Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

ADT introduces inventory product in Asia

Thursday, June 25, 2009

ADT Security announced the Asian debut of its Sensormatic real-time inventory visibility solutions suite to improve retail store management. Targeted at specialty apparel and book retailers, these solutions offer them ways to know what goods they have in their stores and their quantities, all without time-consuming and error-prone manual counting of inventory.

Given the item-level intelligence these solutions offer retailers, they can also determine where the goods are, whether on shelves or displays, in the back storeroom, misplaced or missing.


Retailers in Hong Kong, for example, can now effectively address lost sales due to inventory inaccuracies, one of their most significant forms of loss that undermines their profitability. ADT’s Sensormatic real-time inventory visibility solutions incorporate the TrueVUE RFID software platform and networking products. Retailers can enhance their store environments, optimize supply chain, generate incremental revenue and achieve better customer satisfaction through:

  • Maximizing the availability of merchandise on sales floor by reducing out-of-stocks

  • Improving inventory accuracy and minimizing overstocking

  • Reducing shrink from the back room, dressing room and front exits

  • Locating the right item quickly and checking the availability of the item within the store using innovative multi-sensor technologies

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