A garment chain manages every style in many sizes and colours, across stores, a warehouse and often its own factories or vendors. This illustrated case study shows how a typical garment store chain runs on barcode tags and labels from Indian Barcode / Indian RFID (Mindware) - and how it moves to RFID.
Note: This is an illustrative case study of a typical garment-chain set-up, not a named customer.
The garment barcode flow - in pictures
The challenge
Hundreds of styles in many sizes and colours, frequent price changes and sales, exchanges at billing, and stock that never matches the system - the right size is in the wrong store.
The barcode solution
- Hang tags and price labels - printed barcode hang tags and MRP stickers with style, size, colour and price; one EAN-13 or Code 128 per SKU.
- Care labels and carton labels - wash-care labels and GS1-128 carton labels for warehouse and store receiving.
- Printers and ribbons - thermal transfer printers with wax or wax-resin ribbons at factories and the warehouse; desktop printers in stores for re-pricing.
- Scanners - 2D billing scanners that also read UPI QR codes; mobile computers for receiving, transfers and stock counts.
- Software link - labels printed from the ERP / POS item master, so every store sees the same SKU and price.
- Exporters - retailer-specific labels and RFID tags for buyers abroad, printed and encoded by Indian RFID.
What changes
| Area | Before | With barcode tags |
|---|---|---|
| Billing & exchanges | Manual entry, wrong size or price | Scan the tag - correct SKU and price |
| Receiving | Count pieces by hand | Scan cartons and pieces against the transfer |
| Size-wise stock | Unknown until someone checks | Live stock by style, size and colour |
| Sales & markdowns | Re-label by hand | Reprint price labels from the system |
| Next step | - | RFID hang tags: full store count in minutes, faster billing |
Learn more about RFID for apparel in the exporters RFID guide, or order labels and tags.