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Smart Supply Chain: Efficiency Leap from Factory to Warehouse to Store
Project Background:
Our client is a Hong Kong-based clothing brand specializing in men's business attire, such as dress shirts and polo shirts. To keep pace with rapid growth, our client urgently needed to enhance their logistics efficiency and inventory data accuracy. However, the traditional barcode system for tracking goods was insufficient to meet these demands.
Client Pain Points:
- Slow counting of new goods
- Lengthy inventory checks
- Inaccurate inventory data
Solution:
- Upgrade from conventional tags to intelligent RFID tags
- Implement integrated software and hardware solutions across factory, warehouse, and store, supporting various ERP/POS system integrations
- Utilize cloud-based RFID data analysis to enable customized functionalities like inventory aging reports, fitting data collection, consumer preference analysis, and scheduled data push notifications
Solution Value:
Dramatic improvement in operational efficiency
- Warehouse entry efficiency increased by 90%:
RFID technology replaces traditional barcodes, enabling bulk scanning to complete box acceptance, reducing warehouse entry time from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
- Inventory check efficiency increased by 90%:
Store inventory checks (2,500 garments) reduced from 5 hours to 30 minutes, achieving “second-level” bulk scanning.
Accuracy nearing 100%, eliminating human errors
- Receipt accuracy improved to nearly 100% (previous barcode system prone to missed scans and errors)
- Inventory count consistency reached nearly 100%, eliminating human counting errors
Significant labor cost savings, freeing up valuable productivity
- Annual saving of 10,000 hours: Warehousing alone frees up nearly ten thousand hours
- Annual inventory check savings: 5,400 work hours saved across 50 stores conducting bi-monthly checks, equivalent to 675 workdays (based on an 8-hour workday)
4. Empower refined operations, drive intelligent decision-making
- Real-time cloud data sync enables dynamic visual inventory management
- Frequent inventory checks become feasible, enhancing turnover rates and replenishment accuracy
- Support for intelligent fitting mirror and data collection analysis, boosting store product repurchase
“With RFID, our receipt process has been reduced from 2 hours to 15 minutes. Inventory checks that used to take 5 hours now only take half an hour, maintaining nearly 100% accuracy.” - Store Operations Manager of the Client
