Application of RFID in clothing retail

The apparel Retail Industry relies on RFID solutions to provide complete, real-time inventory visibility throughout the entire supply chain of apparel and facilitate apparel industry practitioners in formulating omni-channel strategies.

Apparel retailers needed a system to help them manage and count inventory more efficiently. They conducted in-depth research and initially developed an RFID solution to provide the retail industry with complete inventory visibility from manufacturing to warehouses to retail Stores.

As fast-moving consumer goods, there are many types of clothing, and they are updated very quickly throughout the year. For a product in a manufacturing company - a hat: variations in its design and production process include plain colors, prints, up to 20 styles, and different colors and sizes. This adds up to approximately 5,000 SKUs per year, and there are 20,000 SKUs in enterprise production systems at any one time.

Apparel manufacturers, distributors and retailers need more accurate inventory and inventory counting throughout the supply chain to minimize stock-outs and maximize sales.

RFID clothing supply chain management solution:

RFID tags – RFID electronic tags that comply with the EPC global Gen2 ISO/IEC 18000-6c protocol are affixed to clothing during the manufacturing process. Usually RFID electronic tags are implanted into clothing tags or clothing woven labels, and their appearance is the same as that of ordinary clothing. no difference.

RFID clothing woven label

Handheld reader - read an entire shelf of products with just one swipe

Printer – a new generation of thermal printer that supports barcode printing and RFID encoding writing functions

Stationary Reader – A large Library-borrowing-machine-touch-query-intelligent-terminal-all-in-one-machine.html target='_blank'>workstation in a warehouse used to read incoming and outgoing packaged products without the need for unpacking inspection.

Advantages of RFID in clothing retail:

l Understand all product inventory information in the entire supply chain in real time and accurately

l Be prepared for omni-channel retailing

l Leverage local manufacturing capabilities to restock best-selling products faster

l Fully integrated with the company’s original retail system

l Retail associates can easily find inventory across the entire store network, increasing sales and customer satisfaction

l Improve inventory counting accuracy and reduce human errors

l Fully exploit the potential of retail space by optimizing inventory levels