Warehouse shipping process The warehouse shipping process
consists of the steps described as following:
& The operator uses forklift to load the boxes to pallets,
seal the boxes on the pallet with plastic films and then
store them at the shipping area. By passing through the
fixed RFID reader, the information in the tags is read,
compared, recorded, and finally transmitted to the
WMS.
& Once tags’ data are read by the fixed RFID reader, the
information is transmitted to the WMS and the reporting
procedure is completed simultaneously.
& One digit is used for confirming if the information of one
tag is read. “0” is set for unread and “1” as read. This
mechanism can avoid multiple reading in the shipping
process. Double checking can be done by handy reader.
When RFID technology is applied to the shipping process,
it changes the report key-in process from manual to
automatic. It took less than 1 s for the fixed RFID reader to
read the data from the tag on pallet or carton and transmit
them to the WMS immediately, resulting in an improvement
of 89 %.