RF-SMART Podcast: Taking Inventory

You’ve decided to invest in RF-SMART’s solutions, now what? This podcast walks listeners through what they can expect during an RF-SMART implementation, from initial planning to ongoing training and support. Listen to learn how we live out our value of being “crazy for our customers” by creating a streamlined implementation experience.

What You’ll Learn:

• What an RF-SMART implementation looks like

• How we train our users and offer...

For Every Meal, supply chain isn’t just a part of their business – it’s the way they fulfill their mission to provide food to kids in their area. Partnering with NetSuite and RF-SMART, they have optimized their supply chain operations with the use of mobile barcode scanning. In this episode, they share how they utilize RF-SMART to streamline their warehousing and provide a better experience for their community partners.

What You’l...

RF-SMART customer Green Rabbit is a big believer in improving inventory control with technology. As their business has grown, they have leveraged RF-SMART as both a software provider and business partner. In this episode, they share how they continue to lean on the RF-SMART product and support teams to level up their shipping process.

What You’ll Learn:

• How Green Rabbit and RF-SMART partnered together with warehouse checkups
• The...

Order fulfillment is an area where many customers find the most bottlenecks in their supply chain. For RF-SMART customer Crispi US, identifying and addressing inefficiencies was vital for their growth. In this episode, they share how RF-SMART helped them minimize errors, decrease picking times, and ship orders with greater speed and accuracy.

What You’ll Learn:

• How Crispi US is navigating both eCommerce and vendor orders with RF-...

Season 4, Episode 10- Adopting new technology in your warehouse can be daunting, but it doesn’t have to be! How can you tell when it’s time to take the leap and invest in new software solutions? RF-SMART customer Green Rabbit’s Gary Cifatte shares how his team found greater efficiency by embracing new inventory management solutions in their warehouse.

What You’ll Learn:

• How Green Rabbit’s Chief Technology Officer determines w...

Season 4, Episode 9- What You Need to Know About NetSuite Manufacturing, Part Two

In part two of this series, RF-SMART supply chain and software experts discuss level three and four of NetSuite Manufacturing: WIP and Routing and Work Order Reporting. This episode breaks down use cases for WIP and Routing, benefits of Work Order Reporting, and how this impacts overall supply chain success.

What You’ll Learn:

• Introduction to WIP an...

Every warehouse has unique document and label printing requirements. SummitIT, an RF-SMART Printing Solution, helps customers navigate these effortlessly. This episode highlights three unique ways our customers are applying SummitIT functionality to meet their supply chain needs.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to produce labels of multiple sizes from one printer

• How to customize documents to accommodate order requirements

• How to lever...

RF-SMART supply chain and software experts untangle the complicated world of manufacturing in the first installment of a two-episode NetSuite Manufacturing overview. This episode discusses the basics on which all RF-SMART Manufacturing customers operate, including a breakdown of the types of manufacturing and best use cases for each.

What You’ll Learn:

• Introduction to various types of manufacturing

• Difference between Kits and I...

On this episode of Take Five with Taking Inventory, Industrial Networking Solutions’ Warehouse Managers Josh Azores and Jacob Axtell share how RF-SMART Image Capture has improved their productivity, from the warehouse floor to their accountants’ desks.

What You’ll Learn:

• Benefits of Image Capture
• How Image Capture can improve your accounting practices
• How INS was able to digitize their packing slips for easy access

Addi...

On this episode of Taking Inventory, we highlight the career stories of two teammates at RF-SMART, Jodi Nuszkowski and Haleigh Thomas. Listen to hear how their careers were changed through RF-SMART’s Career Rockwall, allowing them to expand their impact at the company by experiencing multiple roles within the company. Additionally, Jodi and Haleigh share how they have ramped up their impact as leaders of the RF-SMART Women’s Develo...

On this episode of Take Five with Taking Inventory, Ryan Ferguson, Smoky Mountain Knife Works Distribution Vice President, shares how RF-SMART Shipping’s Consolidation feature has saved their fulfillment process time and money.

What You’ll Learn:

• Overview of RF-SMART Shipping’s Consolidation feature

• How Consolidation improved Smoky Mountain Knife Works’ fulfillments

Additional Resources:

Read up on RF-SMART’s shipping solution: R...

On this episode of Take Five with Taking Inventory, RF-SMART Sales Executive, Wayne Wilmoth, shares an overview of upcoming FDA regulations and how they will impact warehouses with serialized inventory.

What You’ll Learn:

• Overview of upcoming FDA regulations

• How RF-SMART WMS can help users navigate lot/serial tracking

• Steps to prepare for this change

Additional Resources:

Read up on how RF-SMART handles serialization: NetSuite ...

Maverick Beverage Company is known for their outstanding beverage distribution practices for both fine wines and craft spirits. With warehousing locations in five different states, they reviewed their eight-year plan to begin conceptualizing a new Florida distribution center. They leaned on the RF-SMART software team to help improve their process as they took on this new location. Listen to learn how they were able to build upon th...

Smoky Mountain Knife Works (SMKW) is the world’s largest knife showplace, with more than 1.5 million visitors to their retail showroom in Sevierville, Tennessee. Just down the road, their 100,000 sq ft warehouse sees hundreds, if not thousands, of orders a day. To accommodate their continually growing business, SMKW knew they could no longer rely on their home-grown AS400 inventory system.

After implementing NetSuite, they turned to...

FYiDoctors, an RF-SMART and NetSuite customer, is using automated storage retrieval systems (ASRS) known as vertical lift modules (VLM) to bring their goods directly to their pickers. Leveraging the RF-SMART Automation Module and Pick Planner, FYiDoctors is seeing reduced picking times, more accurate orders, and quicker fulfillment within their warehouse.

Join RF-SMART expert, Tony Wolf, and FYiDoctors warehouse manager, Demijan Sa...

Slate Rock FR chose RF-SMART WMS to streamline their supply chain processes and get life-saving products for first responders out the door. However, they were still left with a shipping solution that was slow, antiquated, and expensive. After implementing RF-SMART Shipping, Slate Rock FR was able to leverage the no-code rules engine and automated rate shopping to create a shipping process that meets the needs of their multi-faceted...

When TWG Supply chose NetSuite, they knew they would need a WMS. However, they were told all inventory management systems are “apples to apples.” After a failed implementation of a different WMS, TWG chose RF-SMART to support their growing inventory needs.

Now that TWG is live with RF-SMART, they have chosen to utilize image capture to attach images to inbound and outbound inventory records. This advanced workflow recently kept TWG ...

Whether you are an established customer or beginning implementation, RF-SMART offers complete care for your hardware needs. Our Hardware Professional Services (HPS) offerings include multiple packages that can help to maintain or deploy hardware so that you don’t have to!

Join us as we discuss how utilizing a Hardware Professional Services package can eliminate the need for you IT team to manage and update devices. In this episode, ...

All companies are feeling the effects of the unprecedented supply chain disruptions seen in the past decade—inventory shortages, extreme shipping costs, long shipping times, and personnel shortages, just to name a few.

The financial barriers experienced by manufacturers between first mile and last mile delivery have created a new burden on many businesses. So, how do we solve these issues? How can businesses better prepare themselve...