Designing Your RFID Solution

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Designing Your RFID Solution

Building scenarios and conducting trade-off analysis

Harold Boeck,Ygal Bendavid (UQAM, Academia RFID)

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Your presenter

Harold Boeck

Ygal Bendavid

BAA, MSc.A., Ph.D.

Professors at the UQAM

Co-Founders of ACADEMIA RFID

RFID certified

Preconference seminar Agenda

“Warehouse & Inventory Mgt in the RFID Supply Chain”

• 11:30 Linking RFID to Inventory Management Best Practices

• 12:15 Targeting the Correct RFID Technology for the Right Project

• 13:45 Key Steps in Building an Inventory-Management RFID Solution: Build Your Own RFID Portal

• 14:30 Designing Your RFID Solution

• 15:30 Building Your RFID Business Case • 16:15 Preconference Seminar Ends

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Context of the presentation

There is various way to deliver a solution

RFID is not just about tags and readers

There is various way to deliver an RFID solution

• RFID a multi-layer system

• Comprising different hardware and

software technologies

• Integrated with your existing enterprise's

back-end systems (WMS)

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Objective of the Presentation

• Moving from ideas to projects: a PLC

perspective

• Building different RFID scenarios

• Assessing the impacts of business scenarios

on the RFID solution's design

• Conducting trade-off analysis

Project Front end Project definition & Planning RFID BPR (As-Is) RFID BPR (To Be) Project follow up & Operations

Source: Ygal Bendavid, Academia RFID, RFID PRO 2010

POC & Pilot Design development

Implementation

Moving from ideas to projects

RFID Project life cycle

RFID vision/strategy

Explored in “Linking RFID

to Inventory Management

Best Practices”

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Moving from idea/Concept to projects!

Requirements definition and Management

• Req. Def.& Mgt. “as a necessary step for the successful delivery of

systems and software projects (such as RFID!)

• The impact of a poorly expressed requirement can be devastating;

- domino effect that leads to time-consuming rework, inadequate deliveries and budget overruns.

Adapted from Tavassoli D (2009), Requirements management White paper June, IBM

– I want to have talkinginventory!

– A smartwarehouse! – Intelligent processes! – Autonomouspallets!

Moving from idea to projects!

(=) some existing models! The (next Gen) Stage-Gate Process

Source: http://www.stage-gate.com

Conceptual and operational roadmap for moving a new-product project from idea to launch

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Moving from idea to projects

Supporting the writing of an RFID project proposal

Hood et al., 2008 - Requirement management, chap 6, Project Management interface “(…) link user requirements to

system requirements and system requirements to design

requirements (…) to work packages, to resources and budgets, to milestones and deliverables”…

Project Front end Project definition & Planning RFID BPR (As-Is) RFID BPR (To Be) Project follow up & Operations

Source: Ygal Bendavid, Academia RFID, RFID PRO 2010

Implementation

Project Definition and planning

In the RFID Project life cycle

•Project Definition/requirements •Project initial planning & comm. •High level Business case / value •Project / Pilot site pre-selection • Team building & Education

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Project Definition and planning

Using classic tools for RFID WM projects!

Project definition & Planning RFID BPR (As-Is) RFID BPR (To Be) Project follow up & Operations

Source: Ygal Bendavid, Academia

Implementation

Business Process Reengineering

In the RFID Project life cycle

•Benchmark analysis & Re-design processes (scenarios)

•Project (Re)Scoping, and revised planning

•Business case & scenarios sensitivity analysis

•Impact analysis & trade-off

•Operations & process analysis (models) / Performance assessment

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15 Source: Subramanian et al., 1999, BPR: a consolidated Methodology,Proceedings of The 4th

Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering Theory, Applications and Practice

The RFID Project life cycle

Leverage on (the 20 years old) BPR knowledge

Data analysis & opportunities identifications

Assess the “As Is” processes & performance

P la n n in g D e liv e r S o u rc in g Manufacturer Activities Assembling Distributors Activities

Storage & distribution

Retailers Activities

…

Source: Bendavid Y (2011)- Academia RFID – RFID PRO E-mail

BOL Truck Arrived Go to office For BOL validation

Truck Driver BOL OK BOL Not OK Assign one Ware. Employee

Approve BOL & Assign one Dock Door Dock Door Assigned Employee Assigned Office Associate Move Truck to Ass. Dock Door Truck Driver WMS Synchronize Info. (SAP vs RFID Terminal) WMS BOL Info. Synchronized RFID Readers

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Data analysis & opportunities identifications

Data gathering of the “As Is” processes & performance

1. Whatare the current processes ? 2. Where and howare they carried out ?

3. Whoexecutes them ?

4. Where are items identifiedin the processes (GTIN/GLN)?

5. Whyidentification is necessary for these processes ?

6. What informationis key about each item?

7. What materialsmove into and out of the processes ? 8. etc

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Data analysis &

Sol. Development

Design “to Be” business & technological Scenarios

P la n n in g D e liv e r S o u rc in g Manufacturer Activities Assembling Distributors Activities

Retailers Activities

ASN ERP Goods Received Read RFID Tags … Communicate EPCs EPCs (8) Manage EPCs & root to

ERP Module Receive EPCs vs. ASN/adjusted PO … …. …. … …. XML file (EPCs) Warehouse Clerk RFID EPCs Captured RFID EPCs communicated Middleware RFID EPCs Rooted

Confirm the receipt of goods Unload Goods Truck ready to unload PO

Source: Adapted from Bendavid Y. (2012). Int. J. of Automated Identification Technology (IJAIT), Vol. 1, No. 1

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Data analysis &

Sol. Development

Some Basic Questions to support the Design of the “to Be”

business & technological Scenarios

• Which products? Level of tagging?

• Whatactivities? Processes?

• Whatfunctionalities? Need to rewrite? Security?

• Which capabilitiesrequired for the tags/readers?

• Withwho to share the info? Why?

• Where will items be identified ?

• How Muchproducts (tags) at a time?

• Whatis the reading/writing distance? where? • Whatis the speed?

• Will the be process automated? • etc

Data analysis & Sol. Development

Trade off on "business" & technological Scenarios

ASN ERP Goods Received Read RFID Tags … Communicate EPCs EPCs (8) Manage EPCs & root to

ERP Module Receive EPCs vs. ASN/adjusted PO … …. …. … …. XML file (EPCs) Warehouse Clerk RFID EPCs Captured RFID EPCs communicated Middleware RFID EPCs Rooted

Confirm the receipt of goods

Unload Goods

…

PO

Source: Adapted from Bendavid Y. (2012). Int. J. of Automated Identification Technology (IJAIT), Vol. 1, No. 1

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Data analysis & Sol. Development

(Extended) Impact analysis & trade-off/ Sensitivity Analysis

Source: Bendavid, Academia RFID – RFID PRO 2008

• RFID Technologies

– RFID tags & sensors

– RFID readers & Antennas

– RFID printers & appli.

– RFID Middleware • Wireless Network – WLAN to WWAN – Wi-fi, Zegbee9 • Enterprise Information Systems

– ERP, WMS, LES, MES

– PRM, SCM, PLM

• E-Commerce Techno.

– Private IOS

– Electronic market places

RFID Technologies Wireless Technologies Enterprise Information Systems E-Commerce Technologies

Select the RFID technology for your case

RFID system requirements & Trade off analysis Example:

Tags Requirements

Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option n

Approximate Price (USD) Life Cycle

Read / Write Range Read / Write Speed Data Capacity

Operating Temperatures Shape and Size (Form factor)

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Designing an RFID solution

How can you track this forklift? Track transactions related to this forklift?

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Designing an RFID solution

Building scenarios

Experimentation of designed scenarios and Trade off analysis • Ex: using different type of readers (Stationary, Mobile, Portable, Mounted)

Source: RFID Academia Laboratory

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Select the appropriate AIDC/RFID

technologies for your specific case?

Passive RFID Tag (Pallet Level)

Passive RFID Tag (Case Level) RFID Tag (Item Package Level)

UID Data Matrix (Item Level)

Active RFID Tag (Container Level)

Source: Adapted from (1) GS1 Standards in the Healthcare Supply Chain and (2) 2. Defense Acquisition University February, 2006

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Requirements for Each Layer

The Right Technology for the Right Application

Layer 5: Movement Vehicle

Layer 4: Container

Layer 3: Unit Load

Layer 2: Transport Unit

Layer 1: Packaging

Layer 0: Item

Barcode

• Long range (300+ft) • High metal environment • Omni directional • Real Time Assured Data • Sensor / Security enabled • Affordable

• Line of sight • Global location

• Short range (3-15ft) • Lower cost tags • Read/write • Non line of sight

• Very short range (1ft) • Ultra Low cost • Read only Barcode Passive RFID Active RFID GPS/LBS Cost Functionality

Source: Adapted from Casto (Dow Chemical ) & Shannon (SAVI/Lockheed Martin), AIDC 100 - “Evolution of an RFID Revolution” October 15th 2008

Thank you!

UQAM,School of business 315 Ste-Catherine est Local R-3570 Montréal (Québec) Canada H2X 3X2 Tel: 514-987 3000 (x 2429) Web site: www.mantech.uqam.ca

Academia RFID 9916 Côte de liesse, Montréal QC Canada H8T 1A1

Tel: 514 631 8282 – Fax: 631 9696 Web site: http://www.rfidacademia.com

Ygal Bendavid

[email protected]

Harold Boeck

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