ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the mobility opportunities, the benefits of mobility, the various mobility solutions for manufacturing and supply-chain management, and a case study of a mobility solution for radio frequency identification (RFID)-based bonded-warehouse management. Mobility has a significant role to play in a world where the manufacturing and supply-chain industry is looking for improved business processes and automations to reduce cycle times, overproduction, and underutilized resources and to beat the stiff competition. The various mobility solutions under the category help in production automation, leading to better utilization of resources, quick turnarounds, better control over the manufacturing process, and increased worker productivity. Mobility solutions when combined with automatic identification and data collection techniques such as RFID and barcode labels can fully automate the inventory management process, including keeping track of the warehouse inventory, and reorders., leading to the prevention of over and underproduction scenarios.
