Patent ID: 8081077

Claim:
A computing system for managing materials of a warehouse, the system comprising: a data storage system for storing information of materials to be imported or exported from the warehouse; a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader having an RFID sensor for scanning a RFID tag of each of the materials when the material is imported to the warehouse or exported from the warehouse, and reading a serial number from the RFID tag of the material; and a computer for receiving the serial number of the material from the RFID reader, the computer comprising: a selecting module configured for determining to select the imported or exported material according to a user's requirement; an allocating module configured for allocating a warehouse location of the warehouse for storing the imported material; an acquiring module configured for acquiring the information of the material from the data storage system according to the serial number of the RFID tag when the material is being entered into the warehouse or exited from the warehouse; and a generating module configured for updating inventory information about the materials of the warehouse in the data storage system.