How current is the inventory report you’re looking at right now? Handing thousands of units to someone else’s warehouse is a little like dropping your kid off at school: you trust the people in charge, but you still want to know they arrived.
At Reconext sites running RFID, that check-in happens automatically. Your records update the instant your units roll through our receiving dock. After that, every cycle count confirms they’re still accounted for: a handheld reader captures each tagged unit in the aisle as the team member walks it, and your records update with every step.
Starting with our Grapevine, Texas site, we’re adding one more layer. Every rack location will carry its own tag, so your records will show exactly where each pallet sits.
Live in Memphis
At our Memphis site, which supports a major computing OEM partner, units are read the moment they hit the receiving dock. Two cycle-count apps on the team’s handheld devices are in production, and the people using them on the floor are shaping each new version.
Full inventory tagging is underway, with new product and finished goods tagged as they arrive. Testing starts soon on dock-door sensors that log units as they leave the building. Once they’re in place, a customer’s record will run from the day their inventory arrives to the day it ships.
Next: location-level tracking in Grapevine
Location tagging starts at Grapevine, which serves a global technology customer. Pallets there already carry RFID tags, so the work centers on the racks themselves.
Prep is complete, and in a trial run on a single aisle, the team counted about two rack locations a minute. When the tags arrive, the team will tag roughly 5,500 storage locations, test the system end to end with the customer’s operations team, and support the site closely through go-live.
Built on a stronger network
Every scan, test station, camera and system on our floors depends on the network underneath it, so we are investing there as well.
At our two largest facilities, in Mexicali, Mexico and Bydgoszcz, Poland, we have replaced more than 70 switches with managed equipment that gives production and engineering a reliable base to build on. In Bydgoszcz, the shop-floor switch replacement was completed in a single Saturday morning with no disruption reported afterward.
Larger expansions are planned at both sites, each adding more than 400 new network connections for faster wireless on the floor, stronger security separation and room to grow.
What it means for our customers
We built these capabilities for two of our largest programs, and the same RFID integration can now extend to any customer we serve.
For our partners, that means location-level visibility into their inventory, faster and more accurate cycle counts, and, as dock-door tracking comes online, a clearer record of units as they leave the warehouse.
