UID and RFID Data Correlation for WAWF
For Contracts with both UID and RFID requirements, UID-marked parts are placed into RFID-marked exterior containers. And you have to keep track of which specific UID is in which specific RFID. And you can have multiple UIDs in an RFID and multiple RFIDs for a single UID and parts of multiple UIDs in multiple RFIDs. And then there are RFID pallets on which you put RFID exterior containers in which you put UID parts. It can get pretty complicated.
Once you get your shipment marked, packaged, labeled and otherwise ready for shipment, you have to tell WAWF all about your shipment hierarchy. You need a plan to correlate all that data easily and submit it in a batch transaction without typing all those long IDs.
What do we mean by "correlated data?" Here's the kind of hierarchical data that you must submit to Wide Area Workflow for a UID/RFID shipment -
Contract DLA900-89-X-1234, Shipment MPT0001
CLIN 0001, 8 EA
Pallet RFID 2F02031484C44390000000FF
Case RFID 2F12031484C4439000000100
UID D1HLD9787420000001
UID D1HLD9787420000002
Case RFID 2F12031484C4439000000101
UID D1HLD9787420000003
UID D1HLD9787420000004
Pallet RFID 2F02031484C4439000000132
Case RFID 2F12031484C4439000000103
UID D1HLD9787420000005
UID D1HLD9787420000012
Case RFID 2F12031484C4439000000104
UID D1HLD9787420000077
UID D1HLD9787420000014
The less you have to think about all the separate elements in this list, the better off you are. Ideally, and for most suppliers this can be true, you just create your data as you print your labels and then submit the data to WAWF automatically.
This
article is an excerpt from the DOD Suppliers Guide - "Ten Key Questions
about your UID Plan."
