Gardeur GmbH / Galeria Kaufhof GmbH
www.gardeur.com / www.galeria-kaufhof.com
Business Situation
- GARDEUR is one of the largest providers of men's and women's trousers in Germany
- The products are sold at GALERIA KAUFHOF branches via shop-in-shop concepts
- GARDEUR has only little information about the garments which are currently on the sales floor, which are out of stock or any information about the correct sales statistics
- BRIDGE is a sponsored project of the European Union with focus RFID and a maturity of 3 years and grants of approximately 13 million Euros
Solution Approach
- RF-iT Solutions implemented an RFID tagging station, an RFID goods out gate and an EPCIS database at GARDEUR
- The RFID devices are powered by predefined solution components
- The KAUFHOF EPCIS database got interfaced to be able to generate various kinds of reports
Deployed solution components
- Tagging
- Goods Out
- Data Store
Results
- GARDEUR supplies the GALERIA KAUFHOF branch in Essen completely with RFID-tagged garments
- GARDEUR and GALERIA KAUFHOF use the Internet-based database (EPCIS), in which all events are automatically stored
- By analyzing data from the EPCIS all movements of the garments within the supply chain can be tracked and traced by the partners
- Inventory reports, sales reports, buying behavior reports, shop furnishing analysis, product attractiveness reports, garment combination reports and others help to understand the processes in the shop to optimize the fashion collection and finally the volume of sales
- By increasing the transparency of the flow of goods on the sales floor GARDEUR knows when the items reach the point of sales
- GARDEUR can align its production precisely according to the actual demand
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