Phase 1
Verification
Quantity match at outbound and inbound. Kill the dispute before the invoice ages.
Solution
Five layers, one confirmed quantity.
Packaging becomes the sensor. Readers at the nodes that matter turn a pallet into a count. The platform reconciles that count with the order and the invoice.
- Physical. Passive UHF RFID inlays in product packaging and outer cartons. Bulk pricing in the $0.05–$0.15 range.
- Sensing. Fixed readers, typically $1,500–$3,000, at docks and handover points. Non-line-of-sight, seconds per pallet.
- Network. Secure transmission of read events into the cloud.
- Application. Shared dashboard, exception handling, automated reconciliation, APIs into SAP, Oracle, and adjacent ERPs.
- Intelligence. Analytics first, then predictive signals such as demand and shortage patterns once the event history is dense enough.
Phased rollout
Phase 2
Loss prevention
Same tags, more nodes. Shrink, mis-ships, and own-retail tracking without a second labeling program.
Phase 3
Forecasting
AI on the event stream for demand and exception prediction once a pair has a clean history.
Standards, not a private dialect
Reads and identifiers are aligned with GS1 practice. The same packaging data path is the one EU Digital Product Passport and retail RFID mandates (Sunrise 2027 and retailer programs in the Walmart pattern) are already pushing. IoTally is the verification layer on top of that shift, not a competing barcode religion.