2025-03-13
Taking inventory of a store with 15000 pieces of clothes in stock, using barcode technology, it needs to takes four people eight hours to complete with the highest accuracy of 86 percent. With RFID, it can be done by one person in an hour, and more importantly, the accuracy is close to 100%. Which way would you choose? Maybe everyone is willing to choose RFID technology. Nowadays, more and more clothing brands and large clothing supermarkets, such as Zara, Uniqlo, Highland House, Prada, DiCarlo, are using RFID technology to help them achieve intelligent clothing management. Today, let’s take a look at how RFID has changed the clothing industry.
Barcode to RFID Tag Transition
Nowadays, most apparel enterprises use barcodes for data collection in the whole process, including production, warehouse, store, and sales. However, with the expansion of the business scale of garment enterprises, inventory management becomes more difficult.
Clothing warehouses are mostly small-batch and multi-batch distribution. However, the way of scanning goods one by one based on barcode cannot meet the efficiency requirements of receiving and dispatching operations in the peak period, and the mismatch of goods often occurs. RFID tags can solve the problem, which has the advantages of a large amount of written information, changeable information, long service life, high security, etc.
Common Types of RFID Clothing Tags
Coated Paper RFID Sticker
RFID stickers are the most common RFID tag used in clothing management. They can be directly attached to the clothing tag without changing the existing hanging tag mode to achieve the visibility of garment supply chain inventory, reduce the shortage of goods, and achieve easy scheduling. There are many sizes, crafts, chips that you can choose according to the requirements.
RFID Woven Clothing label
You also can call it RFID care labels, usually made of soft woven fabric material. It can be sewed on the inside of the clothing, completed in the factory production process. It has the features of waterproof and not easy to lose, good anti-counterfeiting, and best anti-channeling. A variety of label styles can be customized according to customer requirements, new products, and high-end brand clothes prefer it.
Clothing RFID Hand Tag
Clothing RFID Hang Tag is to embed the RFID chip directly into the clothing tag to achieve the integration of the chip and tag, more integrated, and more beautiful. It can be customized according to the needs of the garment brand. The cost is relatively high, and it is suitable for new or high-end clothing products, as well as clothing brands with high aesthetic requirements.
RFID Apparel Hard Tag
RFID clothing hard tag is the UHF+EAS dual-frequency tag. It integrates RFID technology and electronic anti-theft technology in one of the hard labels, mainly used for clothing stores to prevent theft and reduce losses. This tag is usually made of ABS plastic shell, durable and reusable. Therefore, it can be recycled and reused after garment retail.
RFID PPS Laundry Tag
This is a common RFID laundry tag with good heat resistance. There are many other features, like waterproof, pressure resistant, alkali resistance, popularly used in industrial laundry, linen rental industry. This tags can withstand the harsh environment of the laundry process, providing the perfect solution for automatic tracking of clothes and intelligent sorting of clothes.
