Problems and solutions encountered in Decathlon application of RFID inventory technology

　　Decathlon, the world's largest retailer of sports and leisure goods, entered China in the 1990s. In 2003, it opened the first physical store in Asia in Shanghai. It currently has about 300 physical stores in more than 100 cities across the country. China is gradually becoming a base for Decathlon's global transformation and new retail development and innovation. Behind Decathlon's rapid expansion is the story of its success in fully adopting RFID apparel management application technology in logistics, retail and omni-channel marketing.

　　Problems encountered in the promotion and application of Decathlon RFID and their solutions

　　With the continuous expansion of Decathlon globally, RFID has also encountered more and more technical difficulties and problems. The current tag chip and reader technology have some difficulties that plague the industry.

　　Due to product out-of-sales, vacant shelves and unreasonable inventory, the global retail industry incurs close to 450 billion U.S. dollars in losses every year, and there is an urgent need for automatic retail inventory technology. For a long time, the various types of products in physical shopping malls, the huge quantity, frequent shelf adjustments, high costs, and weak data transmission have plagued the development and promotion of automatic inventory technology in physical retail. Now, the birth of "Dibao" makes these problems a thing of the past.

　　1. Chip storage stability problem:

　　In order to pursue ultra-low power consumption and low-cost chip storage, there will be about one in ten thousand storage failures in practical applications. Loss of RFID tag data will bring a lot of trouble to automatic reading.

　　2. Reading rate of reader:

　　If more than 100 pieces of clothing are quickly read in a short time, the performance requirements of the reader will be very high. From a trend point of view, in the past, companies focused on read distance, but now they pay more attention to read rate.

　　While Decathlon has introduced RFID technology on a large scale, its processing plants are also facing many problems in RFID electronic label verification management, which are prominent in:

　　1. The problem of wrong labeling is serious:

　　The RFID tag of product A is attached to product B, and the RFID tag of product B is attached to product A.

　　2. Missing or over-sticking of labels:

　　The RFID label of the product is missing or two labels appear on the same product, etc.

　　3. The packing quantity is not accurate:

　　The product packaging process is prone to produce more or less products, and the single-box shipping information is inaccurate, resulting in a decrease in KPI scores.

　　4. The label problem cannot be monitored:

　　There is a small probability that it is due to the problems of the label itself, such as damage, unsuccessful code writing, and wrong code writing.

　　In response to the existing RFID electronic tag verification problems in processing plants, Decathlon has created multiple sets of "RFID FCL Verification Management System" according to different application scenarios and needs of customers. Count the number of tags provided by the supplier through RFID scanning equipment, and quickly complete the standard inspection. According to the EPC rules of different styles of products, quickly and automatically detect whether the label data and quantity match the product information. In the event of an abnormality, the system will automatically prompt an alarm to eliminate problems such as incorrect labeling and wrong code from the source, and ensure the accuracy of label binding. Through multiple verifications such as EPC quantity detection and automatic weighing function, it can prevent the phenomenon of multiple labels and missing products, and multiple products.

　　With the use of the RFID FCL verification management system, the factory packing error rate has dropped from 1.5% to 0.2%, a decrease of 87%; product exception handling time has been reduced by 90%, and total consumption costs have been reduced by more than 70%; order delivery The accuracy rate is over 99.95%, and the loss cost caused by the penalty is reduced by 90%.

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