Translate your data into critical business information
The move towards auto-identification technology in industry is being led by the increasing numbers of companies who require suppliers to participate in their RFID agendas. Monitoring your inventory and assets requires the gathering and translating of high levels of data. We can help you develop your RFID strategy to improve asset management and audit trails, and monitor your business operations in realtime.
Leading the way to improved asset management
We are market leaders in delivering affordable, scalable, and customised asset management services – including RFID solutions design, implementation, and management. Our RFID solutions have garnered industry-wide praise, including:
Microsoft EMEA RAD Awards 2006: Our Intelligent Label project for Marks and Spencer’s clothing department earned the solution the Enterprise Collaboration Award.
Quality in Construction Awards 2006 (sponsored by Construction News): The BT Asset Management solution, developed for Select Plant Hire Ltd., was short-listed in the ‘Innovation through the use of IT’ category.
We have also implemented BT Asset Management solutions within our own supply chain, enabling reduced losses and the achievement of 100 percent process compliance.
Delivering the RFID assets for improved visibility and control
BT Asset Management is a managed solution that includes the development of a business case to identify your organisation’s requirements. Installation is project-managed by our experts, who provide ongoing maintenance and support upon completion.
BT Asset Management solutions can be tailored to your specific industry and business requirements. Your solution may include:
Asset identification
- Business consultation to identify your assets and areas of the supply chain that will benefit most from RFID tagging and tracking.
Data capture
We work with the most appropriate vendors to select the optimum hardware.
- Wear-resistant RFID tags and readers that function in challenging environments. BT Asset Management can incorporate hybrid technologies – including RFID, barcoding, and other auto-ID technologies – in one solution.
- Our global positioning system (GPS) enables location detection of your assets and in-transit stock.
- Despatch and delivery reports to keep you informed about the status of your assets.
Data management
- A platform to manage the high levels of data generated by RFID and other auto-identification signals. By filtering through the data, our platform provides you with intelligent business information and a live overview of your operations.
Intelligent labels record improvement at M&S
A key challenge for any industry is having the right stock available to customers when they want it. Marks and Spencer needed a solution capable of integrating with its existing applications to improve and monitor its clothing stock management.
Our solution included the:
- Creation and maintenance of a database of Marks and Spencer’s global suppliers.
- Sourcing and provision of intelligent RFID labels and mobile readers.
- Management of high levels of data to produce realtime business intelligence.
Making realtime savings by managing your assets
BT Asset Management solutions interact with your current IT applications to enable you to view business operations in realtime. By providing accurate and timely data BT Asset Management can help you:
- Improve delivery accuracy, minimise returns and surplus stock, and reduce inventory errors.
- Identify process bottlenecks to enhance warehouse efficiency and reduce labour costs.
- Speed up transportation turnaround times by analysing the contents of entire stacks or containers simultaneously.
- Reduce shrinkage and loss of mobile assets.
- Squeeze trapped capital, in the form of excess inventory, out of the supply chain.
- Reduce maintenance with wear-resistant hardware that functions in hostile and hazardous conditions.
- Benefit from flexible payment plans that help you reduce upfront costs and budget for the longer-term.
Contact your BT Account Manager to find out how you can accurately track your assets with live business control.