The Zara chain relies on Tyco's RFID technology for smart inventory in 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.

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

This solution offers real-time visibility of all point-of-sale inventory, with fast and reliable data on the type of garment, color, talla, etc. which allows the owner, in this case Inditex Group, create precise merchandising plans and tailored product catalogs to improve the shopping experience and customer service across your entire Zara store chain.

Tyco's intelligent inventory visibility “supports Inditex's omnichannel strategic objectives, ensuring that the right products are in the right place at the right time - this company explains -. With this RFID-based solution, Inditex is achieving operational efficiencies by improving inventory processes and better controls to reduce shrink and theft, Thanks to which you optimize your investment in inventory and maximize sales and margins”.

For this project, Inditex uses hard labels and detachers at the Zara point of sale with dual RFID/Acustomagnetic technology (RFID/AM) Sensormatic de Tyco, that not only offer visibility of the entire inventory, but they allow unknown loss to be controlled thanks to acustommagnetic anti-theft technology and improve security in the store.

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

For Pablo Isla, president of Inditex, “The implementation of this new generation technology is one of the most important changes in the operations of the Inditex Group stores to date”.

For your part, the president of Tyco Retail Solutions, Nancy Chisholm, underlines that “Inditex has been a very valuable customer for Tyco for many years, and we are delighted to learn of the good operational results and the success of the deployment of our RFID solutions to have inventory visibility in real time, “which allows the company to keep pace with fashion trends and satisfy the needs of buyers.”.