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HIRE AND RENTAL NEWS • APRIL/MAY 2015
INDUSTRY in FOCUS
By integrating Positek RFID with Point-of-Rental inventory
management software, asset counts are automated, giving rental
businesses the unique ability to update inventory based on RFID scans.
Applying this technology to the linen business, Prime Time Party
Rental, a long time Point-of-Rental customer, served as the beta-test
site for the new service. Utilising either stationary or fixed RFID readers
with Positek tagged items, instantaneous counts are added to Point-
of-Rental software to validate contracts, plus charge for missing or
damaged items.
Prime Time Party Rental was the perfect customer to test the RFID
capabilities. The company has a proven track record of excellent
customer service and top-notch rental products to meet and exceed
the expectations of clients.
Bart Nye, President of Prime Time Party Rental of Dayton, Ohio is
exuberant about where RFID can go in the rental industry. “My drivers
love RFID! They love the assurance of getting the right items to the
right customer.”
“Even more, having asset history per item gives rich ROI on each
individual item and I now have the ability to write off a linen at its true
usage in the cycle.”
In the rental industry, linens are returned in bags and then hand-
counted. This manual process is fraught with errors and results in
missing and wrongly classified linens, which can negatively impact
customer relations.
With RFID, multiple orders can be checked in immediately and
accurately with the click of the RFID reader. “With rental inventory so
deep and wide, it’s imperative to keep track of everything in real-time,
second by second, and now, with the click of a button, I can,” Bart said.
Bart first approached Positek about tagging linens with RFID tags over
four years ago.
“Since then, the technology enhancements in RFID have made that
dream a reality and with all my assets tagged, I now know truly where
all my losses are.”
Prime Time for RFID with Point-of-Rental
Bobby Olsen, Senior Applications Analyst for Point-of-Rental, was
instrumental in driving the programming to ensure the integration
between Point-of-Rental and Positek RFID.
He said: “This is an exciting time for our company and our customers.
Our rental stores can now eliminate or reallocate huge amounts of
labor spent counting, and even more importantly, they can improve
customer service by knowing if any items are missing at pickup and
which customer should be billed for missing items.”
Industry’s first RFID integration
with rental inventory management
Point-of-Rental software and Positek RFID are
together announcing the first fully integrated
RFID solution for inventory management
software in the rental industry.
“Even more, having asset history
per item gives rich ROI on each
individual item and I now have
the ability to write off a linen at
its true usage in the cycle.”