Pulp & Paper
Benefits
- Correct stock data in real-time
- Increased operational performance
- Less loading errors
- Less frequent inventory
- Elimination of labor requirements at ports
- Knowledge of exact units shipped
- Prevent sending wrong units
- Real-time data about consumption for the end customer
- End customer is less tied in capital in VMI
For pulp companies, Vilant provides a ready RFID solution through which they can increase control of pulp movements and its stock levels. By applying RFID tags to individual pulp shipments pulp companies can track the pulp throughout the supply chain and know exactly when it has arrived at the warehouse, when it is delivered at the mill and finally, the customers can track pulp as it is being consumed. The whole supply chain becomes considerably more precise and generates significant savings in pulp flow management.
Paper finishing, previously a labor-intensive operation, is becoming increasingly automated. Today the finishing machine control systems already administer all operations and communicate with the mill’s other information systems. Vilant offers a ready Roll identification and monitoring solution with RFID – making it possible to raise production efficiency and improve utilization rates.
An additional application is rail car tracking with RFID. It combines pulp information with rail car information by utilizing passive Gen2 RFID tags both on the pulp and the rail cars. This can increase the reliability of loading information at the mills and the performance of goods receive process at the ports. It enables tracking in real time the location of the trains between the mill and the port or terminal.
