Salpomec
Sewing up the competition: You are a logistics leader for the highly competitive garment industry with customers in 35 countries on five continents. Your customers, many of them brand leaders, want to protect their profit margins from product diversion and counterfeiting while maximizing in-store product availability. How can you enhance your offering with a solution that’s made to measure for your customers?
One way is to demonstrate how RFID can significantly enhance supply chain management and in-store operations for key players – garment manufacturers, brand owners, retailers and logistics providers alike. By teaming up with UPM Raflatac and ADT, a provider of electronic security systems, Salpomec has created the world’s first Apparel RFID Solution Center, located in Lahti, Finland. Opened in May 2007, it will play host to up to 100 garment manufacturers, retailers and logistics providers in its first year.
Visitors to the Apparel RFID Solution Center will view an end-to-end supply chain that demonstrates source tagging, automatic goods reception, an RFID-based sorting system, replenishment and store inventory management as well as point-of-sale operations and security to demonstrate the technology’s advantages over conventional inventory management processes. The solution leverages UPM Raflatac’s Web UHF tag to reduce shrinkage and out-of-stocks for retailers, while streamlining operational processes for all retail partners. Says Jarkko Kuusisto, CEO of Salpomec: “Apparel manufacturing often takes place on one continent with the goods being sold in an entirely different location. This increases the demand for up-to-date and accurate information throughout the entire supply chain. RFID can deliver this by offering levels of information and control.”
From the stock room to the store floor, RFID’s ability to authenticate, identify and control apparel helps retail players enhance supply chain management and in-store retail operations. An RFID tag on every item of clothing? Now that’s dressing for success.