Scaling up RFID deployment and C&A clothing
"never out-of- stock"

Leading apparel retailers and department stores have declared that this is the time for RFID. Understand the best practices for a deployment and practical issues such as rollout planning, tagging strategy, integrating inventory management and loss prevention and integrating RFID data with existing back-end systems. Learn from Joachim Wilkens, Director of Supply Chain Development, C&A Group how their RFID system ensures that "never out of stock" items such as women underwear are always on the shelf.

If you’ve missed the recent RFID Journal ``RFID in retail´´
Virtual Event, you can still find out about how C&A Expands RFID Usage to Track Inventory.

Dutch clothing company C&A is indeed expanding its RFID system from what was initially a trial involving five of its stores in Germany. After a successful trial deployment of an ultrahigh- frequency (UHF) EPC RFID solution in 2012, the firm plans to employ EPC tags and readers to manage shipments of high-demand items to a total of 25 stores, and to use the technology to monitor inventory at each location. The system provides advance shipping notices as goods leave the factory bound for a specific store, as well as inventory data that tracks which goods are in each store's back room and on the sales floor, which have been sold and, in some cases, what has passed through the doors of a particular location. Learn how the system ensures that "never out of stock" (NOS) items (including women and children's underwear, men's and women's jeans, and men's suits, trousers and blazers) are always on the shelf.

Listen to the recording of Joachim Wilkens, Director of Supply Chain Development, C&A Group, talking at the Virtual Event here: http://www.rfidjournal.com/videos/view?1075  (You need to be a Registered of RFID Journal to access the recordings (Registration is free.)

For more details on C&A's RFID implementation with Checkpoint: http://www.checkpointsystems.com/en/news-events/press- releases/2013/CandA.aspx

Want to know about Scaling Up RFID and Best Practices for Chain-Wide Retail Deployments?

Leading apparel retailers and department stores are increasingly building on successful RFID pilots and expanding their deployments to reap chain-wide benefits. How do retailers scale from a single handheld RFID reader to chain-wide inventory management and loss prevention? How do vertically integrated retailers incorporate RFID from source manufacturing and the supply chain through to the store? What do successful enterprise RFID deployments have in common? This session will walk attendees through best practices from real-world retail deployments in North America and Europe, and will address such practical issues as rollout planning, tagging strategy, making the business case for integrating inventory management and loss prevention, and integrating RFID data with existing back-end systems.

Listen to Alan Sherman, Sr. Director of Global Marketing, OATSystems, a division of Checkpoint Systems talking at the Virtual Event here: http://www.rfidjournal.com/videos/view?1079- You need to be a Registered of RFID Journal to access the recordings (Registration is free.)