Belgian clothing retailer JBC has deployed large RFID systems in 144 stores in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. The system uses EPC Gen 2 UHF RFID tag to track clothes in manufacturing place, distribution center and store shelves. The retailer hopes to use RFID technology at the cashier in April 2016.
Using the RFID technology provided by the point protection system, JBC obtained the visibility of 17 million items from 100 different suppliers (1.5 million hanging clothes and 15.5 million flat packaging clothes).
Every commodity sold in JBC stores is attached with an RFID tag provided by the point protection system
Headquartered in houthalen helchteren, Belgium, JBC employs 270 people and is the country's leading clothing retailer. Fred tielens, JBC logistics manager, said: "the company has spent a lot of time studying RFID technology and hopes to launch solutions throughout the supply chain to maximize benefits. The company calls this project the source to store / shopper project."
In 2013, the technology began to be piloted in two stores. At that time, the company began to understand the working principle of the technology and focused on inventory tracking and cashier.
Tielens explained: "the main purpose is to save time by reducing manual QR code scanning operations. In addition, the company also hopes to use this technology to improve inventory accuracy. In this way, staff can spend less time looking for clothes and provide better service."
In February 2015, the company began to install point protection RFID reader and data management software. The project installation was completed in June.
JBC uses the checkpoint's checknet software platform to order RFID tags. About 90% of the labels are sewable into clothing, while the remaining 10% are attached to clothing tags. The company uses four different types of RFID Tags: whirl, champion, high kick and butterfly.
The supplier sews or pastes the label on the clothing product, and binds the label unique ID number and SKU information to each other. At the houthalen helchteren distribution center, the goods marked by these tags will be read through the security point RFID tunnel. After reading the tag, the tag ID number will be transmitted to the point guarantee oat enterprise software running in JBC database to update the commodity status to received. When transported to the store, the clothing also needs to go through the same process.
After the store receives the goods, the staff will place them as needed. Now, employees do not need to read labels, and in the future, the company plans to let employees use Nordic ID Merlin cross dipole handheld reader to read. At present, employees need to use handheld readers for shelf inventory counting.
In the past, the inventory counting frequency of store employees was once a year. Inventory counts are now more frequent. "We will increase the frequency of inventory taking, but we are not ready to do it once a week," tielens said
At the cashier, the employee will use the counter point ID dual (CPID dual) POS device to read the label again. Consumers only need to place their clothes at the cashier, and the device can read the item ID number and transmit this information to oat enterprise software. At present, JBC is still integrating CPID dual, oat software and POS system. The integration of the company's system will be completed before April 2016. At that time, when POS software sells goods, oat software can update the information.
Tielens said that although the company did not calculate cost savings and sales increase, there are signs that the system has saved a lot of time.
JBC system, by obtaining accurate inventory data of each store, the company can deliver goods from the nearest store to online shopping customers, so as to provide a better online shopping experience.
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