RFID in Action: Beaver Street Fisheries

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1 ROOM 6 - CASE STUDIES RFID in Action: Beaver Street Fisheries Speaker: Howard Stockdale Chief Technology Officer Beaver Street Fisheries

2 Jacksonville, Florida A Total Seafood Supplier From Around the World to You!

3 Company Overview RFID Goals and Challenges Development and Implementation Technology Used RFID Tags RFID ROI

4 Beaver Street Fisheries located in Jacksonville Florida is one of the seafood industries most innovative and diverse suppliers in the United States. From its humble beginnings in 1950 as a small retail fish market run by a mother with her two sons, Harry and Fred Frisch, to what is now a multi dimensional producer, importer, and distributor of frozen seafood inventorying from Alligator to Zander

5 Importer / Exporter Processor / Manufacturer Wholesale Distributor Frozen Seafood and Meats Only in the US

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7 Full Service Foods Distributor Processor / Manufacturer Wholesale and Retail Distributor Worlds Largest Warm Water Lobster Tail Processor

8 World Wide Import Model from 50+ Countries

9 BSF is not a top 100 Wal-Mart Supplier We volunteered (First of 37 companies)? 1 year and 1 month ahead of requirement WHY?

10 If you want to be in the game then you need to bring a bat and a ball.

11 Current Products being shipped with RFID Tags

12 What Goals did we Establish Up Front? Learn Learn Learn Compliance Improve our Business Processes Efficiency in RFID Label application Market our RFID abilities Integration / Automation more efficiency ROI Development Develop a Big Picture rollout plan Learn

13 First Steps Select Internal RFID Team Read the Trade Publications (lessons Learned) Hard Copy and Meet Weekly Sign up for the many Webinars that are available Involve RFID Integration Vendors Build Vendor and Integration Partnerships Partner with the University of Florida Start Early Be Proactive not Reactive Stay Positive and Focused Build Lab/Test Environment

14 Early Adoption Reality RFID - continual improvement process over the long haul No Best Practices Early RFID Labels were not the best 25%+ failure rates Pallet inner case read problems Tag read problems in general RFID Reader Speeds Fork Lift blind spots Technology evolving every few months (moving target)

15 RFID Challenges Achieve Compliance with multiple customers not just Wal-Mart Continue to search for and create ROI specific to our business Grow our business by leveraging RFID to offset the cost Frozen Seafood cases and pallets in -10 to -40 degree freezers Importing from our packers from over 50 different countries Catch weight inventory items and LPN generation Case to Pallet Aggregation Find Efficiency in Phase 1 Slap and Ship environment Get more efficient as we move forward with Next Phases Keep asking What If

16 RFID Testing/Development and Implementation Print RFID cases and Pallet tags in the lab Slap and Ship (Basic Compliance Phase 1) In-Line conveyor system Print & Apply (PAX) (Phase 2) WMS Integration R&D Development (Phase 3)

17 Hybrid RFID Labels vs. Plain RFID Labels 3 Labels per case or just 1?

18 Hybrid Labels 4x2 1/2 RFID BestPrint 4x6 RFID BestPrint 4x10 RFID BestPrint CornerWrap

19 Slap and Ship (Basic Compliance Phase 1) Minimize initial investment by making our lab portable RFID Station Mobile Symbol DC200 Portals

20 Generation 1 Mobile RFID Station

21 22 30 Monitor 14 x 11 x Keyboard Drawer 28 x 9 x 2 Shelf Antennae 18 x 8 x Recessed area at each end of station Front Monitor Generation 3 RFID Station 30 Side Printer x 2 20 x 11 x 16 Shelf Antennae AR400 UPS PC AR x 3 x 9 UPS 18 x 7 x 9 PC 18 x 7 x 17

22 Symbol DC-200/DC-400 Portal Readers

23 Initial Slap and Ship Flow Symbol DC200 Portal Freezer Out Door Symbol DC200 Portal Portable Slap and Ship Station Freezer In Door Pallet Inverter Shipping Docks Portable Slap and Ship Station RFID Labeled Pallet Unlabeled Pallet RFID Labeled Pallet RFID Labeled Pallet RFID Labeled Pallet

24 In-Line Conveyor System Print & Apply (PAX) Phase 2 Apply RFID labels while cases are traveling on conveyor Test Corner Wrap label application vs. 4x10 vs. two single 4x6 Better efficiency vs. stand alone Slap and Ship (No extra Step) Combine Human Readable requirements and make Hybrid Label Case Serialization back to the WMS Catch Weight back to the WMS Using Zebra R110 PAX for Print Engine In the process of selecting the applicator Vendor

25 Pallet - RP Conveyor Weight Scale Conveyor Pallet FP PAX Applicator Barcode Reader Wall Mounted PC with WMS Interface RFID Chip is encoded EAN-128 Bar Code is generated Each Case Serial number is transmitted captured by WMS

26 In-Line RFID PAX Production/Processing

27 In-Line RFID PAX Production/Processing Supports RFID production runs Supports non RFID production runs Supports EAN-128 Bar Coding

28 Receiving Process Automate receiving of Purchase Orders Shipping Process Triggering 810, 856 and BOL automatic generation Using the LPN to assume correct case counts Internal warehouses product tracking and movement (Visibility) Generate RFID labels with printers on the Internet (Bahamas, China Etc.) Reduction of Errors at Shipping and Receiving What Else? WMS Integration R&D Development Phase 3

29 WMS Integration R&D Development Phase 3 - Goals Greater efficiency in receiving, shipping and general inventory control Less people to hire as we scale our business Do more business with the same amount of people. Product traceability from point of origin to retail outlets Product temperature traceability Case and Pallet association at the WMS level Easy LPN generation

30 Tag Testing Results Some Tag designs are very Orientation Specific Inner case problem zones on pallets Inner cases of Grouper read better than cases of Red Snapper? Condensation on tags reduce readability Buffer integration on pallet Jacks, fork lifts and Cherry Pickers Tested many Class 1 and Class 0+ labels Tags hold up very well in the Freezers 99% read rates on Pallet tags 85% of RFID labels shipped are reconciled in Supply Chain Label converters are getting better at making labels

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32 Lab Portal Generation 1 Lab Portal Generation 2

33 Pallet testing in the Lab

34 RFID Team Sam Kalil Howard Stockdale Brigette Cruz Steve Wade Harry Frisch Jim O Brien Roger Denmark Brad Easter Bobbie Gaus Shaun Wilson

35 RFID PARTNERS

36 What's Next for Beaver Street s RFID Initiatives? Tag Printing via the Internet in Nassau Bahamas (import testing) Phase 2 PAX Inline Systems Continued Integration Development and Testing Continue to look for ways that RFID can make us more Efficient Warehouse Automation Continue to Learn and evaluate others RFID implementations Migrate to Gen 2 Tags and Hardware updates

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