AI Supply Chain ROI Calculator
Put numbers on the three places intelligent asset tracking pays for itself: staff time spent searching, assets lost or replaced unnecessarily, and audit work that AI agents can automate. Adjust the sliders to match your operation.
Operatives, engineers, nurses, technicians: anyone who loses time to searching.
Industry studies put this at 20 to 60 minutes in untracked environments.
Salary plus overheads, in pounds.
Tracked items: equipment, tools, returnable packaging, stock.
Replacement cost per item, in pounds.
Items lost, hoarded, or replaced unnecessarily each year.
Stocktakes, compliance reports, asset registers. AI agents automate a share of this.
~1,558 staff hours recovered per year
- Search time recovered (50% reduction)
- £40,250
- Loss and shrinkage avoided (60% reduction)
- £22,500
- Audit and reporting automated (30%)
- £3,360
Estimates only. Reduction rates draw on the NHS University Hospitals Plymouth RFID deployment (50% search time cut) and typical item-level visibility outcomes. Your baseline survey replaces these assumptions in a scoped proposal.
Where the assumptions come from
The 50% search-time reduction comes from the University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust RFID deployment, where 40,000 tracked devices cut the time nurses spent hunting equipment in half. Loss-reduction and automation rates reflect typical item-level visibility outcomes across itemit enterprise deployments. RedBite grew out of Cambridge Auto-ID Labs, the research group behind the EPC/RFID standards these systems run on.
Read the NHS case study, explore the asset tracking hub, or see how AI agents act on tracking data autonomously.