The Kyaia Group’s innovative RFID solution was developed for FLY London to improve efficiency throughout the logistics chain.
In addition to optimising processes and helping to control loss prevention in the supply chain, the solution adds value in-store by incorporating an RFID Smart Floor which allows customers to try on a pair of shoes and look at an image of themselves on a screen in real time.
The Project was developed by a consortium of six companies, including the Kyaia Group. Creativesystems developed and installed the entire solution, Avery Dennison supplied the RFID UHF inlays and tickets, Surfaceslab developed the RFID UHF Smart Floor, the Portuguese Shoe Technological Center (CTCP) provided business consultancy and technological support and INESC Porto assisted with software design optimisation and forecasting algorithms. Project ShoeID was also co-funded by the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) through the operational programme ON2 - O Novo Norte and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The key elements of the project are ensuring that the store manager knows, at any particular time, what is in stock, what is on the shop floor and what needs to be reordered. In the warehouse (distribution centre) production control and logistics are fully integrated with RFID technology in order to maximise logistics optimisation, productivity and flexibility.
The ShoeID solution enables FLY London to track inventory from when products leave the manufacturing site until they arrive at stores. Once a pair of shoes is manufactured, factory workers attach a paper hangtag containing an EPC Gen 2 passive UHF RFID inlay to one of the shoes; this has a unique ID number linked to the software platform, which holds information about the product's stock-keeping unit (SKU), style and size.
Handheld readers are used in store to capture the shoe tag's ID directly through the closed shoeboxes. The handheld readers use a Wi-Fi network to forward that ID to the software platform, indicating what has been received and maintaining an inventory record of the quantity of the product that is available at the store.
Thanks to a RFID Smart Floor, a customer can try on a pair of shoes and look at their own image recorded by a video camera. The image, however, will not show the customer standing in the store itself, but rather in front of busy street scenes in Tokyo, London or New York, depending on the style of shoe they are trying on.
The solution also includes a RFID UHF POS (point of sale) solution and a loss prevention RFID UHF EAS solution, which sets off an alarm if shoes that have not been purchased are carried out the door.
The CS.Retail software, which manages all RFID equipment and data, is integrated with FLY London's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to manage inventory tracking. With this solution, FLY London has gained the following benefits: at the warehouse, the inbound and the outbound processes are automated, thus reducing labour time and increasing distribution efficiency; at the shops, inventories are accurately managed without any effort on the part of the floor staff; overall cost reduction by increasing efficiency for all logistics processes and direct impact on financial results due to an increase in sales and cost reduction.
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