Digital Labels' Supply Chain Knock-On Effect

The supply chain is experiencing a surge in the number of goods moving across the global supply channels. While the number is increasing rapidly, the demand is being driven by rising consumer expectations. Moreover, supply chain managers are pursuing comprehensive transparency by acquiring skills that allow them to track each parcel's whereabouts at every stage of its journey, from source to customer. Using technology to determine package placement is now a consumer-facing focus. However, AWL India being one of the leading logistics and warehousing companies in India makes it easier for companies to track their shipments at every stage of the supply chain.

Furthermore, it is essential to have technology and procedures that will enable resilience not only to manage the present supply chain situation, but also to prepare for the next set of issues. Also, ensuring an accurate chain of custody is critical to satisfying rising customer expectations for timely and accurate delivery while also maintaining brand authenticity. In addition, proving chain of custody has growing regulatory implications in fields such as medicines and hazardous materials transportation.

Introduction Of Digital IDs In The Industry

We at AWL India firmly believe that a digitally connected supply chain is helping the sector solve several difficulties. If each object will have a digital ID at the source, then it is most likely to have an impact all the way to the end user. Using intelligent labels such as radio frequency identification (RFID) at the source with all the product details will make it easier to track the product at every step of the supply chain. As the product passes through the supply chain, the RFID label serves as a trigger for automation. Moreover, there are several advantages of automating the process, including the increased speed and accuracy. Because RFID labels do not require a line of sight, items can be scanned passively using automated reading technology such as a tunnel put along a conveyor belt or an overhead reader over a dock entrance.

As a consequence, a proper record of each item's origin and route is created as it passes through the supply chain. However, because the verification process is initiated by the digital ID at every touchpoint, digital IDs on every product immediately address the rising number and complexity of supply chain partners by allowing all operators to have complete transparency of what's arriving inbound and going outbound. Therefore, using RFID in warehouse benefits both the warehouse that receives and sends orders, as well as the shippers who must account for what goes onto trucks and what goes on the road.

Furthermore, a retail business has exact product count and delivery date assumptions, allowing them to prepare for activities ranging from stocking and replenishment to advertising and promotions. Whether incoming and outgoing operations use intelligent labels for parcels or pallets, access to the precise data they provide is critical to simplifying and automating supply chain processes and also contributes to the smart warehouse solutions. This data becomes increasingly crucial at each consecutive step downstream since any network fault will be compounded.

Impact On The Value Of Brand

With having an impact on the overall supply chain operations, the brands are realising that their supply chains, like merchandising and marketing, are increasingly consumer-facing activities. These activities can be resolved with these RFID rags that can act as a digital ID of the product. Transparency and documentation of chain of custody are becoming increasingly critical as customers expect it. However, RFID tags can make it easier as they are easy to track and the movements are recorded at every step of the supply chain. Moreover, the ongoing rise of e-commerce generates an increasing amount of real-time data. Businesses can use technology to gather all of the data and use it to satisfy the accuracy and speed requirements of their customers. However, with supply chain partners and customers interacting with tracking data, there simply isn't time for shipments to wait for line-of-sight, manual scanning.

Furthermore, another critical feature enabled by digital IDs generated at the source is brand authentication. Although digital IDs can be allocated downstream, the further upstream the digital ID is established, the higher the accuracy. Maintaining the chain of custody discourages counterfeiting, tampering, and product introduction into the grey market. There's also the issue of overproduction – a digital ID shows where and how unwanted items end up.

Conclusion

Above is the impact that RFID tags can create over the entire logistics and warehousing industry. AWL India being one of the top logistics and warehousing solutions providers in the country understands the importance of digital tags and the effect that they are capable of creating in the industry. AWL India also provides the Best Warehouse In India. Moreover, to foster loyalty, firms must match unprecedented customer demands for faster delivery of goods and have accurate awareness of where their goods are at all times. Since, customers want to know where their products are made and, like merchants, want to know if they are genuine. A linked digital ID or RFID tag instils the customer’s trust by tracking the whereabouts of an item in real time, authenticating its provenance, and avoiding frauds. Moreover, the data obtained through connected digital IDs or RFID tags ties customers back to the brand in the most intimate way possible: the product they purchased in their hands. This also helps in increasing the customer satisfaction levels which in turn enables the business to retain their customers for a longer period of time.