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RFID trial import case
In order to improve the accuracy of merchandise management and reduce the operating burden of stores, RFID empirical experiments were carried out in newly opened stores.
K Co., Ltd.
K Co., Ltd. was founded in 1920. It is mainly based in the East China Sea region and supports the overall comfortable “visual life” through sales services such as glasses. In order to improve the accuracy of merchandise management in various stores and reduce the operational burden, the company began to review whether to introduce RFID tags. At this time, in order to judge whether it can be fully used, they started an experimental introduction operation in the newly opened store. The results confirmed that no matter in terms of accuracy, effect, convenience in use, etc., a lot of support can indeed be obtained.
Can it actually be used in stores?
Trial introduction of RFID for newly opened stores
The basic business of K Co., Ltd. is to care for the eyesight of customers from a comprehensive perspective, and while focusing on consulting services, it has established the only 4-year K glasses college in Japan to contribute to the cultivation of vision-related professionals. Effort. At present, the company has 148 stores and is expanding its business scope. At this time, it is a top priority to improve the accuracy of merchandise management and reduce the load of store operations.
At present, we have more than 2000 types of goods. However, the inventory operation still relies on manual operation, even if several staff are mobilized at the same time, it will take a whole day. In addition, small flaws such as the wrong number are prone to appear, and it takes a lot of effort to track unknown products such as stolen products. In order to solve such a problem, we especially have high hopes for RFID. Director Mori explained the background of the initial review of the introduction of RFID. However, for the company, is such an import operation really necessary? Is it actually suitable for use in stores? In order to determine whether RFID can be introduced in all stores, it was decided to introduce RFID in newly opened stores first. We have used Fujitsu’s POS system before, and are looking forward to their RFID introduction results, proposal capabilities, and integration capabilities, so we decided to ask for their assistance.” Mr. Mori explained the process of deciding to cooperate with Fujitsu.
Advantages such as the accuracy of reading data and the efficiency of inventory
Let the store staff give high praise
The trial import operation was carried out from March to April 2005. After actual use, it was found that the material of some products would make it difficult for the machine to read. The section chief of Kobe said that because it is difficult to read the data by PDA scanning in the past, the operation was changed to the method of aligning the RFID tag to sense. At this time, Fujitsu helped us to improve the continuous passage of one piece of the product, making the operation much easier. In addition, the speed of reading with a PDA has also become an issue. In the beginning, the date data is written every time it is read, so the response speed during reading has also slowed down. Regarding this point, Fujitsu has also helped us to make improvements and greatly shorten the response speed.
The results of the trial import showed an effect beyond expectations. The Kobe section chief evaluated the effect of the introduction in this way. In the past, the inventory work required mobilization of several people and took a day. However, if RFID is used, only one staff member and about 2 hours can be spent in the same place. Circumstances are completed. This kind of high accuracy and overwhelming time shortening effect is highly praised by even the store staff. Some people also praised that this system does not need to turn over the price tag as in the past, which is very easy to use.
Minister Mori also expressed his expectations and issues for the introduction work. The 4 times a year inventory work will be changed to once a month. The time required for inventory operations and finding unknown items can be concentrated on consulting services that should have been focused on. It can also be expected to be utilized in marketing. In the future, the subject of system development will be the improvement of reading speed, the enhancement of PDA function, the strength of radio waves, and the improvement of the shape of RFID tags.
In order to catch up with the era of speed as its business method, K Co., Ltd. is carrying out work such as structural rectification and POS system update review required for networked order business. “Considering the overall balance, this time we take the formal introduction of RFID as the first prerequisite for the review. However, for the industry, it is better to start the work of introducing RFID rather than one step later. It is better to consider the timing when it is reserved.” , Minister Mori said these words very firmly.
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