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Alien Technology, in partnership with STS, has recently implemented a retail level garment tracking system with LCWaikiki in Istanbul, Turkey.
LCWaikiki is a fast-growing apparel retailer and, as a result of the RFID garment tagging project, the company has been able to significantly improve efficiency in stocktaking and stock transfer, as well as improve ROI.
Flagship store trial
STS Technology, a leading RFID systems integrator in Turkey and a member of Alien Technology's Value Added Solutions Provider (VASP) channel partner network, installed the RFID garment tagging system at LCWaikiki's flagship store in downtown Istanbul.
STS used an RFID/EAS combo hard tag to tag each of the twenty-four thousand articles of clothing LCWaikiki sells for men, women and children.
"We have noticed that using different vendors for tags and readers can lead to a lack of accountability in the application's success. It was very important to us that one vendor guarantee the complete solution by providing both readers and tags," said Levent Yalcinkaya, Technopark Director for STS.
Item-level tagging
Every unique article of clothing at LCWaikiki's flagship store is tagged with a single hard tag that encases both an EAS (electronic article surveillance) anti-theft sensor and an Alien UHF/EPC compliant Gen 2 Squiggle-Short inlay.
The RFID portion of the tag enables LCWaikiki to track all processes from stock receipts, stockroom/sales replenishment, inventory management, product detection, customer returns, stocktaking and store-to-store transfers.
As a result of the RFID deployment, LCWaikiki has seen a 60% time reduction in stocktaking and a 70% time saving in the transfer of stock from the storeroom to the sales area. The next phase in the project will involve rolling out the solution to all 190 of LCWaikiki's stores nationwide.
Sources: Alien Technology Corporation; STS Technology; LCWaikiki
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