TFC<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s VMI solutions, ultimately giving manufacturers better visibility and control over their supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\nVMI Smart Solutions are enterprise-level, cloud-based supply chain management solutions. They give customers real-time visibility over who is using what and where in a manufacturing facility or warehouse, to vastly improve health and safety, security, compliance and part availability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The solutions are powered by technology from Inventor-e, including state-of-the-art cloud-based software, Sourcerer, which controls the supply chain for Inventor-e\u2019s range of patented inventory management solutions. These include stores management, industrial vending, asset management, van stock management and point-of-use solutions. The equipment uses technology including weight sensors, near field communication (NFC), passive Gen2 RFID, Bluetooth Smartie tags and smart apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Customers will benefit from on-time production, smarter stockholding and local support from TFC to bring about positive cash flow benefits, facilitate growth and enhance profitability. By keeping equipment in a secure and controlled location that can be easily accessed by authorised personnel, VMI Smart Solutions give employees the right equipment, at the right time, so that they can efficiently do their jobs. All systems are flexible, so they can be easily scaled up or down based on demand to reduce overstocking while preventing stockouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To help manufacturers across the UK and Ireland improve visibility and control over their supply chains, has partnered with Inventor-e to deliver tailored vendor managed inventory solutions. Vendor managed inventory (VMI) Smart Solutions provides production managers with real-time visibility to improve health and safety, compliance, security and component supply. Manufacturers l benefit from increased production …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,199],"tags":[10214,7458,10212,10213],"class_list":["post-21691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-design","category-news-views-and-opinion","tag-inventor-e","tag-tfc","tag-vendor-managed-inventory","tag-vmi"],"yoast_head":"\n
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