Patni focuses on RFID-enabling key business processes where RFID can deliver major benefits. All of our RFID Business solutions are designed to increase effectiveness, optimize costs, minimize disruption, improve performance, and ensure future extensibility.

Mandate Compliance
Patni’s SmartVISION^® solution for Mandate Compliance consists of tools, methodologies and services for meeting RFID mandates from retailers (like Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Albertsons, Metro, Tesco, etc) and government bodies (like US Department of Defense).Through our comprehensive range of RFID business solutions, we have helped many clients meet demanding compliance needs. This includes:

• Assessment of mandate impact on business processes and planning of new workflows
• Creation of a cost-benefit analysis for mandate compliance
• Assessments for product, process and IT infrastructure RFID readiness
• Evaluation of hardware and software
• Conducting the RFID pilot
• Deploy RFID across mandate-affected facilities with integration to existing enterprise applications to derive internal ROI
• Leveraging RFID deployments to integrate into business operations to derive internal ROI.

Patni’s RFID Business solutions include consulting, hardware and software deployment, systems integration, organization-wide rollouts, and post-implementation ‘go-live’ support and maintenance.

Supply Chain Operations and Inventory Management
Patni’s SmartVISION^® solution for Supply Chain Operations and Inventory Management helps organizations RFID-enable these operations and leverage the benefits of RFID to increase accuracy and productivity, and lower costs.

Patni's RFID Business Solutions improve supply chain operations across the board. Real-time, automated data capture for goods inventories eliminates blind spots and reduces overall inventory levels, labor costs and safety stocks. RFID-enabling major supply chain and warehouse processes reduces labor costs and increases productivity and inventory accuracy. Missing items can be located quickly. Our RFID Business solutions have helped many organizations control counterfeits, thefts and misplacements, while increasing goods availability and reducing out-of-stock incidents.

Using RFID in receiving and shipping reduces order validation time and costs, enables fast ‘dock-to-stock’ movement, increases shipping manifest accuracy and productivity, and allows cross-docks and increases order-filling rates. RFID also helps manage time-sensitive inventory more efficiently — reducing unsaleable stock.

Patni helps companies integrate RFID into supply chain operations by working with clients every step of the way. Patni’s RFID Business Solutions expertise includes selecting the level of tagging (item, case, pallet), evaluating the right hardware combinations for ensuring read success, RFID infrastructure deployment, RFID data management and RFID applications integration with existing enterprise applications, and enabling real-time data use for sound business decisions.

Industrial Asset Management
Industrial machinery and equipment is the heart of any manufacturing organization. Patni’s SmartVISION^® solution for tracking industrial assets lets organizations monitor the status, location, and usage of these assets for optimal use.

Unlike a “one size fits all” approach, Patni’s tracking solution allows a mix of barcodes and passive and active tags based on the asset type and its tracking and monitoring requirements. The tracking and monitoring application is easily configurable and customizable to the specialized needs of each organization. It monitors configuration setup, versions, locations, maintenance schedules, usage, and life for better asset utilization and management.

Production Management and Control
The traditional manufacturing supply chain is moving from ‘push’ to ‘pull’ mode — resulting in smaller shipments running through the supply chain to match product demand “just-in-time.”

Patni’s SmartVISION^® Production Management and Control solutions leverage the power of RFID to automate data reads and allow information to flow with the material. For example, Patni automates and monitors machining and assembly lines for configurable products like engine blocks and painting lines. Our RFID Business Solutions deliver substantial benefits to the shop floor that include higher flexibility, better quality, reduced rejection, faster throughput, and better monitoring and manufacturing infrastructure use.

Enterprise Support Applications
In addition to core business process applications, RFID also delivers major benefits in many supporting applications by increasing productivity, reducing costs and creating a better customer experience.

Library Management
Libraries worldwide are looking for technologies to streamline day-to-day tasks of book issue and return, shelf management and theft control.

Patni’s SmartVISION^® solution for Library Management automates library book issue and return and supports self-checkout stations, inventory counting and book theft prevention. Its NCIP and SIP2 compliant interface allows organizations to integrate RFID Business Solutions seamlessly with their existing library systems.

IT Assets Management
Organizations need to maintain and upgrade their IT investments over their lifecycle to ensure optimum usage and security.

Patni’s SmartVISION^® multi-option, scaleable solution for tracking IT assets lets organizations monitor assets at various levels (device, module) and supports a full range of security, from passive to active modes. The application is easily configurable and customizable to organizations’ unique needs, and monitors configuration setup, versions, locations, maintenance schedules and usage.