Ahead of implementing RFID, Cesar Castillo, Inc. reviewed its business practices and production flow and learned valuable lessons ahead of the launch. CCI’s business development director Dr. Rafael Moreno, who led the company’s RFID implementation, shares some of those lessons learned with the following observations.
“It’s very hard to redesign traditional warehouse operations for RFID,” he says. “Typically, with warehouse systems, your menus and screens and programs are all built around human-centered transactions. With RFID, you have to throw away those transaction concepts to get the most benefit out of this technology. We’ve had to compromise what we do with RFID and what we can afford to do in transforming our systems.
“One issue that everyone eventually faces is this: If you use the same process as before, you won’t derive all the benefits of RFID. When you start to understand what RFID can do, that’s when you realize how far behind you are at reaping its benefits.
