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Jakob Jost Tests RFID
In late December 2009, Jakob Jost began utilizing handheld readers to interrogate tags on garments from certain suppliers at three points throughout its supply chain.
The company is already tracking 2,000 to 3,000 garments from Gardeur, a major German manufacturer of women's and men's trousers that has been using RFID since 2006 (see Clothing Manufacturer Invests Its ROI in RFID), as well as from Lemmi), a supplier of children's clothes. In January of this year, it also began tracking an additional 6,000 garments from Seidensticker (see A Conversation With Avery Dennison's James Stafford). Toward the middle of 2010, Jakob Jost plans to also begin tracking clothing received from Gerry Weber, which embeds RFID tags into the care labels of the garments it produces (see Gerry Weber Sews In RFID's Benefits). Monti, a maker of neckties, belts and other accessories, is expected to join in as well.
With the exception of Gerry Weber's apparel, the garments will come to Jakob Jost with EPC Gen 2 RFID tags embedded in hangtags printed with product information, in the form of text and bar coding. (Gerry Weber's clothing will come with RFID tags sewn into their care tags, and not embedded in their hangtags.) Jakob Jost did not want to have to apply the RFID tags itself, Knoll says.
The first read point for the tags occurs during the receiving of incoming goods at Jakob Jost's distribution center in Grünstadt, not far from Mannheim. When boxes of items arrive from Gardeur, Lemmi or Seidensticker, workers know that these goods carry RFID tags. Therefore, they use an RFID handheld reader from Nordic ID to interrogate the tags on items without having to remove the garments from the box. (For all goods not RFID-tagged, employees still utilize a bar-code scanner to identify each garment and compare the items received from a supplier to those listed on the delivery notice.) Since launching the test of RFID, Jakob Jost reports that it has not found any variation between shipping notices and goods received. If it did so, however, a worker would then check the garments by hand, matching them to the information on the dispatch notice.
The second read point for RFID-tagged products takes place when they are shipped out of the distribution center to Jakob Jost's four stores. Workers at the DC employ a handheld reader to interrogate the tags on the outgoing goods so that the computer system is updated regarding the location and description of the outbound items.
The final read point occurs at the four stores. On the store floor, workers use handheld interrogators to conduct a weekly inventory of the RFID-tagged items, which are grouped together in dedicated spaces for each brand. (Non-tagged items are inventoried annually, using a bar-code scanner.) Once the RFID-tagged items are identified, Jakob Jost receives a confirmation that the garments that left the DC were delivered to the various stores.
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The company is already tracking 2,000 to 3,000 garments from Gardeur, a major German manufacturer of women's and men's trousers that has been using RFID since 2006 (see Clothing Manufacturer Invests Its ROI in RFID), as well as from Lemmi), a supplier of children's clothes. In January of this year, it also began tracking an additional 6,000 garments from Seidensticker (see A Conversation With Avery Dennison's James Stafford). Toward the middle of 2010, Jakob Jost plans to also begin tracking clothing received from Gerry Weber, which embeds RFID tags into the care labels of the garments it produces (see Gerry Weber Sews In RFID's Benefits). Monti, a maker of neckties, belts and other accessories, is expected to join in as well.
With the exception of Gerry Weber's apparel, the garments will come to Jakob Jost with EPC Gen 2 RFID tags embedded in hangtags printed with product information, in the form of text and bar coding. (Gerry Weber's clothing will come with RFID tags sewn into their care tags, and not embedded in their hangtags.) Jakob Jost did not want to have to apply the RFID tags itself, Knoll says.
The first read point for the tags occurs during the receiving of incoming goods at Jakob Jost's distribution center in Grünstadt, not far from Mannheim. When boxes of items arrive from Gardeur, Lemmi or Seidensticker, workers know that these goods carry RFID tags. Therefore, they use an RFID handheld reader from Nordic ID to interrogate the tags on items without having to remove the garments from the box. (For all goods not RFID-tagged, employees still utilize a bar-code scanner to identify each garment and compare the items received from a supplier to those listed on the delivery notice.) Since launching the test of RFID, Jakob Jost reports that it has not found any variation between shipping notices and goods received. If it did so, however, a worker would then check the garments by hand, matching them to the information on the dispatch notice.
The second read point for RFID-tagged products takes place when they are shipped out of the distribution center to Jakob Jost's four stores. Workers at the DC employ a handheld reader to interrogate the tags on the outgoing goods so that the computer system is updated regarding the location and description of the outbound items.
The final read point occurs at the four stores. On the store floor, workers use handheld interrogators to conduct a weekly inventory of the RFID-tagged items, which are grouped together in dedicated spaces for each brand. (Non-tagged items are inventoried annually, using a bar-code scanner.) Once the RFID-tagged items are identified, Jakob Jost receives a confirmation that the garments that left the DC were delivered to the various stores.
