well for rfid technology i can give some inputs.

all the big warehouses in future will use RFID. maruti has started using radio freq terminals for picking the materials and receiving them. so the others will follow soon.

and since customer has to pay some maintenance fee it generates some revenue even after sales.

well the one maruti is using is supported by wipro so finding a new player here still remains a job. but if we can find one competent and dedicated player then there lies a multibagger because be it warehouses, retails or any other big storage or identification place this technology will be there...

kulman ji maruti is using this technology in warehouse on a major scale and also in assembly line at few places.

what has been done is that RF tags have been developed which have every information regarding a part i.e. its part no., price, lot qty, carton qty, vendor etc.. for a single car model itself you have around 3500-4000 spare parts and 300-700 accesories.

so for all the models combined the total number of different spare parts come to around 40000 or so.

so the pickers and dispatchers re given RF terminals from where they read the rf tags and pick or dispatch the material.

due to implementation of this technology warehouse is running at 95 % + efficiency which used to be 50 % or so while things were done manually.

the hardware is imported because maruti signed the contract 3 years back with a canada based company, but they have a vendor in hyderabad. rf tags re printed in maruti itself and distributed to vendors.

wipro is helpin in maintenance of software installed.

i ll confirm the vendor from whom rf terminals were purchased.

its absolutely fine kulman ji. i ll collect all the details and post my reply here in a day or two.