RFID is applied to digital warehouse management in the clothing industry

Fashion items are shipped from factories every day, and the cost of manually inventorying, managing out-of-stocks and preventing theft of these items continues to rise. Retailers are under pressure to maximize return on investment in business processes. With radio frequency identification (RFID), business intelligence is available across the entire enterprise value chain, providing critical information for fast and accurate business decisions. RFID has evolved into a mature solution that provides a clearer and more accurate view of inventory, resulting in fewer out-of-stocks, higher sales, and reduced cycle counting effort.

As the volume of production and sales business continues to increase, and the types of goods increase, some problems that need to be solved gradually emerge. First of all, it is an extremely large and cumbersome task to manually manage all types of goods entering and leaving the warehouse. In addition to manual scanning and input of barcodes, information also needs to be confirmed in multiple links; secondly, traditional barcodes The system has obvious shortcomings, such as easy contamination, breakage, need to stop and wait for scanning one by one, manual scanning is labor-intensive, etc. The batch reading efficiency is not high and cannot meet the needs of fast and accurate; moreover, it is not suitable for multiple packages of whole boxes. For bulk orders, the packaging boxes must be disassembled and assembled one by one, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive and can easily lead to errors and omissions.

In recent years, infringements such as imitation and counterfeiting of brands have emerged one after another. However, due to the lack of effective anti-counterfeiting means, the economic interests and brand value of enterprises have been greatly affected.

In response to the above problems, we adopt RFID solutions and use digital management systems to conduct information management of the entire purchase, sale and inventory process of warehouse management, and integrate it with existing enterprise information systems to build a digital warehouse that is equipped with modern commercial enterprises. management system. It can not only meet the requirements of the distribution operation mode in modern logistics, but also be suitable for large-scale busy logistics distribution and ensure high-quality data exchange in the supply chain. Improving the transparency of the chain can effectively improve the level of warehousing and Logistics Management, save labor costs, and play a huge role in the management of commodity supply chain links.

Introducing RFID technology into existing warehouse management can also automatically collect data from warehouse arrival inspection, warehousing, outbound, allocation, warehouse shifting, inventory counting and other operational aspects to ensure that all aspects of warehouse management are The speed and accuracy of data input ensure that enterprises can timely and accurately grasp the real data of inventory, and reasonably maintain and control enterprise inventory. Through full integration with existing enterprise ERP systems, the batches and sources of goods can also be easily managed, automatic comparison of inbound and outbound orders can be achieved, and alarms can be automatically issued when abnormalities occur. By using the system's warehouse location management function, you can know the current location of all inventory materials in a timely manner, which will help improve the efficiency of warehouse management.

RFID electronic tags have a globally unique ID code that cannot be copied and can fundamentally solve the anti-counterfeiting problem.

In the past two years, Meibang has expanded rapidly, with annual clothing output exceeding 100 million pieces, Stores expanding to 3,000, and warehousing capacity increasing to 300,000 square meters... The burden on the supply chain has been greatly increased, especially as inventory imports and exports have skyrocketed, and warehousing has The efficiency of checking and selecting goods has declined rapidly, and goods are delayed in and out of the warehouse. This makes regional warehouses always overcrowded, which has become the key to restricting the rapid linkage of the entire supply chain. For this reason, Smith Barney once lowered the warehousing sampling inspection rate to 15% to improve efficiency. As a result, out-of-stock, wrong delivery, and over-delivery incidents occurred frequently.

Once an RFID tag is added to the clothing, there is no need to unpack or inspect the goods when entering and leaving the warehouse, and the goods can be quickly transferred in batches. According to current technology, using an RFID scanner, the reading rate of a box of 100 pieces of clothing within 50-100cm is 100%. In this way, how many pieces of each type of clothing are there in the whole box, and how are the different colors and sizes distributed? It is clear that boxes of goods can be scanned at once and passed quickly. There is no need to review each piece like a barcode, which greatly improves the efficiency of goods entering and leaving the warehouse and breaks through the bottleneck of inefficiency in the supply chain.

By the same token, the retail side also gains more convenience. In the receiving process, the type and quantity of pre-received goods can be set through the background. It does not require many people to participate. A simple scan can be completed quickly. When taking inventory, place the goods on a dedicated inventory table. The variety, color, size, and number of pieces can be clearly seen at a glance. If the shelves of key products are not "all colors and codes", the system will notify the store staff to replenish the goods so that the shelves can "change according to the times"...