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Case Study: Southeastern Container Turns To Motorola & Decisionpoint Systems For RFID Asset Tracking
March 4, 2009
•Case Study: Southeastern Container Turns To Motorola & Decisionpoint Systems For RFID Asset Tracking
By Motorola
Southeastern Container handles nearly 70% of the plastic bottle production for Coca-Cola in the US. The company is using Motorola fixed & handheld RFID readers to track vital business assets - shipment bins - for effective and accurate inventory control. Exact information on the bins will provide a bin's history, lifetime, location, status and contents. The RFID solution will enable Southeastern Container to save thousands of dollars each year.
The challenge: Inventory control and traceability for specialized product containers
With roots in the southeastern U.S., Southeastern Container now has ten manufacturing facilities across the East Coast, Illinois and Wisconsin. At the company's three injection molding facilities, bottle blanks called preforms are manufactured. The plastic preforms are blown into bottles at Southeastern Container's blow-molding facilities and at bottle manufacturers outside of
the co-op.
The preforms are shipped to bottle manufacturing plants in cardboard containers or existing plastic bins. Ideally, these containers are returned empty to the injection molding facilities to repeat the cycle. However, problems with this return process were costing Southeastern Container thousands of dollars each year.
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