Manufacturers of fashion retail goods can manage RFID tagged products and reduce friction within their supply chain using the FactoryCare service from Texas-based AML RFID.

This suite of RFID offerings should help retailers increase item-level visibility throughout the supply chain and give manufacturers more confidence in errorless product delivery.

In today’s competitive retail landscape, more and more retailers are implementing the latest technologies and pushing the technology all the way down to manufacturers to provide a competitive edge over others. As a result, retailers are using RFID technology in their factories and warehouses to provide critical insights into their inventory.

However, human error and mishandling in factories before products are shipped to stores and distribution centres are often ignored, resulting in costs, such as delays in product availability and lost sales opportunities both in-store and online.

FactoryCare, serviced through SML’s certified RFID Inspire tags and a global network of encoding products to enterprise-class RFID Clarity software, will enable manufacturers to read tags, carry out a specific item search and find, and validate tags and products. It will also perform box unpacking and audits, which will increase sort-pick rate, reduce human errors and enhance overall operations efficiency. As a result, the offering will give manufacturers more confidence in delivering products on promise and providing better services to retailers.

The latest offering will also provide an additional layer of protection to retailers by preventing inventory errors at the source, where the RFID tags are attached to products. This will give retailers the ability to track the full inventory history from source to shelf.

“SML RFID FactoryCare has been developed to optimise retail operations, maximise retailers inventory visibility throughout the entire supply chain and reduce possible errors at source where products are tagged,” said Lesley Suen, senior vice president at SML RFID. “Retailers are innovating faster than ever before, as trusted partners of retailers, SML RFID FactoryCare will deliver a flexibly priced business model, which will further drive this innovation.”

SML is a full-service RFID technology provider and partner to some of the world’s largest retailers and fashion brands. It offers the industry a broad spectrum of certified RFID Inspire tags and a global network of encoding to enterprise-class RFID software Clarity for retail stores throughout the supply chain. It has a presence in more than 30 countries.