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© 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.The information contained herein is subject to change without notice
RFID at HP,
Salil Pradhan
Chief Technologist, RFID
3 April 10, 2023
Putting our learnings to work for you today……
EXTERNAL
INTERNAL
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Standards leader
HP helps develop global standards
Service providerHP provides consulting and integration services for customers implementing RFID
Innovation leaderRFID technology, sensor infrastructure, security and management
Market providerHP provides customers
with RFID-enabled goods
UserHP uses RFID in its
own operations
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HP Supply Chain today• 137,000 printers shipped daily• 82,000 PCs shipped daily• 2M Industry Standard Servers
shipped annually • 110,000 retail outlets• 20M calls/year at Sales
contact centers• 370M customer orders annually• An eOrder placed every 9
seconds • 77.7M unique visits/month
to hp.com
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HP Operations
Value Direct
Volume Direct
Value Indirect
Volume Indirect
HP-led
Partner-led
Multipleroutes-to-market
Broadest customer base in the
technology industry
Broadest portfolio of IT products/services in
the world
HP portfolio Customers
Enterprise
SMB
Consumer
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HP’s supplier base
Major locations of HP product materials, components and services suppliers
HP’s Journey with RFID
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Brief Timeline of RFID at HP • 2002
− August - Supply Chain / Logistics Councils authorize RFID pilot
− September - first proof of concept kicked off at Memphis printer facility
• 2003− January - Chester, VA ( inkjet pens ) chosen as the next RFID pilot
site
− April - Memphis POC shows positive ROI, RFID Core Team launched
− June - Wal*Mart issues first retailer request for tagged goods
− July - HP launches NA Retail RFID program worldwide
• 2004− Feb – HP joins EPCGlobal
− April - Memphis in production, HP shipping tagged goods to Wal*Mart
− November - 21 RFID capable sites in Latin America, Mexico, USA and Asia
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The Wal–Mart requirement – Retaining your customer• Began shipping tagged
product to Wal-Mart April 2004 as part of initial pilot
• Commenced on schedule in January 2005 shipping all Wal-Mart products tagged at case and pallet level
• Today more than 60 tagged products are shipped to Wal-Mart from 28 sites globally
• HP is piloting with many of the world’s largest retailers
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Retail IPG RFID Plan
AiO & Personal Printers
AiO & Personal Printers
Scanners & Cameras
AIO
Toner
Toner/PersonalLaserjet
Personal LJ
InkJet Supplies
Shenzhen Mentor Media
Base Manufacturing
In transit
Malaysia Flextronics
Shanghai Calcomp
BangkokVenture
Hong KongCanon
TokyoCanon
Canon China
Various
FGI Dire
ct
FGI Direct
FGI Direct
IDS Air
Memphis Flex
GuadalajaraFlex
GuadalajaraJabill
Virginia Sonoco
Memphis Menlo
Product Completion Center
Regional
Distribution
Walmart Walmart, Sam’s Club and Neighborhood Market Stores
Walmart DC1 Sanger, Texas
Walmart DC2 Cleburn, Texas
Walmart DC3 De-Soto, Texas
Supply Site
Tag Site
Delivery Site
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HP RFID Geographic Scope
RFID impacts businesses, operations and Customers in all Regions. Therefore program scope is global and pan HP in nature
Commercial sites
Retail sites28 sites now RFID capable More in progress
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Memphis Factory Inkjet Hardware• First to ship tagged cases and
pallets to Wal-Mart April 2004• Full site implemented in
October 2004• Will tag 6M printers in 06• Tagging pallets & cases with
EPC Class 1 915Mhz tags• May 06: Lines Gen2 ready• July 06: Fully converted
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Sao Paulo FactorySao Paulo performs the full range
implementation:1. Manufacturing +
2. Completion process +
3. Distribution center (inbound & outbound) +
4. Reverse distribution (DOA & warranty repair)1st pilot in 2004
Fully Operational today
1. Tagging Printer Chassis prior to build
2. Gathering Key data during Build (Product DNA)
3. Next: Materials level controls using Tags
Using RFID to build visibility in the Supply Chain
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Value proposition for RFID• Could we use RFID to enhance the
flow of goods in our Supply Chain?−Automating identification of items
through the process flow
−Eliminating manual effort
−Increasing granularity of item, location, and time data
−Eliminating processes which only identified items
−Eliminating dwell time between processes
−Using RFID based data to radically change processes
−Carry key data on an item for faster local processing
Benefits & Learnings
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Is It ¥ € £ $ Worthwhile ?• Yes…. but it’s not always obvious
as to why and how. The key advantages are :−Labor Savings
−Process Accuracy
−Inventory Accuracy
−Proof Of Delivery
−Improved Operational Data
−Improved Operational Performance
−Advanced Ship Notice ( Dispatch Advice )
−Predictive Event Management
−Common Shared Data
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Lessons learned…• With “slap and ship” you just spend
money – use the information • pallet logical build process reduced from
minutes to seconds• Improvements in transfer of pallet/case-
level inventory between manufacturing and distribution center sites
• Operational benefits from improvements in outbound processes
• Memphis site receives material from Chester – integration tested
• Automated identification at key stages of the assembly production line to gain manufacturing efficiencies
• Master data management influences the NPI process
• Global deployment not easy
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Lessons learned (2)• Tags, readers, middleware vendors not
consolidated yet• Scalability, collaboration not proven yet• Data synchronization is KEY• Don’t wait to know everything… or you’ll
have the competitive advantage of a 100M sprinter in a marathon
• You’ll get conflicting advice and information. In the end you need to go and just implement it to learn
• Pilot, learn, adjust then roll out• Start with simple ideas like replacing
barcode scans, then work up to the full EPC architecture
• Crawl, walk, jog, run then sprint seems to work
