Microsoft

This Microsoft customer is one of world's largest providers of products and services to oil and gas industry. The customer’s monthly manual drill bit inventory reconciliation was not only labor intensive and inefficient, but was costing sales and sales opportunities.

Critical Path Strategies facilitated a collaborative effort that included Microsoft, the customer, Intel, and several RFID subject matter experts to deliver customized, efficient, cost-effective digital enabling technology that would allow customer to track and manage assets globally.

Microsoft:

Placed tactical focus on large opportunities
Broadened view of opportunities
Improved partnerships with customers
Increased share of customer spend

Customer:

Improved drill bit tracking
Increased visibility to assets
Faster order fulfillment and delivery to customers
Better control of business data and sales pipeline
Automated inventory process
Reduced manual data entry