Retail Inventory Tracking Software

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.

Receiving and locating inventory with manual scanning methods is time-consuming, error-prone, and highly dependent on the skill of your staff. Getting it wrong leads to stockouts, lost sales, and dissatisfied customers.

RedBeam RFID offers an easy-to-use retail tracking system with features that give you:

Real-time inventory visibility from receipt to store floor.
Accurate, “serialized each” (i.e., style, size, color, etc.) tracking at the item detail level.
Automated updates to your back-end systems.
Enhanced loss prevention capabilities.

Simply Powerful Retail Inventory Tracking

A modern cloud-based solution, RedBeam RFID’s retail inventory software tracks inventory at the individual unit level. This gives your backend systems the detailed data they need to improve forecasting and replenishment.

Receive inventory

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.

Take cycle counts

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.

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Track inventory to the floor

With a fixed RFID reader installed at the transition point between your back room and sales floor, RedBeam RFID can update product locations in your ERP, POS, or merchandising system – giving you direct visibility of on shelf availability (OSA).

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 Retail Tracking System Highlights

Modernize your retail inventory tracking capabilities with a SaaS solution that gives you complete control for monitoring your physical items.

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Fixed Reader Management

Remotely manage your fixed RFID readers’ power and cool down settings to only record inventory in motion.

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Inventory Movement Notifications

Trigger the RedBeam API to send backend system updates on real-time inventory location changes.
Alert store employees when tags are being read as they cross a threshold with optional on-site light bar notifications.

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Mobile App That Increases Staff Productivity

Use the RedBeam mobile app and a handheld RFID reader in “Geiger counter” mode to find misplaced inventory, quickly and efficiently.

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Zebra RFID Hardware & Supplies for Store Inventory Control

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 FX7500 or rugged FX9600 and ATR7000.
The industrial-grade ZT411, which offers rugged durability for printing and encoding RFID tags as needed in your back room.

We’ll work with your team to select the right devices for your needs.

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 retail inventory 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What types of retailers benefit most from RedBeam RFID?

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.

How scalable is RedBeam RFID’s retail inventory tracking system?

Our retail inventory tracking system 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.

How does RedBeam RFID’s store inventory software help prepare companies for future technological advances?

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 store inventory tracking data that has the potential to make those AI use cases truly actionable.

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RETAIL INVENTORY TRACKING SOFTWARE

Increase Store Sales with Inventory Visibility from RedBeam RFID

Make It Easy to Keep Inventory Moving

RedBeam RFID offers an easy-to-use retail tracking system with features that give you:

Simply Powerful Retail Inventory Tracking

Receive inventory

Take cycle counts

Track inventory to the floor

RedBeam RFID Retail Tracking System Highlights

Fixed Reader Management

Inventory Movement Notifications

Mobile App That Increases Staff Productivity

Zebra RFID Hardware & Supplies for Store Inventory Control

Sportswear Company Gets a Performance Boost

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Share Retail Inventory Data with All Your Systems

Track Your Way to Fewer Stockouts, Happier Customers

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Frequently Asked Questions

What types of retailers benefit most from RedBeam RFID?

How scalable is RedBeam RFID’s retail inventory tracking system?

How does RedBeam RFID’s store inventory software help prepare companies for future technological advances?

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