Checkpoint Launches Enhanced RFID-Based EAS
Overhead Solution
Overhead 2.0 Delivers Real-time Merchandise
Visibility and EAS With OneTag
THOROFARE, N.J. – Nov. 20, 2013 –
Checkpoint Systems, Inc., (NYSE:CKP), a leading global supplier of
merchandise availability solutions for the retail industry, today announced
RFID-based EAS Overhead 2.0, delivering improved inventory visibility and
loss prevention benefits at the point-of-exit.
Overhead 2.0 is a key component of an integrated solution
delivering real-time inventory and demand-driven replenishment. It serves as an
EAS system that alarms and identifies stolen merchandise, improving operations
at the point-of-exit while enhancing the customer shopping experience by helping
to ensure merchandise availability. The Overhead 2.0 leverages the
OneTag approach, a single open-standards RFID tag for both inventory visibility
and loss prevention, simplifying deployment and reducing tag costs
significantly.
Optimized for use by specialty apparel and fashion retailers using RFID for
inventory management, Overhead 2.0 is engineered as a standalone
exit door solution in new and remodeled stores, or with traditional EAS systems
in existing stores as part of a retailer’s RFID adoption strategy. This solution
offers high read accuracy through Wirama Radar, a unique combination of
patented hardware and software that ensures unprecedented data integrity;
retailers can confidently place tagged items at the front of the store without
concern for stray reads causing false alarms.
Overhead 2.0 covers much higher ceilings and wider retail store
entrances than the original Overhead solution, making it an even better fit for
mall-based specialty retailers and department stores. The hardware is also more
compact than previous versions, enabling it to fit in more locations and
offering easier installation.
“With this new version of the Overhead, we can leverage RFID-based EAS in our
new stores with larger entrances,” noted a senior apparel retail executive. “Now
we know what’s leaving the store so we can make sure our shelves are stocked at
all times, quantify our shoplifting problem, and respond confidently to alarms
according to our store policy.”
“By working closely with our retail partners, we were able to better understand
how they planned to use the technology,” said Farrokh Abadi, Checkpoint's
president and COO, Merchandise Availability Solutions. “Even as we increased
item visibility and coverage for higher and wider store entrances, we also
enabled retailers to merchandise hundreds of items closer to the entrance, so
that they can make better use of the valuable space in the front of the store
and add loss prevention to the inventory management benefits the RFID tag
affords.”
Overhead 2.0 is commercially available immediately in North
America, in December in Europe, and in January in Asia Pacific. Live
demonstrations are available upon request in all regions.
Contact:
George Cohen (for Checkpoint)
GCC, Inc.
617-325-0011
george@gccpr.com
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