Sensors and automatic identification have already transformed supply chains. RFID tags and scanners, barcodes, QR codes, and handheld or fixed position scanners and imagers generate real-time data that can improve supply chain visibility. They also can enable drones and autonomous mobile robots to bring more automated technologies into warehouses.
Enterprises continue to invest these technologies as they push closer toward realizing the concept of the automated warehouse, especially in the face of an unprecedented labor shortage. More advanced and cheaper tags have enabled all sorts of capabilities in warehouses and retail settings. The tags let retailers know exactly what inventory is in which stores, and where. That has given them more selling options.
Enterprises continue to invest these technologies as they push closer toward realizing the concept of the automated warehouse, especially in the face of an unprecedented labor shortage.
