Operations at Healthcare Suppliers has two major components: Manufacturing, Distribution Center

Manufacturing

Traditional device tracking systems rely on barcodes that often consume large parts of product packaging and require line-of-sight between a barcode reader and the barcode itself.

By integrating RFID labeling at the point of manufacture, device suppliers effectively serialize inventory and enable efficient tracking of medical devices throughout the healthcare network.

MFGView is the backbone of the RFID solution leveraging the global ISO standard and ANSI approved 13.56 MHz technology for tagging and verifying the application of RFID tags to medical devices. As RFID tags do not require line-of-sight to read the tags many options are available for tag placement to ensure efficient tag reads at all points where a product is read during its lifecycle.

Packaging strategy is a professional service provided by WaveMark's experts. This service improves the likelihood of customer visibility to product branding and product name. The service includes a comprehensive review of existing packaging formats, processes, and workflows - and enables the development of a comprehensive packaging strategy that ensures effective RFID tagging in manufacturing, efficient processing in the distribution center, and ease of use by field sales and clinical staff alike.

Distribution Center

Routine distribution responsibilities such as labeling, picking, shipping, inventory cycle-counts, and processing returns are often burdened with slow and error-prone manual processes that increase expiration exposure and deterioration of customer intimacy.

Device manufacturers that leverage RFID solutions in their distribution centers experience dramatic productivity enhancements in primary responsibilities such as shipment, cycle-count, and return processing. Integration between RFID solution and core Enterprise Resource Systems (ERP) ensures all systems are synchronized and enabling availability of up-to-the-minute information throughout the organization.

DCView handles the efficient shipment, returns, scrap, transfer/put-away, and cycle count often reducing workload by as much as 60% due to the highly efficient and accurate processing and tracking of medical devices. This option can scale easily to fit any size operation. Interfaces to ERP systems are hosted by WaveMark and may be pre-configured for quick implementation.

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