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EastPack implements Peacock Bros’ RFID, indoor vehicle management supply chain solution

EastPack - RFID and indoor vehicle management supply chain solution

EastPack, a Kiwi Fruit pack house in New Zealand, has implemented the new RFID and indoor vehicle management supply chain solution from Peacock Bros .

Combining RFID, indoor vehicle tracking, mobile data capture and inventory management software, this ideal solution has already achieved an ROI for EastPak just months after its deployment.

This new approach was designed, developed and deployed by Peacock Bros for EastPack, who needed more than just point of activity tracking of RFID pallets to fulfil their supply chain visibility requirements.

The resultant supply chain management system now tracks the movement of all the fork lift vehicles and pallets within centimetres, every second of the day in every facility.

Continuous monitoring of activities allows for full inventory reporting on where the stock is located, quantity, expiry date and much more, as well as analysing the performance of indoor vehicles such as forklifts to ensure optimal efficiencies within the warehouses.

All of this is made possible by the forklifts being fitted with special Sky-trax optical cameras that identify the relative location of position markers suspended from the warehouse ceiling.

The location information is fed to a vehicle mounted mobile computer, which continuously relays data such as location, speed and direction to the main warehouse management system.

By adding automated RFID pallet tag readers and height sensors to the forklift, the warehouse system now knows the location and height of the tagged pallets even if they are in motion onboard the forklift.

EastPack maintains 3 warehouses containing 42 refrigerated storage rooms, receiving, storing and dispatching as orders are placed. The solution was deployed throughout its entire operation incorporating 25 forklifts, which last year moved over 13.5 million trays of Kiwi fruit.

Donna Smit, EastPak’s Company Administrator said, “We have already moved over 2 million more trays than this time last year due to the new system.”

“Knowing the exact location of a pallet at any given time is vital”, Donna Smit explains, “because Kiwi fruit is a perishable product, we have to be sure that the pallet taken by the forklift is the right one every time.”

“Previously warehouse staff read a barcode with a scanner and manually typed in the pallets location, the problem was we could not depend on the accuracy of the information being entered and interpreted.”

Warehouse operational efficiencies has improved due to the Sky-trax OPSMan monitoring programme integrated into their own warehouse management system, which provides the warehouse manager a real-time view of the vehicles movements and stock locations.

Because all activities are now being monitored to an accuracy of 5cm², the system can provide reports on vehicle use effectiveness, stock status and warehouse layout practicality, greatly assisting in the day to day operations of a high activity environment.

Additional OH&S benefits can be retrieved from this solution, including the breadcrumb trail function, which will identify the heavily congested sections within a warehouse.

Proximity alerts can be added when approaching a pedestrian area and even an optional speed limiter fitted to reduce accidents with pedestrians or other forklifts.

This solution is scalable and will fit into any warehouse or distribution centre that requires around the clock inventory accuracy and above the norm return on investment.

Peacock Bros deliver a competitive edge to these types of environments reducing running costs and increasing productive output.

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Peacock Bros celebrates 120 year anniversary (20-Aug-2008)
Peacock Bros celebrates this year its 120 year anniversary. Still run by the original family line that started the company back in 1888, Peacock Bros today have branches in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland New Zealand making them a large identification products and supplies companies in Australasia.

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Peacock Bros has won the Australian Industrial Product of the Year award for its Indoor Vehicle and Product Tracking solution.

Indoor vehicle positioning system from Peacock Bros (3-Mar-2008)
Peacock Bros now exclusively offers Sky-trax, an indoor vehicle positioning system that will track, record and monitor the activities of any indoor vehicles such as forklifts and pallet stackers.

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