Decathlon UHF RFID Clothing Management Application

Decathlon, the world's largest sports and leisure goods retailer, deploys a sales network of more than 900 stores worldwide, with nearly 60 malls in 25 cities across China alone. Each year, more than 600 million dollars of personal sporting goods are sold to Europe, Africa, the southern United States and Asia. In Decathlon's rapid expansion and high-speed development behind, so that more people pay attention to, and its logistics, retail and omni-channel marketing in the comprehensive use of UHF RFID apparel management application technology. Today, in more than 400 Decathlon stores around the world, 85% of the products can be found on a tag with “RFID” logo, which is one of the most critical parts of Decathlon's UHF RFID apparel management applications.

Decathlon, the world's largest sports and leisure goods retailer, deploys a sales network of more than 900 stores worldwide, with nearly 60 malls in 25 cities across China alone. Each year, more than 600 million dollars of personal sporting goods are sold to Europe, Africa, the southern United States and Asia. In Decathlon's rapid expansion and high-speed development behind, so that more people pay attention to, and its logistics, retail and omni-channel marketing in the comprehensive use of UHF RFID apparel management application technology.

Today, in more than 400 Decathlon stores around the world, 85% of the products can be found on a tag with “RFID” logo, which is one of the most critical parts of Decathlon's UHF RFID apparel management applications.

UHF RFID Garment Management - Hangtags with RFID tags

Decathlon UHF RFID clothing management system is distributed in various supply chain centers around the world, there are these “big guys” used for rapid receipt and sorting of goods.

Finally, the stores will be equipped with these intelligent UHF RFID garment management devices for cashiering and inventory.

UHF RFID Clothing Management-Checkout

UHF RFID Clothing Management - Inventory

From the Decathlon UHF RFID clothing management process, Decathlon is first of all in the production process, will be attached to each commodity with a fixed code of the UHF RFID clothing tags, this tag will uniquely represent the goods, and exists in Decathlon's back-office database. When these RFID-tagged goods are transported from the factory to the distribution centers, picking lines and scanning lanes equipped with UHF RFID readers will efficiently and accurately help the system deliver them to the right place. In stores, RFID handheld devices will be able to help store personnel efficiently and reliably complete the inventory of goods, and similarly, RFID can also help cashiers to carry out quick and simple cash register.

The application of UHF RFID garment management technology makes Decathlon's logistics, retailing and marketing easier, the most intuitive data is that the inventory counting efficiency compared to the previous 5 times, the frequency of inventory counting increased by 2 times; goods in and out of the goods, picking efficiency have been significantly improved; upstream suppliers can get the visibility of the inventory information, and the automatic replenishment of shelves in the store is linked to the replenishment system in a timely manner, so that the inventory is more optimized. Inventory is more optimized. At the same time, RFID technology brings, and the overall efficiency of the operational team to promote, the decline in operating costs, as well as the enhancement of customer experience. Last year, Decathlon sales increased by 11%, the new on-line RFID system can not be faulted, behind the scenes are these “heroes”.

UHF RFID Clothing Management Applications - Device Sets

The various UHF RFID apparel management devices in Decathlon's warehouses, distribution centers and stores around the world are supplied by Ambifi, a company also from France. Ambifi is a high-tech company specializing in the development and production of RFID products, providing professional RFID end-to-end solutions for retail stores, large warehouses and factories. The UHF RFID apparel management devices are supported by ThingMagic, Inc. in the US, in addition to the company's own technology reserves.

ThingMagic is the world's leading manufacturer of UHF RFID devices, founded in 2000, specializing in the development and production of UHF RFID readers and embedded systems technology. The UHF RFID modules provided by ThingMagic, with their compact size, excellent performance and easy integration, helped Anbifi to complete the R&D and production of UHF RFID apparel management terminals for specific applications in a short period of time and at a low cost, and to put them into the market quickly. Especially for global market applications like Decathlon, the ThingMagic module's support for frequency bands and certifications in multiple countries around the world provides a one-stop solution for Ambifilm.

More and more Chinese customers will be able to feel in Decathlon UHF RFID technology to bring changes in the clothing retail industry, and more and more Chinese RFID companies, can also appreciate the technical innovation brought by ThingMagic. As the general agent of Trimble's ThingMagic company in China, SEIKO Co., Ltd. based on 10 years of experience in the service industry, relying on ThingMagic technology, is committed to helping customers realize the excellent design and manufacturing of UHF RFID products and the design and promotion of enterprise-level application liberation programs, and has been successfully integrating the UHF RFID technology into its products since two years of cooperation with ThingMagic. In the two years of cooperation with ThingMagic, we have successfully brought the whole line of ThingMagic products including modules, readers and mobile data collection terminals to the Chinese market, and cooperated with our customers to widely apply RFID technology to the fields of warehousing and logistics, apparel retailing, automotive industry, intelligent forklift, aviation baggage sorting, RFID printing, and RFID drones, and so on.