Picking and packing operations today operate across every industry. Often these operations rely upon batch picking where product is picked out of storage location in large quantities and staged into areas adjacent to the packers. Then a multitude of packers pick the items required for their orders and place them into shipping boxes.

Due to the shear amount of volume that runs through these areas and time constraints, scanning a barcode for each item before placing it into a box is usually too costly. That is why a majority of businesses rely on the packer to get the proper items and quantities into the box as defined by the order. Since packers are human, mistakes are made, and many operations then implement the use of scales to help determine (based upon arbitrary weights and prorating) whether the box contents are correct.

Introducing RFID technology into this process can help increase the accuracy while at the same time not reduce the speed in which a box may be packed and readied for shipment.

An RFID tag may be placed on each item for identification. An RFID reader may be installed at the packing station. As the items are placed into the box they are read automatically. If the wrong items or wrong amounts of an item are placed into a box as compared to the order the packer can be notified immediately.