Retail Solutions RFID Analytics uses RFID data to deliver enhanced visibility into the supply chain, helping consumer product good (CPG) companies get business value from their RFID investment. Six of the eight early adopters of RFID, including P&G and Unilever, are Retail Solutions customers, as are over a quarter of the first 100 adopters.

Many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are tagging pallets, cases, displays and products at the item level to follow trading partner mandates, experiment with RFID as a technology and support internal and shared processes. The outcome is potentially revolutionary: increased visibility into the upstream and downstream supply chain, near real-time ability to intervene and correct problems and intelligence on how to prevent issues from reoccurring.

Retail Solutions has developed an industry-leading solution that provides both detailed and high-level visibility into RFID events. Retail Solutions RFID Analytics solution transforms RFID sightings into value-added information and enables customers to turn their RFID investment into a source of value.

Benefits

Monitor, better understand and improve the performance of your supply chain

- Improve tag readability – by read point, business location and product
- Improve cycle times – measure how a product moves in the supply chain as well as how long it stays in a location i.e. store backroom
- Reduce inventories – track areas with high inventory and make necessary adjustments
- Monitor FIFO compliance
- Monitor and intervene for perishables

Apply RFID to the deduction management process to effectively settle disputes without harming customer relations:

- Transform dispute resolution from an adversarial to a collaborative process – use automated, mutually agreed EPC data
- Prevent deductions – alerts to identify situations that could lead to deductions
- Increase overall productivity of the claims management department
- Improve cash flows - decrease the amount of time payment is held for resolution

Apply RFID to product authentication to:

- Identify counterfeit products introduced into the supply chain as well as products cloned to an existing valid RFID tag
- Ensure the integrity of their distribution channels – exposes product illegally reintroduced into the retail supply chain and tracks offenders
- Discover substituted and possibly dangerous medication before it is sold or administered
- Reduce the lost sales and brand damage due to counterfeiting

Features

Customized supply chain modeling – for each RFID program: configuration by read point, business location, product attribute and timeframe

Visibility to the finest level of granularity

- Visibility to tag readability, cycle and dwell times, detailed tag paths throughout the supply chain and store level performance
- Direct drill down capability into tag level data

Large array of standard, value-added reports and high-level metrics, exportable into several formats

Patented solution for product authentication