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Xterprise Announces Clarity RTITM, an RFID-Enabled Reusable
Transport Item (RTI) Application, Now Available for the European
Market
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Xterprise Incorporated
March 10, 2008
Clarity RTITM Application Optimises the Use of Totes, Pallets, Bins,
Bulk Containers, Roll Cages and Similar RTIs in the Supply Chain
London, England -- Xterprise Incorporated, the leading global supplier of
applications for the High Definition Enterprise™ and a
Gold-Certified Microsoft™ ISV partner, announced today the release
in the European market of its RFID-enabled asset management
application which optimises the use of Reusable Transport Items
(RTIs) in various supply chain environments. |
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Reusable transport items play a critical role
in many environments to help ensure the timely, continuous flow of
materials and products to production lines, distribution and
ultimately customers. Xterprise and third-party research indicates
that more than 50 million RTIs are lost, damaged or otherwise
removed from service each year at an estimated cost, globally, of
close to $1 billion -- a significant portion of which are in Europe.
Without proper visibility and management of these valuable assets,
stockpiling occurs at artificially high levels at critical choke
points, resulting in unnecessary replenishment to meet demand.
Xterprise
has purposely built the Clarity RTI™ application to address the
unique uses and resulting challenges of managing RTIs as they move
between stakeholders in closed-loop environments typically found in
retail, 3pl, and manufacturing organisations. The application
provides highly granular visibility and control of RTI assets across
all stakeholders, matching supply to demand while continuously
measuring fleet performance. Typical customer benefits include
higher RTI asset utilization, lower acquisition costs, and greater
transaction accuracy.
"The cost of RTIs to shippers, manufacturers and retailers has been
rising in step with the global demand and prices of commodities; as
such, organisations can no longer ignore the bottom-line
implications of not having these assets at the right location in the
correct quantities when needed. Surprisingly, these assets are
typically managed with spreadsheets or paper-based systems," said
Mike Letchford, general manager Xterprise Europe. "Without an
RFID-enabled, high fidelity application like Clarity RTI™, keeping
track and managing large volumes of RTIs across a constantly moving
supply chain can be next to impossible."
Xterprise has established a pedigree of
excellence with Clarity RTI™ delivering value in many of the largest
and most challenging RTI environments worldwide:
- Managing millions of assets and millions of transactions each
month
for the leading plastic pallet-pooling organisation in North
America. The
scale of this deployment is second only to the US Department of
Defense in
terms of assets under management;
- Optimisation of high cost RTIs used in production in a large
Japanese
automaker's assembly facility;
- Actively tracking the exposure of RTIs to ambient environmental
variables to ensure safe shipment and integrity of reagents used in
pharmaceutical manufacturing as well as liquids used in
semiconductor
manufacturing;
- Automating the complex flow of inbound raw materials contained in
RTIs
into a lean manufacturing for a leading automotive electronics
supplier.
The Clarity RTI™ application from Xterprise is built on the
Microsoft BizTalk R2 platform featuring a robust RFID framework.
This ensures maximum flexibility, scalability, and interoperability
at the lowest possible total cost of ownership.
ABOUT XTERPRISE
Xterprise Incorporated was
founded in 2002 as a provider of RFID (Radio Frequency
Identification) applications. Today our solutions combine Microsoft
platform technology, continuous improvement and lean supply chain
expertise, enterprise supply chain systems integration along with
RFID technology to deliver previously unachievable levels of
visibility, assurance, accuracy, process improvement and value to
clients. The growing customer list of Xterprise customers includes
Alcon, Allergan, Chicken of the Sea, Corning, Cytech, Dairy Fresh,
Dial, Eureaka, ExxonMobil, General Mills, Georgia Pacific, Kraft,
iGPS, Intel, L'Oreal, Nokia, Samsung, Schoeller Arca Systems,
ShopVac, Siemens VDO, The Libman Company, The US Department of
Veterans Affairs, TIMCO Aviation Services, TNT Express, Toyota,
Wells Fargo and many others. The Xterprise European office is
located in Beverley, UK, with its global headquarters in Carrollton,
Texas, USA (Dallas/Fort Worth). To learn more call +44 (0) 1482
881979, email infoEU@xterprise.com or visit www.xterprise.com.
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