White Paper: Transform Warehouse Operations With Mobility: Best Practices For Your Supply Chain Operations

The warehouse is at the center of a business, a key area through which nearly everything in the business must pass—from packages in a parcel post environment to raw materials and finished goods in a manufacturing plant to a wealth of products in a distribution center. When mobility is extended throughout the warehouse, a new level of efficiency, accuracy and visibility can be achieved. Paper processes are replaced by real-time computerized forms on mobile computers; bar code/RFI D printing and scanning verifies that the right item is being picked, packed and shipped; and RFID provides automated supply chain visibility anywhere, anytime.

With warehouse mobility also comes the collection of a richer data set in real time, providing an accurate, timely view of inventory in the warehouse, order status, and more. And when availability of this information is extended to other areas of business, the full value of warehouse mobility is realized. The data collected in this key focal point of the business process has the power to enable significant cost and operational efficiencies throughout the enterprise—in the yard and on the production line as well as in dispatch, sales, and service.

In this white paper, Motorola and Zebra jointly present how warehouse mobility can form the foundation for enterprise-wide visibility, creating a more collaborative information architecture that not only enables a leaner warehouse operations—but a leaner, more profitable enterprise as well.