Systems and methods for managing inventory of aggregated post-consumer goods
Systems and methods for placing a radio frequency identifier (RFID) tag on a bale, reading the RFID tag on the bale, and updating a storage repository that includes information pertaining to the bale. The systems and methods can be used to allow inventory management of bales for quality control.
1 . A method comprising:
a) placing at least one radio frequency identifier (RFID) tags on a group of products;
b) reading the at least one RFID tags on the group of products; and
c) updating a storage repository comprising information pertaining to the groups of products.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the group of products is a bale.
3 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
d) repeating step b); and
e) repeating step c).
4 . The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
f) comparing information collected in step c) with information collected in step e).
5 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
g) performing one or more quality control routines if the information collected in step c) is different from the information collected in step e).
6 . The method of claim 4 , wherein said comparing comprises at least one of:
i) determining a change in a total number of bales;
ii) determining a change in a location of one or more bales; and
iii) determining a change in a number of bales in a classification.
7 . The method of claim 2 , wherein said storage repository comprises at least one classification for the bale.
8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein said classification comprises at least one of a quality of bale, a baler operator, a pressure applied by a baler during a baling operation, a location of a bale during a baling operation, a date of a baling operation, a time of a baling operation, and a weather condition during a baling operation.
9 . The method of claim 2 , wherein said at least one RFID tag comprises information pertaining to at least one of a quality of bale, a baler operator, a pressure applied by a baler during a baling operation, a location of the bale, a date of a baling operation, a time of a baling operation, and a weather condition during a baling operation.
10 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising writing at least one information pertaining to the groups of products to the at least one RFID tags.
11 . A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing a computer to:
a) read at least one radio frequency identifier (RFID) tag on a group of products;
b) update a storage repository comprising information pertaining to the group of products.
12 . The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the group of products is a bale.
13 . The computer program product of claim 12 , further comprising instructions for causing a computer to:
c) repeat instruction a); and
d) repeat instruction b).
14 . The computer program product of claim 13 , further comprising instructions for causing a computer to:
e) compare information collected in step b) with information collected in instruction d).
15 . The computer program product of claim 14 , further comprising instructions for causing a computer to:
f) perform one or more quality control routines if the information collected in instruction b) is different from the information collected in instruction d).
16 . The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein said comparing instructions comprise instructions for causing a computer to:
i) determine a change in total number of bales;
ii) determine a change in location of one or more bales; and
iii) determine a change in number of bales in a classification.
17 . The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein said storage repository instructions comprise instructions to assign at least one classification for the bale.
18 . The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein said classification instructions comprise at least one of a quality of bale, a baler operator, a pressure of baler, a location of the bale, a date, a time, and a weather condition.
19 . The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein said reading instructions comprise instructions to read from an RFID tag at least one of a quality of bale, a baler operator, a pressure of baler, a location of the bale, a date, a time, and a weather condition.
20 . The computer program product of claim 11 , further comprising instructions for causing a computer to write at least one information pertaining to the group of products to the at least one RFID tags.