Oracle

Oracle Solutions for Retailers’ RFID Mandates

Qiming HuangSenior Strategic Development ManagerQiming.Huang@oracle.com

RFID Market DriversRetail Mandates

RetailerRetailer RFID InitiativeRFID Initiative Companies AffectedCompanies Affected

Mandate for suppliers to ship pallets and cases with RFID tags January 2007

600’s of CPG and Manufacturing Companies

Mandate for suppliers to ship pallets and cases with RFID tags January 2006

100’s of High Tech and Electronics Companies

Mandate for suppliers to ship pallets and cases with RFID tags Spring 2005, 2007

100’s of CPG and Manufacturing Companies

Mandate for suppliers to ship pallets and cases with RFID tags April 2005

100’s of CPG and Manufacturing Companies

Mandate for suppliers to ship pallets and cases with RFID tags November 2004

100’s of CPG and Manufacturing Companies

Mandate for suppliers to ship pallets and cases with RFID tags September 2004

100’s of CPG and Manufacturing Companies

RFID Market DriversOther Mandates

Agency / GroupAgency / Group RFID InitiativeRFID Initiative Companies AffectedCompanies Affected

By 2010, all pallets and cases shipped to large depots run by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) will have to have passive RFID tags.

40,000+ CPG and Manufacturing Companies

Endorsed use of RFID to track all drugs at the unit level by 2007 to create an electronic "pedigree” to reduce counterfeiting

All Pharmaceutical companies and potentially all pharmacies and healthcare providers

Endorsed use of RFID tags for US-Visit program, Smart and Secure Tradelanes, U.S. Customs Container Security Initiative (CSI), Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), Operation Safe Commerce.

All companies shipping goods to and from the US

Cooperate to set standards for using RFID and other auto-id technologies for parts tracking and identification

Airlines, parts suppliers, regulatory agencies and third-party maintenance repair and overhaul shops, which do contracted maintenance on behalf of airlines

Two Deployment Solutions

Oracle Sensor Edge Server & Compliance Workspace 10.1.3 Only

Included in Fusion Middleware RFID Printer – e.g. Zebra RFID Reader – e.g. Symbol Light Stack –Optional, e.g. Patlite

Oracle Sensor Edge Server 10.1.3 & Oracle WMS 11.5.10

Included in Fusion Middleware and EBS Enabled RFID in WMS RFID Printer – e.g. Zebra RFID Reader – e.g. Symbol Light stack – Optional, e.g. Patlite

RSCW ArchitectureRFID Supplier Compliance Workspace (RSCW)

Sensor Edge Server

Oracle Application Server

Sensor Data Repository

Oracle Database

ComplianceServices

ComplianceWorkspace

Custom Apps

Label Printing

RSCW Workflow

Data Import

RFID Tag

Association

Verification

Oracle RFID Supplier Compliance Workspace

EPC

GenerationData Export

Supplier

Label

Printing

Oracle ApplicationsPackaged Applications

Legacy Applications

RSCW Pros & Cons

For non-WMS customers or lower-version-WMS customers

Stand-alone compliance solutions Minimum impact to current system and business Part of Application Server JE, SE, EE and EDA Small footprint and easy deployment–3 to 5 days Turn-key solution integrated with hardware Supporting all EPC encodings Extensible and Flexible Requires integration with ERP system (Optional)

Sensor Edge Server

Disp

atchers

Device D

rivers

Driver

Driver

Driver

InternalQueue

Streams

JMS

SOAP

HTTP

E-Business Apps

Even

tP

rocesso

r

Streams

De-queue, parse and prep API calls

WMS Enabled• Receiving• Shipping

Existing APIs• Inventory• QA• WIP• EAM• and others

The current E-Business Apps release (11i10) includes support for WMS Receipt and Shipping transactions. RFID enabling other transactions is possible via enhancement and could leverage existing API calls.

Groups

Filters & Rules

WMS ArchitectureWarehouse Management System (WMS)

Load of pallets and / or cartons with RFID tags on each

Drive load through RFID Reader in Receiving Dock

Oracle Sensor Oracle Sensor Edge ServerEdge Server

Interface to readers, clean and filter data, then pass IDs to application

WMS RFID WMS RFID Event Event

ProcessorProcessor

Access objects associated with the ID's (e.g. LPN's on ASN) then raise correct Business Event

WMS WMS Application Application

APIsAPIs

Process the Business Event, e.g. Receipt of pallet or carton

Access associated source document, e.g. the PO’s ASN

WMS WMS Response & Response & Exception Exception HandlingHandling

Confirm success or failure, e.g. trigger green light or sound buzzer

Putaway, rescan or divert material

WMS Shipping & Receiving (WMS 11i10)Built-In Support for High-Volume Business Flows

WMS Pros & Cons

For WMS customers with WMS version 11.5.10 Built-in compliance solutions in WMS Large footprint and complicated deployment- 3 to

5 days for enabling RFID only Dependency on SES Turn-key solution integrated with hardware Supporting all EPC constructs Extensible and Flexible Out-of-box integrated with WMS and other ERP

flows

“After two months of research and analysis, we selected Oracle Sensor Edge Server as our compliance solution. At the time, we had absolute no experience with RFID and EPC technology. Within one day, the Oracle team showed us how to deploy the system and integrate with the necessary hardware. In the next two months, one of our IT staff members installed and configured Oracle Sensor Edge Server in our warehouse and connected it with Zebra RFID printers and Alien RFID readers. Since we started shipping products to retailers requiring RFID tags, we have not been contacted about any read rate complaints. The system runs stable without a dedicated maintenance resource. With Oracle Sensor Edge Server as part of Oracle Event Driven Architecture (EDA) Suite, we finished the project successfully on time and within budget.”

-- Steve Yokoyama, IT Program Manager, Gateway Computer

Reference CustomerChallenges Meet the retailers’ mandates in a

short period of time with limited budget and no RFID experience.

Ship products to multiple retailers with different RFID tag encodings.

Print RFID labels with varied label layouts, contents, and dimensions.

Verify shipment with RFID labels automatically.

Benefits Fast deployment and easy

implementation. 100% acceptance rate on all shipments

to RFID enabled retailers. Plug and play framework for hardware. Low maintenance cost due to stable

system. Supporting multiple tag encodings and

label formats with flexible and configurable system.

Reduced shipping time and errors with auto-verification.

RFID Successful StoriesOperationControl

Identity & AssetManagement

Retail & Supply Chain Aviation

RFID Partner EcoSystemConsultingIntegration

Infrastructure Platforms

Network

TagsReadersPrinters

Information Infrastructure

Applications

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