-- Inbound goods receipt
-- Back room real-time inventory management
-- Fixed and handheld readers tracking real-time sales floor inventory
-- A Smart Mirror showing complementary clothing choices or accessories
-- Smart Shelves with monitors indicating available garment size and
style choices
-- In-aisle product information triggered by scanning items
-- RFID-enabled point-of-sale terminals delivering efficient checkout
The store's integrated solution elements and features include:
-- At METRO Group's Neuss warehouse, tagged goods are read and recorded
by Checkpoint Systems' RFID/UHF hanging conveyor and packing table
antennas, as well as Checkpoint UHF dock-door portals. Once at the Galeria
Kaufhof store, garments are tracked using Checkpoint portals in the
receiving area and stock room. Checkpoint has also deployed its dual
EAS/RFID antennas for security monitoring at the entry/exit and fitting
room areas, as well as point-of-service deactivation. In addition,
Checkpoint will provide its system integration expertise for the trial.
-- The Galeria Kaufhof RFID solution uses Impinj Speedway® readers
exclusively for all in-store fixed read points, and Impinj Monza™ tag
chips to power all tags used in the store. Impinj near-field UHF RFID
reader antennas in the smart shelves continuously gather data from tagged
garments and accessories on the retail floor, and Impinj point-of-sale
displays provide immediate product information to store personnel at all
sale terminals.
-- Reva Systems provides centralized management capabilities for Galeria
Kaufhof's RFID operations with the Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP) network
infrastructure product. Reva's TAP is used to centrally control distributed
RFID components including roughly 60 fixed and handheld readers from
different vendors; it also integrates the RFID system with multiple
applications and back-office systems, optimizing data capture across all of
Galeria Kaufhof's RFID operations.
"Galeria Kaufhof's deployment is the first large-scale application of
near-field UHF RFID to track retail merchandise from distribution through
point-of-sale," said Michael Liard, Research Director, RFID & Contactless,
ABI Research. "The newly available EPCglobal standards support a unified
UHF Gen 2 RFID infrastructure and, combined with innovative technology,
make such a real world solution possible."
"With this pilot we demonstrate how a department store fully equipped with
RFID on the item level can work," said Dr. Christian Plenge, Head of
Research and Innovation of MGI METRO Group Information Technology.
Customers can see the benefits of item-level tagging in consumer-oriented
store applications such as intelligent shelves, intelligent dressing rooms
and product-aware information kiosks. "The business benefit to us as
retailers is that an end-to-end RFID infrastructure at the item level can
fill the data void that exists between products being received and products
being sold," Plenge said. "We can now see products also in those steps of
our process chain which so far weren't illuminated by the inventory
management system."
About Checkpoint Systems
Checkpoint Systems, Inc. is the leading supplier of retail shrink
management solutions. Checkpoint's global team helps retailers -- and their
suppliers -- reduce theft, increase inventory visibility and provide
consumers with greater merchandise availability through the company's
rapidly evolving RF technology, expanding shrink management offerings and
Check-Net labeling solutions. Checkpoint has more than one million RF
devices installed in stores today, and since the advent of the modern
retail age has secured more than 100 billion products. Scaling
cost-efficiently, Checkpoint's solutions provide increased revenues and
profits to a fast-growing community of successful retailers, and a superior
experience for their consumers. Listed on the NYSE (Contact Information: Media contacts: Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Jennifer Henry 856-251-2150 or Spectrum Marketing & Communications Bob Basmadjian 908-823-9400 Lynda Kaye Mango Communications for Impinj 650-799-2888 Pamela Nelson Reva Systems 978-337-3153
