A logistics group in southern Brazil has cut a full warehouse stocktake from as much as 14 days to around 30 minutes, using RFID tagging alongside workflow automation and real-time data integration. Grupo Asia Shipping, a Brazilian freight forwarding and logistics operator, published the figures in September 2026, covering its three warehousing and distribution sites in the state of Santa Catarina.
The system behind the change was built by Horus Logistica (Hórus Logística in Portuguese), a Santa Catarina warehousing business that Asia Shipping bought in 2024. It brings together radio frequency identification, automation, artificial intelligence and live monitoring of operations in one platform.
The stocktaking figure is the headline, but it is not the only one. Cargo checking, the goods verification step carried out before loading, used to take about two hours and now takes five to ten minutes. Time spent by trucks at the loading docks fell from roughly five hours to between 30 and 40 minutes. Asia Shipping puts the overall productivity gain at 80 per cent, and says one member of staff can now get through work in a given period that previously could have needed up to four people.
Reading a whole pallet instead of scanning each box
The gain comes from bulk reading. During despatch and stocktaking, RFID tags on the goods are read across many cases and parcels at once, so nobody has to check each item on its own. The platform then compares what it has read against what the order says should be there, and flags any discrepancy before the vehicle is loaded.
Neither company has stated publicly which frequency band or air interface standard is in use at these sites, so this article does not attribute one to them. As general background, reading large numbers of tagged cases on a loaded pallet without line of sight is characteristic of passive UHF RFID in warehousing, and the RFID glossary sets out how the frequency bands differ in practice.
Order entry through to the gate
The platform follows the whole chain from order entry to despatch, pulling stock levels, picking, pallet building and vehicle movements in and out of the site into one view. Customers can check their own stock, movements and performance indicators in real time rather than waiting for a report. Squeezing the gaps between goods receipt, processing and picking means some operations can despatch on the same day the order arrives, a model the group refers to as D0.
“Logistics is trying to cut the time goods spend sitting still inside the operation itself,” said Silvio Fernandes, CEO of Horus Logistica. “Checking, stocktaking, processing and waiting at the docks are stages that anyone outside the warehouse barely notices, but they affect cost, productivity and delivery times.”
Two further pieces sit on top of the tag reads. An AI assistant answers questions by text or voice about how many orders have been picked, which vehicles are on the docks and how the shift is progressing. An electronic checklist covers goods receipt, despatch and returns, capturing driver and vehicle details, the condition of the load, images and signatures; 827 of those checklists were generated in the first three weeks of use. Automatic image capture during the checking step is planned but not yet live.
The three Santa Catarina sites total 20,000 square metres and serve more than 50 registered client companies, with some units licensed by Anvisa, Brazil’s health regulator, to handle pharmaceutical and healthcare products. Asia Shipping also installed pallet racking that it says lifted storage capacity by 20 per cent without taking up any more floor area. The group is now assessing whether to run the same operation in São Paulo, and says tender processes are under way.
More deployments of this kind are collected in the Logistics and Asset Tracking sections of RFID News.
