Japanese Fashion Retailer Finds Inventory with RFID Tool
Industry trends | 2022-10-11 08:51
Japanese apparel company Baroque Japan Ltd. has increased the locating speed and accuracy of its existing radio frequency identification solution with the introduction of a 3D RFID reading application from RFLocus known as P3 Finder, which brings visibility to inventory across 150 of its 700 stores. The company already has UHF RFID tags on all the merchandise it receives, stores and sells, while the P3 Finder app, used on its handheld readers and integrated with Sensormatic's TrueVUE Cloud software, provides access to location data at the stores and distribution center to provide merchandise to customers quickly.
With the P3 Finder radar navigation app built into the company's RFID readers, Baroque Japan is better able to serve the demand for "buy online, pickup in store" (BOPIS) purchasing by ensuring inventory counts at each store remains accurate and up-to-date.
To use the P3 Finder app, employees enter the items for which they are searching into their mobile device, then swing it slowly left and right, and up and down, while moving around the targeted area. The reader sends interrogation signals at a rate of more than 400 times per second to determine each tag's 3D position once that tag responds. As a tag is located, the app displays the item's location as an orange dot on the handheld's screen, and users can then swing the reader again to gain an exact location. When the reader is directly in front of the tagged item, an audible alert sounds.
