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1. The status quo of the apparel industry and the trend of RFID applications
As clothing products are characterized by rapid changes in colors, styles, and varieties, manufacturing companies in the clothing industry are required to manage production, inventory, distribution and other supply chain turnover speeds to continuously increase: out-of-season varieties should be cleared out of the counter quickly. Replace with new varieties; the inventory cannot be overstocked, and the overstocked products will cause a great burden on the enterprise. Control the quantity of inventory, ensure that the sales department has suitable varieties on the counter to meet the needs of customers; at the same time, ensure that most of the products produced can be sold without generating a large amount of slow-moving inventory.
Clothing companies often encounter the following problems:
(1) The statistics of packing data such as wrong packing, missing packing and multiple packing caused by human factors are inaccurate and slow;
(2) Product delivery requires a lot of manual work, and statistics are slow, often resulting in a long supply cycle, which directly affects the production efficiency of the enterprise;
(3) Untimely and inaccurate inventory data statistics will also affect production efficiency, such as: long replenishment cycle;
(4) Inventory takes a lot of manual work for a long time to complete;
(5) It is not clear where each product is located, nor can it be known how many products there are in a certain location
At present, there are mostly two data collection methods in the production process: one is manual collection; the other is bar code collection. Although companies that use bar codes for data collection save a lot of human resources and time than manual collection, with the development of technology , And the requirements of various companies for high-efficiency production lines, the application of barcodes has also reached its bottleneck: it cannot achieve multi-batch, long-distance, high-speed, and hostile data collection, which limits the company’s production process Greater efficiency. The emergence of RFID not only solves the problems encountered by bar codes, but also has advantages such as easy reading, fast reading, large data storage capacity, and recyclable use, and its advantages are becoming more and more widely used in the industry.
2. RFID-based clothing supply chain management system
The benefits of RFID in the clothing industry include: unpacking inventory, in-store inventory, timely search and replenishment, anti-theft, etc. RFID technology can cover all aspects of clothing production, product processing, quality inspection, warehousing, logistics and transportation, distribution, and product sales. Carry out informatization, provide users with real-time dynamic tracking and query throughout the process, provide real, effective, and timely management and decision support information for managers at all levels, provide support for the rapid development of business, and comprehensively reduce enterprise costs, increase profits and competitiveness.
Clothing has the requirements of anti-counterfeiting, anti-theft, logistics distribution management and specialty store or store management. In the production process of clothing, an RFID card issuer is used to write some important attributes of a single piece of clothing into the RFID tag and attach the tag to the corresponding On the clothing, the uniqueness of the label can be used as a clothing anti-counterfeiting identification. During the distribution process, the clothing in the box can be quickly read by the RFID reader installed on both sides of the channel or the distribution belt. At the same time, it can be installed at the door in the store. The RFID reader of the company will alarm and prevent theft when customers bring out clothing abnormally.
(1) Clothing imitation function
In the clothing production process, the UHF card issuing machine is used to write some important attributes of a single piece of clothing into the corresponding electronic tags. The attachment method of the electronic tag can be implanted in the clothing, made into a nameplate or tag, or recycled anti-theft hard tag. Give each piece of clothing a unique electronic tag identification that is difficult to forge, which can effectively avoid counterfeiting and well solve the problem of clothing anti-counterfeiting.
(2) Warehouse management
Because the RFID technology has the feature of simultaneously identifying multiple tags under non-contact and non-visual conditions, that is, dozens or hundreds of pieces can be identified in the whole box, which greatly improves the logistics efficiency. If RFID technology is used in the warehousing management, the warehousing management of the logistics distribution center, and the warehousing management of the retail store, the optimal management of the entire supply chain process of “shop replenishment demand-distribution center-manufacturer” can be realized . The use of RFID technology in warehouse management can realize the visual management of all management units, which can greatly shorten the packaging, handling, inventory, and statistics time, thereby reducing cargo damage, accelerating capital turnover, and increasing the efficiency of warehouse management. Manufacturers and clothing stores can use RFID readers to quickly inventory clothing in warehouses and replenish them in time to avoid the phenomenon of out of stock or broken codes of a certain clothing in clothing stores.
(3) Warehouse management
When garments are produced from the factory and go through the warehouse procedures, the staff put the goods on a forklift. When the forklift brings the goods to the warehouse, the reader reads the reader at the warehouse door and sends the label information to the warehouse management system to record the receipt of the goods. The details of.
(4) Outbound management
Before the use of RFID technology, the clothing delivery process was handled manually: that is to say, when these clothing arrived from the manufacturer to the distribution center, the staff had to manually check one by one, and one piece was required when the clothing was sent to the clothing store. Packing one piece and manually recording the information, the result is slow and error-prone. After using RFID, the manufacturer prints an advance shipping notice. After the packaged clothing arrives at the retailer’s distribution center, it will be placed on the conveyor belt or forklift. These labeled packaged clothing will be automatically installed by the RFID reader on the channel. Read and send the data to the system. If it is incorrect or missing with the delivery order, the system will issue a warning to remind employees to check the clothing goods in the packaging box. After the clothing is repackaged, it will be sent to the clothing store together with the delivery order. After the clothing store receives the clothing, it uses an RFID reader to inspect the goods. Through this process, 15,000 pieces of clothing items can be verified per hour in only one RFID channel. The automation of the verification process can reduce the time a single product spends in the supply chain by 5 to 7 days.
(5) Shop checkout, anti-theft
Anti-theft alarm
The RFID reader has a relay output function inside, that is, when the reader reads a tag or a tag with a specific format, the reader closes the relay, which triggers the closure of the external relay and starts the alarm. The specific situations are as follows:
a. The label of the clothing store needs to be recycled. In this case, the reader installed at the door of the clothing only needs to read the label to trigger the external alarm to alarm, and at the same time play a role in preventing theft.
b. The label of the clothing store is not recycled. After the customer pays the bill, use the RFID reader to rewrite the label on the clothing purchased by the customer. For example, define a byte: ‘0’ means no purchase, ‘1’ means purchase, when When the reader at the door reads a tag that has not been rewritten, it triggers an external alarm to alarm, while reading a rewritten tag that has already been paid does not trigger the alarm.
Checkout
When a customer buys a piece of clothing, especially multiple pieces of clothing, to checkout, the reader will automatically read the clothing purchased by the customer at one time and display the bill. The customer does not need to wait, and can immediately pay or swipe the card, which greatly improves the checkout efficiency , Improve store efficiency. Through this innovative RFID technology, customers can feel an unprecedented shopping experience. It not only shortens the waiting time of customers during peak periods, but also increases customer satisfaction and improves customers’ brand awareness and loyalty.
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