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RFID applied to digital warehouse management in the clothing industry

2021-09-10

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Every day, fashion clothes will be shipped out of the factory, and the cost of manual inventory, out-of-stock management and anti-theft of these commodities continues to rise. Retailers are under pressure to maximize the return on investment in business processes. With the help of radio frequency identification (RFID), the entire enterprise value chain can obtain business intelligence, which provides important information for making business decisions quickly and accurately. After continuous development, RFID has become a mature solution, which can be used to understand the inventory situation more clearly and accurately, thereby reducing out-of-stocks, increasing sales and reducing cycle inventory workload.

With the continuous increase in the volume of production and sales and the increasing variety of products, some urgent problems have gradually emerged. First of all, it is an extremely large and cumbersome task to manually manage all types of goods in and out of the warehouse. In addition to the manual scanning and input of barcodes, it also needs to confirm information in multiple links; secondly, traditional barcodes The system has obvious shortcomings, such as easy pollution, breakage, need to stop waiting for scanning one by one, manual scanning is labor-intensive, etc., batch reading efficiency is not high, and it cannot meet the needs of fast and accurate; moreover, for multiple packaging boxes For large orders, the packing boxes must be disassembled one by one, which is time-consuming and laborious and it is easier to introduce mistakes and omissions.


In recent years, brand infringements such as imitation and counterfeiting have emerged one after another, but the lack of effective anti-counterfeiting measures has greatly affected the economic interests and brand value of enterprises.

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In response to the above problems, we use RFID solutions and digital management systems to carry out informatization management of the entire process of inventory management, and integrate with the existing enterprise information systems to build a digital warehouse with modern commercial enterprises. Management system. It can not only meet the requirements of modern logistics distribution mode Enhancing its transparency in the chain can effectively improve the level of warehousing and logistics management, save labor costs, and play a huge role in the management of the commodity supply chain.


Introducing RFID technology into the existing warehouse management, it can also automate the data collection of each operation link such as warehouse arrival inspection, warehousing, outbound, allocation, shifting, inventory counting, etc., to ensure all aspects of warehouse management The speed and accuracy of data input ensure that the company can grasp the real data of the inventory in a timely and accurate manner, and reasonably maintain and control the company's inventory. Through the full integration with the existing enterprise ERP system, it is also convenient to manage the batch and source of the goods, realize the automatic comparison of the goods in and out of the warehouse, and automatically send an alarm when abnormal. Using the system's location management function, you can also grasp the current location of all inventory materials in a timely manner, which is conducive to improving the efficiency of warehouse management.


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


In the past two years, Smith Barney’s large-scale expansion has been extremely rapid, with annual clothing output exceeding 100 million pieces, expansion of stores to 3,000, and storage capacity increased to 300,000 square meters... The burden on the supply chain has greatly increased, especially the soaring inventory in and out. The efficiency of picking and picking goods is rapidly declining, and goods are lagging in and out, making the front door of the regional warehouse always full of cars, 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 rate to 15% in order to improve efficiency. As a result, incidents of out of stock, misdelivery, and over-delivery occurred frequently.


Once the RFID tag is added to the clothing, it is no longer necessary to open the box for inspection or random inspection when entering and leaving the warehouse, and the goods can speed up the batch circulation. According to the current technology, using RFID scanners, the reading rate of a box of 100 garments within 50-100cm is 100%. In this way, how many kinds of garments are in the whole box of goods, how many different colors and sizes are allocated, It is clear that the boxes of goods are scanned at one time and passed quickly. There is no need to review the items one by one like barcodes. This greatly improves the efficiency of goods in and out of the warehouse and breaks the bottleneck of inefficiency in the supply chain.


For the same reason, the retail end also gets more convenience. In the receiving link, the type and quantity of the pre-received goods are set through the background, which does not require a lot of people to participate, and it can be completed quickly by simply scanning. When counting, place the goods on a dedicated counting table, and you can see the variety, color, size, and number of items at a glance. If the shelves of key products fail to be "all colors and codes", the system will notify the clerk to replenish the goods, so that the shelves "change with time"...