Sensor solutions

Keep an accurate, up-to-date inventory of the products on your store's shelves. RFID enables item-level tracking to reduce out-of-stocks and enable timely product replenishment. The result: an efficient consumer-driven supply chain, increased sales and higher customer satisfaction.

Track reusable assets, perishable goods and inventory with RFID technology to reduce shrink and improve supply chain operations. The reusable asset tracking solution from IBM provides near real-time visibility into asset movement so you can improve utilization while reducing shrink.

RFID and sensor-based solutions from IBM can help you achieve timely and accurate visibility into your supply chain. From the point of manufacture to the retail store, an efficient, demand-driven supply chain can help increase sales, reduce time to market, lower inventory costs and improve the customer experience.

Without visibility across your manufacturing operations, your supply chain is running blind. Lost parts can stall production and delivery, costing time and money. You need real insight into the moving parts of your manufacturing processes, so you can easily transfer part identification and maintenance history between value chain players.

Improve the efficiency of your business processes, plant operations and supply chain with radio frequency identification (RFID) and other automatic identification (Auto-ID) technologies. Manufacturing work-in-process visibility from IBM can transform your inventory management, asset tracking and assembly automation.

Automotive OEMs can increase asset visibility with accurate, timely information on container location and status throughout the supply chain. Our solution includes automatic identification (AutoID), such as radio frequency identification (RFID) to automate container check-in, checkout and accounting processes.

Enhancing patient safety and improving supply chain efficiency are challenges that life sciences companies face everyday. The Pharmaceutical Track and Trace solution from IBM can help by capturing sensor-based events from 2D barcodes or RFID readers to automatically track the movement of drugs across your supply chain.

Meet IT asset inventory reporting, auditing and regulatory compliance requirements while lowering IT asset management costs. The radio frequency identification (RFID) data center resource management solution enables the tracking and management of IT data center assets.

Responsible for safety, regulatory compliance, physical security or asset management? IBM is bringing innovative solutions to chemical and petroleum industries. Radio frequency identification enables virtual real-time asset tracking for security and accountability, providing increased visibility for employee and contractor safety.

Radio frequency identification “smart tags” support the promise of an intelligent supply chain by allowing for container, pallet or item level tracking of consumer goods. They can help you streamline distribution centers and reduce out-of-stock and “shrinkage” scenarios.

In the midmarket, supply chains are growing increasingly complex. You need an intelligent supply chain that is fast, responsive, flexible—and consumer-driven—providing near real-time visibility into the location and movement of products. IBM can help you use RFID for competitive advantage and business partner compliance.