Developing and implementing an Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM) system involves a series of consumer choices like those we make in the course of purchasing an automobile. We select dealerships with solid reputations and models with features that best fit our lifestyle at prices we are willing to pay. For major purchases, we take care to define our needs and perhaps do a little research by consulting a consumer guide.

The same process can be applied to each of the choices you make while developing your company’s AIM system:

• Selecting the right solution provider
• Software
• Consumables, and
• Data collection terminals to ensure integrated success.

Some companies prefer to have the entire solution designed and built for them, while others want guidance from someone to determine what would best fit their needs, then go out and build it themselves.

As your company makes this investment, look to AIM to provide the information you need to identify process changes and the business partners that can help address them.