Mobile & Wireless

Demystifying the Business and Technical Implications of the Next Generation of WLAN Technology.

How does your IT team today determine your company’s current industrial wireless system needs and assess whether they are being met? When was the last time the wireless network at your industrial sites was upgraded or refreshed – does it lag behind the deployment of new mobile devices or applications?

With suppliers jumping on the RFID bandwagon and more deployments looming on the horizon, the future of RFID remains promising. Here are the market drivers that continue to push ADC/RFID adoption and examples of facilities that are putting it to work.

In our recent shopper survey, Shoppers today indicated that their top 5 uses of mobile phones in the store included: Looking up store information, Browsing online websites for products, Checking for sales, specials, or coupons, Looking for competitive pricing, and Using mobile coupons.

Learn how the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) deployed the Intermec CN50 and Intermec CK71 rugged mobile computers with the help of Scan Read Technologies to boost data capture capabilities at high stakes tournaments. As a result, they expect an excess of $3 million in savings by 2016.

Sorting through the smart phones, PDAs and ruggedized computers available for business use is no easy task. Dozens of manufacturers offer hundreds of devices in thousands of configurations, but only one may be best suited for your particular environment and workforce.

Sales associates in Lord & Taylor's flagship New York Fifth Avenue store now use RFID to automatically improve display sample inventory processes and visibility, and can attribute a 4% increase in sales to more complete floor displays.

Lord & Taylor faced an all-too-common retail problem: you can’t sell what you don’t show. In the fast-changing, high-turnover arena of fashion, hot items fly off the shelves – and unless the display floor is quickly and properly stocked, the next potential sales opportunity can fly away, too.

In a presentation on its first-ever annual analyst day today, Urban Outfitters made an announcement: The chain, CIO Calvin Hollinger said, will switch from cash registers to Apple products. "Sales people will have iPod touches," Joe Weistenthal reports, "and cash registers are being phased out in favor of iPads on a swivel."

Starmount software solutions help retailers optimize the shopper experience, and leading retailers are using our products to bring the richness of the Web and the power of mobile into the store to enhance customer engagement and increase sales.

With a mix of users accessing your applications from a variety of mobile and PC devices, from a variety of interfaces, and across a variety of networks, how do you validate the performance of your applications?

Companies are facing serious external challenges while managing aging IT infrastructures and applications portfolios. To decrease costs and risks while increasing flexibility and innovation, many are turning to cloud and mobile technologies.

Software AG announced the results of a customer technology adoption survey carried out at its ProcessWorld 2012 event in Florida. The results confirm the software market is at an inflection point with the widespread adoption of Big Data, Cloud, Mobile, Collaborative and Business Process Management (BPM) technologies over the coming 24 months.

American Apparel was looking for a smarter way to meet their goals and, from what they had learned, item-level RFID looked like precisely the solution they wanted. Given the control the company has over its own manufacturing, distribution and retail operations, the plan was to reap the benefits of RFID not only on the retail floor, but throughout its closed loop supply chain.

At its main manufacturing facility in Eldersburg, Maryland, London Fog faced the challenge of upgrading its inventory and shipping/receiving hardware and applications to accommodate greater wireless flexibility and allow for future technology developments.

See how Android Industries, a sub-assembler and sequencer of complex modules for automotive OEMs, uses Honeywell's VX8 and VX9 computers and Zebra's Material Flow Replenishment Solution to be more competitive and to eliminate safety concerns on its factory floors.

Having a professional site survey performed is the first step, and is possibly the most critical. It truly is the foundation of an entire system, and this is the step that is most frequently overlooked. In this White Paper we cover the 3 major steps necessary for optimum performance from a wireless network.

During Retalix Synergy 2012, a panel of the world's top leading retailers discussed how the traditional, point-of-sale-centric store environment is evolving into a multi-channel or omni-channel model that delivers a consistent shopping experience across all customer touch points, including the retailer's website, its physical store and its mobile shopping channel.

Supply Chain Services is a full service provider of barcode data collection solutions. Supply Chain Services delivers barcode scanning and barcode printing equipment, as well as support services to warehousing, manufacturing, and distribution organizations.

American Apparel tested and deployed an item level RFID-based system that allowed store managers to track the movement of clothing items from ASN receiving, to back room put away, through restock staging and retail sales floor cycle counts and on to the point-of-sale execution. By leveraging this advanced RFID solution from Xterprise, American Apparel reduced both labor costs and out-of-stocks, while driving improve sales and same-store performance.