Zara chain bets on Tyco RFID technology for intelligent inventory at seven hundred points of sale

Tyco Retail Solutions has signed an agreement with the Inditex Group to provide RFID-based inventory intelligence in seven hundred stores of its Zara brand, distributed in twenty-two countries.

Spanish company Inditex, one of the world's largest fashion providers, has signed an agreement with Tyco Retail Solutions to implement your inventory intelligence solution at the point of sale, based on RFID technology, in seven hundred stores of its Zara brand, distributed in twenty-two countries around the world.

This solution provides real-time visibility into all point-of-sale inventory, with fast and reliable data on the type of garment, colour, size, Etc. allowing the owner, in this case Inditex Group, create accurate marketing plans and custom product catalogs to improve the shopping experience and customer service across your Zara store chain.

Tyco's intelligent inventory visibility "supports Inditex's omnichannel strategic goals, ensuring that the right products are in the right place at the right time, they explain from this company.. With this RFID-based solution, Inditex is achieving operational efficiencies by improving inventory processes and better controls to reduce unknown loss and theft, by optimizing your inventory investment and maximizing sales and margins".

For this project, Inditex uses hard labels and detachers at Zara's point of sale with dual RFID/Acustomagnetic technology (RFID/AM) Sensormatic by Tyco, that not only offer visibility of all inventory, but allow to control the unknown loss thanks to anti-hurt acustomagnetic technology and improve the safety in the store.

Under the terms of the agreement, Tyco is also responsible for managing the label recirculation program stores for reuse, which improves the profitability of the solution while respecting the environment.

For Pablo Isla, president of Inditex, "the implementation of this next generation technology is one of the most important changes in the operation of Inditex Group stores to date".

For its part, the president of Tyco Retail Solutions, Nancy Chisholm, stresses that "Inditex has been a very valuable customer for Tyco for many years, and we're thrilled to hear about the good operational results and success of deploying our RFID solutions to have real-time inventory visibility, what the company will keep pace with fashion trends and meet the needs of shoppers".

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