Stock counts that take a full night still end up wrong by the weekend, and an inaccurate stock file kills every ship-from-store promise you make online. We deploy an RFID solution for retail stores that counts a whole floor in minutes - tags, readers, handhelds, software and installation as one engineered project.
A handheld sweep counts an entire apparel floor in under an hour instead of an overnight stocktake.
Tags applied at the vendor or garment factory so stock arrives store-ready with no in-store labelling.
Overhead or pedestal readers detect unpaid tagged items without the false alarms of legacy EAS.
Four workstreams delivered together: the tagging programme, in-store counting and on-shelf availability, loss prevention and RFID-enabled POS, and the stock accuracy that makes omnichannel fulfilment possible.
Where the tag is applied decides the cost of the whole programme. We design the tagging model - vendor, distribution centre or store - and set the GS1 SGTIN encoding, inlay type and placement.
Counting weekly rather than twice a year changes what a store manager can promise. Handheld readers and a guided count workflow reconcile floor and stockroom stock and list missing lines by size and colour.
The same tag that counts stock can secure the door and speed the till. We install exit readers that identify the specific item leaving unsold, and till readers that read a full basket in one pass.
A ship-from-store or click-and-collect promise is only as good as the stock file behind it. Accurate item-level counts let a supply chain head expose store inventory online instead of holding a suppressing buffer.
Hardware selected after a site survey, because a reader that performs in a showroom rarely performs the same way in a stockroom full of metal shelving.
Passive UHF tags conforming to EPC Gen2 and ISO 18000-63, chosen by inlay size, sensitivity and attachment method for each product family.
Handheld sleds for counting, overhead readers for exits and zones, and tunnel readers at goods-in, tuned to that store's radio environment.
RFID label printers and encoding stations at vendor sites or the distribution centre, verifying every tag is written and readable before it ships.
A store app and middleware that filter stray reads, deduplicate events and post clean stock positions to merchandising and order management systems.
Representative outcomes from apparel and footwear retail deployments. Ranges are indicative and must be confirmed against your own baseline before publication.
Multi-store chains carrying deep size and colour ranges where a single missing size is a lost sale.
Boxed stock in dense stockrooms where finding a specific size costs staff hours every day.
Large floors with concessions and several brands feeding into one shared omnichannel stock pool.
The measures a retail operations head, a loss prevention head and a supply chain head each judge the programme on. Targets are agreed before rollout.
Share of tagged items detected during a standard handheld sweep of floor and stockroom.
Target: >98%
How we get there: Achieved through site survey, tag trials on your own products and reader tuning.
Match between the system stock file and a physically verified count at size level.
Target: >97%
How we get there: Sustained by weekly cycle counts rather than one annual wall-to-wall physical stocktake.
Time taken by one operator to complete a full count of floor and stockroom.
Target: Under 2 hours
How we get there: Driven by handheld read speed and a zone-guided workflow that prevents rework.
Stock loss as a percentage of retail value across the tagged store network.
Target: 30-50% reduction
How we get there: Exit readers identify the specific item and time, which changes how investigations run.
Every RFID programme starts with a survey and a pilot store, never a network-wide tag order.
We survey store layouts, fixture materials, stockroom density and radio interference, and review your article master, product mix and current stocktake practice.
Inlay trials on your own garments, reader placement drawings, the encoding standard and integration points are documented and signed off before procurement.
One store is tagged against agreed acceptance criteria on read rate, count time and accuracy, so performance is proven before a chain-wide tag commitment.
Stores are commissioned in waves, vendors onboarded onto source tagging, staff trained on the count workflow, and the system moves into an agreed AMC.
Four reasons retailers ask us to own the whole RFID programme rather than buying tags, readers and software separately.
We test tags on your actual products and fixtures before anyone commits to a tag order. A wrong inlay decision at ten million tags is expensive.
Hardware supply, installation, encoding, middleware and the store application come from one team, so a read-rate problem never becomes a three-way dispute.
We onboard your vendors, supply encoding and verification stations, and audit tag quality on inbound stock so the programme does not revert to store tagging.
Integration with your POS, merchandising system and order management platform is scoped inside the project, so RFID data reaches the deciding systems.
Book a site survey with our engineering team. We will assess store layout, fixtures and product mix, trial tags on your own merchandise, and return with a scoped pilot store, a hardware bill of materials and acceptance criteria.
Talk to Our ExpertsAn RFID solution for retail stores is a complete system that gives every item a unique electronic identity and reads those identities in bulk without line of sight. It combines passive UHF tags encoded to a GS1 SGTIN standard, handheld and fixed readers, exit and point-of-sale readers, and the software that turns millions of raw reads into an accurate item-level stock file. In apparel retail it is used for rapid cycle counting, on-shelf availability, loss prevention and exposing store stock online.
We build it. Tags and readers are hardware we supply, but the tagging strategy, encoding standard, store application, middleware and integrations are engineered for your product mix after a survey. It is a project, not a licence.
We are. Read-rate performance is written into the pilot acceptance criteria, and we own the survey, tag trials, inlay selection, reader placement and power tuning that produce it. Fixture problems are ours to resolve.
Source tagging at the vendor or garment factory is cheaper at scale and lets stock arrive floor-ready. Store or warehouse tagging covers legacy stock, returns and vendors not yet onboarded. Most chains run both.
Yes. We integrate with SAP, Oracle Retail, Ginesys, Microsoft Dynamics and in-house merchandising systems, and with POS platforms for tag deactivation and basket reads. Stock positions publish to your order management system.
No. Handheld counting and exit detection run on in-store infrastructure and continue during an outage, queuing events locally and syncing later. The central platform runs on-premise, in private cloud or managed cloud.
A pilot store is typically live within ten to fourteen weeks of requirement sign-off, including the site survey, tag trials and hardware lead times. Chain-wide rollout then proceeds in waves.
Tag volume is the largest recurring line, followed by handheld and fixed reader counts, encoding infrastructure, integration depth and installation across stores. We provide a scoped proposal after the survey, not a figure before it.
In most apparel formats, yes. RFID exit readers identify the specific item, size and price passing the door rather than raising a tone, which makes investigation far more useful. High-risk categories can run both.
Support runs under an annual maintenance contract covering response times by severity, preventive maintenance and replacement of handhelds and fixed readers, firmware updates, tag quality audits and enhancement requests. On-site coverage is available.