Northland Professional
Business Situation
- NORTHLAND PROFESSIONAL is a full-range apparel provider in the outdoor and textile sector in 36 countries across the globe
- NORTHLAND has a worldwide distribution network consisting of shop-in-shop concepts and franchise stores
- A conventional inventory process on a sales floor with approximately 600 items takes 1.5 hours
- Shop floors have to be downsized because of the use of security gates
Solution Approach
- An RFID printing solution and mobile RFID handhelds are implemented
- The necessary device environment includes a wireless infrastructure and a central database
- Use of DETEGO solution components and RFID tags for retail security
Deployed solution components
- Tagging Station
- Mobile Inventory
- Data Store
- Article Surveillance
Results
- The speed of the inventory process has been increased by the 20 times
- The handheld application allows to filter product groups which makes it easy to locate missing articles
- Due to the online connection of the handheld application to the central database a target/actual comparison is possible in real time
- Installation of RFID antennas to cover article surveillance (EAS) via RFID
- Release of space in the stores through the elimination of conventional EAS Gates
- Detection rate of the EAS antenna is significantly over 90%
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