RFID Software
TrueVUE™ Essentials
With out-of-box RFID workflows and reports, TrueVUE™ Essentials™ allows organizations
to begin realizing business value from RFID immediately. Without requiring the creation
of any customized applications, Essentials provides the “essential” tools to get
any business on the road to ROI, with workflows spanning key areas including receiving,
returns, re-stocking, misplaced inventory correction, product searches, expiry monitoring,
and more.
With this vision in mind, Essentials offers out-of-box functionality across multiple
areas where ROI can readily be achieved from RFID, including:
On-Floor Availability
A series of operational reports designed to maximize the on-floor availability of
RFID tagged products - driving revenues up and increasing customer satisfaction.
- Misplaced items reporting.
- Replenishment needs reporting.
- Live inventory reporting.
- Inventory search and location reporting.
- Out of stock reporting.
- Interactive HTML, PDF, and CSV (comma delimited) versions of all reports.
- Scheduled e-mail delivery or reports on-demand.
- Automated threshold alerting.
- Filter by multiple report criterion in interactive mode.
- Integrate customer-specific data elements into reports.
Tag Printing and Encoding
Simple workflows to allow any user to easily write tags using RFID printers or Vue’s
IntelliPad™ device.
- Print tags 1 or many at a time.
- Integrates with TrueVUE™ Commissioning™ to ensure unique RFID numbers used.
- Supports popular printers from numerous “best-in-breed” manufacturers.
- Supports writing of tags on the desktop with Vue’s IntelliPad™ device.
- Supports EPC Gen 1 & 2 standards.
- Control which companies a station can write tags for.
- Writes to multiple formats, including: giai-64, giai-96, gid-96, grai-64, grai-96
raw, sgln-64, sgln-96, sgtin-64, sgtin-96, sscc-64, and sscc-96.
Shipping / Association workflows
Associate items to containers and generate Advanced Shipping Notices (ASNs) for
reduction in shipping errors and facilitation of downstream receiving.
- Associate individual items to cases, and cases to pallets.
- Generate electronic ASN (Advanced Shipping Notice).
- Flexibility to use either an RFID tag or a standard barcode to identify the container
(case or pallet).
- Generate ASN reports by date range.
- Generate ASN reports by container ID.
Receiving Workflows
Workflows that streamline receiving processes and confirm the receipt of expected
products, reducing costs associated with labor and shortages, and providing an electronic
proof of delivery.
- Automatically or manually receive items, cases, and pallets.
- Flexibility to receive at dock doors, tabletop stations, countertops and other locations.
- Validate received goods against an electronic Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN) or
undertake a “blind receive”.
- Mechanisms by which an ASN can be retrieved include: reading an individual item
within the shipment and back-solving to the ASN; reading a case or pallet RFID tag
to get the ASN; or scanning a case or Pallet barcode to get the ASN.
- Validates quantity of each item received against the expected quantity.
- Validates the unique tag number against the expected number, protecting against
counterfeit items.
- Intuitive visual feedback is provided to the user.
- Historical reports document previous receipts.
Product Returns Workflow
Expedite return activities and reduce operational costs.
- These workflows provide the same capabilities as are found in the shipping and associating
workflows, with the exception that in this case the direction of the shipment is
reversed (i.e. retail location to a DC, a DC to a manufacturing site, etc).
Seasonal / Perishable Item Management
Reporting and Alerting tools to always know the exact status of items that have
a limited life.
- Reports indicating expired items that are still in inventory.
- Reports for nearly expired items (as defined by a date range provided by the user).
- Alerts automatically sent by email when expiry conditions are met.
- Interactive HTML, PDF, and CSV versions of all reports.
- Scheduled e-mail delivery or reports on-demand.
- Filter by multiple report criterion in interactive mode.
Attribute Editing
Create database associations from any type of data to a unique RFID number.
- Assign and edit various attributes that are associated with a unique RFID tag
number through a database association.
- Non-tagged items can be traced through
an association with tagged items.
- Flexibility to assign and edit standard Vue
fields as well as customer-defined fields.
- Historical reporting capabilities track
all edits that have been made, with an attached date/time stamp.