SAP solutions for auto-ID and item serialization enable the following business processes.

• Supply Chain Execution – Companies can identify and track items during supply chain execution, which enhances their ability to support outbound and inbound logistics, tracking, tracing, and reporting on inventory movements and gives them better visibility into their suppliers' shipments and increased accuracy. Companies can perform supply chain execution with the SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure offering or the SAP Auto-ID Enterprise offering together with SAP applications and solutions, such as SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) or SAP Manufacturing, or with other SAP and non-SAP applications.
• Outbound Logistics – Companies can commission and encode tags according to EPCIS standards; pack and load units, cases, and pallets using RFID; issue goods automatically; handle unit-level tracking and tracing; and communicate the status of assets to trading partners via advance-shipping notices.
• Inbound Logistics – Companies can perform automated goods receipt and validation with advance shipping notices, using automatic processing of shipping and receiving based on automatic identification and tracking of items. They can track exceptions and use alerts to flag situations such as out-of-stock status or incorrect shipment quantities.
• Enterprise Asset Management – Companies can track and maintain stationary or reusable assets like facilities, tools, or machinery. Companies can identify equipment, select work orders, record work, and update equipment histories using SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure or SAP Auto-ID Enterprise together with the SAP Service and Asset Management solution. Companies gain new business value through increased efficiency in maintenance and inspections, more accurate and up-to-date asset information, and better safeguarding of plant integrity.