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Nancy's Foods Streamlines Inventory Management With Intermec RFID

November 15, 2007

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Case Study: Nancy's Foods Streamlines Inventory Management With Intermec RFID

Every August Nancy's Specialty Foods begins to go quiche crazy. Production in the company's Newark, Calif., plant ramps up five-fold over normal to prepare for the holidays. Soon there is little freezer space to spare in the 86,000-square-foot facility.

No matter what else goes on at Nancy's, one thing will continue. "You can't stop an oven," said David Siegfried, Nancy's information technology manager. Because if ovens were to cool, an assembly line to stall, Nancy's would begin leaching money.

"At times we've had from 15 to 45 people standing there in excess of an hour," Siegfried said. "Multiply that times their pay rate, and now they're behind. Now you've got to pay them overtime."

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