large-scale rollouts across multi-line/multi-site environments
"Consumer product manufacturers are looking for a simple and easy way to comply with retailer RFID tagging programs," said Andre Pino, chief marketing officer, Acsis, Inc. "ProducTrak CE is an out-of-the-box, low-cost, customizable option for manufacturers to rapidly comply with the requirements that will not disrupt existing processes and work streams."
Acsis’ ProducTrak CE has been specifically designed for rapid compliance to trading partner requirements for RFID tagged products to improve supply chain management, product visibility and advanced shipment notification. It has been designed to support minimal investment strategies for compliance, also known as slap-n-ship strategies. ProducTrak CE is built from Acsis’ ProducTrak, a comprehensive track and trace solution that provides insight into distribution operations beyond retail requirements by automating supply chain execution, leading to improved product integrity, inventory management and product movement visibility, as well as minimized risk.
For more information, visit Acsis at http://www.acsisinc.com.