Case Study: Cobham Defense Electronics achieves full ROI in six months with RFgen Software

Defense manufacturer puts RFgen Mobile Solutions to work in the stockroom and realizes a complete return on investment in only six months

Cobham Defense Electronics, a defense manufacturer of microwave components, faced a heavily manual stockroom with 2,500 unfulfilled backorders, extreme overtime, and slow, paper-based traceability. To automate picking, kitting and inventory transactions they selected RFgen Software’s mobile solution (RFgen Mobile Foundations for SAP) to integrate wireless barcode scanning and label printing with their SAP environment.

RFgen Software customized core stockroom transactions and enabled real‑time, bi‑directional data capture with wireless scanners and printers, streamlining traceability and kitting. The deployment delivered a full ROI in six months, eliminated the 2,500 backorders, cut overtime costs by 25%, improved direct labor efficiency by 30%, and reduced kitters from 16 to 12, with Cobham expanding RFgen into additional processes.

Cobham Defense Electronics

Tony Navarro

Stockroom, Shipping & Receiving Supervisor