The apparel marketplace, with its unique inventory challenges, is particularly ripe to take advantage of RFID technology.

Sizes and other variations drive SKU proliferation unmatched by virtually any other industry. Moreover, a single fiscal quarter of 12 weeks often exceeds a fashion design’s lifetime, making apparel inventory highly perishable.

These complications drive low labor productivity, lost sales and high levels of inventory spoilage. Nearly 50 percent of retail store labor time is spent searching for goods! And up to 20 percent of customers claim that they could not find a desired in-stock item! Improving these metrics translates into an opportunity to more than double operating income.