Park Village Auctioneers (PVA) is the largest auction house in South Africa of
repossessed vehicles. At any time PVA manages between 3,000 and 6,000 vehicles
at 10 different locations. Over the past 12 months, Techsolutions assisted in
migrating PVA from a manual tracking solution using Excel spreadsheets to an
automated RFID based inventory management solution. When a new repossessed
vehicle arrives at a site, it is tagged with a RFID tag and linked to the
vehicle details are extracted from the vehicle license disk. The data is
uploaded to an online database using the handheld RFID/barcode scanner. All site
managers and financial institutions can log in to the web site and view vehicle
details and movements. Taking inventory is fast: it takes about 1 hour to scan
1000 vehicles, so it can be done on a daily basis instead of monthly. The
frustrating month-end stock take bottleneck has now become a legacy. Accuracy
has also been improved substantially.
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