Increase Store Sales with Inventory Visibility from RedBeam RFID
Track item-level product details as merchandise moves into the backroom, onto the store floor, and out the door. Take more accurate, efficient cycle counts while also addressing shrink.
Make It Easy to Keep Inventory Moving
Lack of visibility into where inventory is located – the backroom or the store floor – can be a major problem in retail.
Yet, receiving and locating inventory with manual scanning methods is time-consuming, error-prone, and highly dependent on the knowledge and skill level of your staff.
This inefficient misalignment can lead to stockouts, lost sales, and poor customer satisfaction.
RedBeam RFID offers easy-to-use features that give you:
Real-time inventory visibility from receipt to store floor.
Accurate, “serialized each” tracking at the individual item detail level.
Automated updates to your back-end systems.
Enhanced loss prevention capabilities.
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Simply Powerful Retail Inventory Tracking
A modern cloud-based solution, RedBeam RFID for retail supports employees’ ability to track inventory at the “serialized each” (i.e., style, size, color, etc.) or individual unit level.
This also means your ERP, POS, and merchandising systems get automated access to the detailed data they need to improve forecasting, replenishment, and other important activities.
Here’s how it works.
Automatically identify every inventory item that arrives at your location with an RFID tag already attached.
Either a fixed RFID reader deployed at your receiving area entrance or an employee equipped with a handheld RFID reader can capture all individual item tag reads in seconds.
For inventory that arrives without RFID tags, including things like store returns, an employee with a printer/encoder can easily create and attach tags as needed.
RedBeam RFID APIs notify your back office systems with detailed data on the exact items received into your back room.
Use the RedBeam RFID app to periodically take cycle counts of your back room (and, optionally, your sales floor) with minimal effort and disruption.
Head off normal inventory discrepancies.
Quickly identify problems like mis-shelving and shrink for faster remediation.
With a fixed RFID reader installed at the transition point between your back room and sales floor, RedBeam RFID can update product availability in your ERP, POS, or merchandising system as soon as goods reach the floor.
For tracking high-value or frequently diverted inventory, add as many fixed and handheld readers as needed to capture product movement every step of the way.
To help prevent loss and reconcile inventory discrepancies, additional fixed RFID readers can also be installed at all store exits.
RedBeam RFID for Retail Highlights
Modernize your retail inventory tracking capabilities with a SaaS solution that offers things like –
The ability to remotely manage reader power and cool down settings to only record inventory in motion.
Notifications to trigger API-to-back office system inventory movement updates.
Optional on-site light bar notifications to alert store employees when tags are being read as they cross a threshold.
A mobile RFID app that uses a visual “Geiger counter-like” function to help store employees find misplaced inventory, quickly and efficiently.
Zebra RFID Hardware & Supplies for Retail
Protect your solution investment with devices from Zebra Technologies, the industry leader in RFID. Retail-ready options include –
High-performance mobile RFID readers for accurate cycle counts – like the RFD40 Premium Plus with an industry-best 1,300+ tag reads per second and optimized read range.
Fixed, transition, and portal RFID readers for seamless inventory tracking and loss prevention – like the rugged FX9600 and the retail-specific FXP20.
We’ll work with your team to select the right devices for your needs.
Share Inventory Data with All Your Systems
Create a unified view of your inventory data across all your retail sites.
RedBeam RFID uses REST APIs to integrate with your existing ERP, POS, and merchandising systems. Real-time inventory updates enable better forecasting, replenishment, and accounting, helping you maximize sales and efficiency. Schedule a demo.
REDBEAM RFID CASE STUDY
Sportswear Company Gets a Performance Boost
A leading sportswear company needed inventory visibility it could share with its merchandising and forecasting systems.
Although it tracked inventory at individual store locations, its back-end systems were unable to see what specific inventory items were on the store floor, available to sell.
This lack of visibility caused a lag in its ability to react to replenishment needs, creating potential out of stock situations.
RedBeam RFID offered this company a solution that fit its needs to a tee.
The system tracks each unit of apparel discretely, including details on the item’s style, size, color, and more.
Fixed RFID readers track retail product at three in-store locations –
rear receiving door
stock room
sales floor
RedBeam RFID provides updates on all inventory item locations to the company’s Nedap merchandising solution.
With no more having to guess how many shirts are out front versus in the backroom, this customer has dramatically reduced its receiving time. It is also seeing increased inventory accuracy, which it attributes to automating its stock-to-floor movement.
Track Your Way to Fewer Stockouts, Happier Customers
As the use cases for RFID in retail expand and industry adoption continues to spread, now’s the perfect time to explore how it can make a difference in your store. Let’s talk.
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Frequently Asked Questions
While any retailer can benefit from using RedBeam RFID, those likely to realize the biggest advantages include –
Vertically integrated retailers. These companies can more easily implement upstream product tagging, which maximizes the benefits of RFID throughout their supply chain.
Retailers with high-volume or high-value environments. While RFID can provide microlocation information at the shelf level, this typically requires larger investments that may be more justifiable in high-volume or high-value retail settings.
Omnichannel retailers. RFID technology is particularly beneficial for retailers offering services like buy online, pick up in store, and curbside pickup, as it provides accurate in-store inventory numbers.
The RedBeam RFID solution for retail has unlimited scalability from a hardware and inventory tracking standpoint. As your retail operations grow, you can continue adding as many readers as you need, to track as many items as you want.
From a volume of data standpoint, however, there are some considerations you’ll want to take into account as your retail business needs change. RedBeam RFID’s “serialized each” tracking capabilities mean that fixed readers can produce significant volumes of read transactions within a short period of time. In order to prevent the system from bogging down with reads that are no longer relevant, we recommend purging older RFID reads on a regular basis, every 30 days or so, depending on your particular operations.
For decades, retailers struggled to reconcile the promises of RFID with its upfront effort and costs. Not any more.
Thanks to retail industry championing and ongoing innovation, RFID is more accessible than ever. Just as importantly, RAIN alliance RFID label standards have gained widespread adoption, and tag prices have dropped significantly.
All these forces have helped pull down the barriers to entry around RFID. The big takeaway right now is this: RFID systems like RedBeam RFID capture and share valuable data about your business in real-time.
Here’s just one example of why this is important. Retailers, like all businesses, are regularly bombarded with messaging around new AI use cases – for things like forecasting, merchandising, and so on. RedBeam RFID is able to provide the type of real-time granular, serialized inventory tracking data that has the potential to make those AI use cases truly actionable.
