Background
A retail chain called Casual apparel is famous for its good quality collection of apparel for women, men, and children. The store chain has a presence in many cities like Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Guangdong, Beijing, Liaoning, Yunnan, and Sichuan. Therefore, management setup many logistics facilities in big cities like Hangzhou, Humen, Beijing, and Shishi for a sufficient supply of items at the store level. To improve the distribution and ensure fast supply of goods at the store, the company seeks fast and accurate technology. Thus, management implemented RFID technology to achieve these objectives.
Challenges
1. Company has a large number of stores across the country which are difficult to control with the manual inventory management process.
2. It takes a long time to sort the goods at warehouses. Thus, high demand goods cannot be delivered to the local stores timely.
3. It is difficult to track the data of items store in the warehouse. Therefore, consignment cannot be tracked effectively until the delivery to the store.
4. Because of the inefficient operation of logistics, it cannot make use of resources efficiently to affect the company's operating efficiency seriously.
Solution
To overcome all the issues, Chainway corporation helps Retail company management with the C71 mobile computer. The company management integrates back-end applications, earphones, and printer hardware. C71 Mobile computer supports a voice-directed sorting solution which allows warehouse operator to work freehand and completer the distribution process quickly and efficiently.
Effects
1. The new system has significantly reduced the workload of warehouses with high efficiency and accuracy.
2. Now management can track the entire process of goods circulation from warehouses to the retail store. In case any problem occurs during this process, the person-in-charge can be tracked easily. The management can assign the role & responsibility of each person involves in the whole process.
3. The intelligent process of receiving and delivery has replaced the manual process with an automatic process That further reduced the error rate significantly.
4. Delivery time has shortened, which saves the storage space in the transfer warehouse, and improves the flow rate of the overall funds.
5. New system helps the management in developing and implementing new sales strategies. Besides, the real-time status of all the items is available to the company management. So that they quickly arrange the hot selling items in all the stores.
PDA Configuration
P/N: C71/C70
Function: NFC, Standard configuration