Retail

Retail is a challenging business and the pressures of today’s economic conditions are resulting in even more selective consumer shopping and spending in both physical stores and e-commerce. To stand out from retail industry, it's important for store managers to have flexible tools that allow them to quickly adapt to changing consumer demands. IoT devices including RFID/barcoding capable handheld computers and telematics-based vehicle-mounted computer came into being at just the right time to improve inventory accuracy and streamline retail processes.

In chain store management, warehouse management and fleet tracking & delivery, RFID reading, 1D/2D barcode scanning, GPS, and camera technologies are applied to improve outcomes. Specific processes which bothered administrators in the past are now easily realized.

Chain Store Management

Store associates can scan items' 1D/2D barcodes or UHF/HF/LF RFID tags to promptly check details like stock level, price, and stock location. Customer experience has been enhanced as they can receive response immediately. Accurate inventory counting and real-time inventory data transmission to the backend system enables retailers to have a more transparent viewing of each chain store's sales and stock data.

Warehouse Management

Data capture devices automate the time consuming and labor-intensive stock-taking process. By scanning barcodes or RFID tags which are applied to goods, intelligent data capture of flows from receiving, inventory tracking, picking, putting away to warehouse inspection are easily realized. Then data are uploaded to the backend system over wireless network in real time so that warehouse administrators can have timely access to all information for analysis and decision-making.

Fleet Tracking & Delivery

Telematics-based vehicle-mounted computer tracks fleet on road. With GPS and OBD module, it records vehicle status and location; with monitoring sensor and camera, it monitors cargo condition and drivers behaviors; with wireless connectivity, it sends captured data to the backend server for real-time inquiry and future analysis.

Delivery
Challenges:Delivery men need to let customers sign to confirm delivery and then send those paper back to offices. If a customer does not check the condition of a parcel upon...
Fleet Tracking
Challenges: Increasing requirements for accurate and instant transportation information are mandates with today's ever-increasing pressure to meet customer expectations – all of which depend on an efficient information feedback mechanism. Especially...
Equipment Maintenance
Challenges:To ensure that warehouse equipment stays healthy to support retailers' supply chain, warehouse workers need to perform regular field service. They make maintenance notes and then input them to the...
Put-away
Challenges:Operators decide a put-away place based on their past experience. When a type of products need to change their usual slots, operators cannot timely find another suitable put-away location, and...
Picking
Challenges:When an order needs to be picked for packing and shipping, traditionally warehouse workers pick those items from paper pick lists and based on directors’ voice instruments, then write down...
Inventory Management
Challenges: In retail, if a retailer has a warehouse with a high inventory turnover, traditional way of manually counting and transcribing inventory changes leads to heavy workload, high potential for human...
Receiving
Challenges: Purchasing specialists manually check received merchandise (type and quantity) on site and later input those paper-based details into the company’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system via a fixed computer. The...
Better Service Customers
Challenges:Store associates spend much time and energy in counting inventory, in contrast, their time for customers reduces. When a customer requires an item of a specific color or size which...