Each month, RFID Journal receives numerous white paper submissions from outside experts. We read each paper carefully and select the most informative articles. Please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of facts or claims in these papers.
The Benefits of Deploying Multifunction Kiosks
Published February 2012
Richard Slawsky, a contributing editor for KioskMarketplace.com, explains how integrating several applications into a single kiosk can help companies achieve cost savings and greater efficiency, while also opening up multiple revenue streams. (3 pages)
Three Uses for RFID in Retail Kiosks
Published February 2012
Steve Arel, a contributing writer for KioskMarketplace.com, explains how radio frequency identification tags at kiosks can increase checkout speed, make it easier to use loyalty cards and increase the integration of social media with the retail experience. (4 pages)
Smart Posters
Published April 2011
The NFC Forum examines how to use Near Field Communication (NFC) tags and readers to create interactive experiences that benefit both consumers and businesses. This white paper, written by forum members from across the NFC ecosystem, provides creators with an easy guide to understanding what NFC smart posters are, what is required in developing them and how to avoid common obstacles. (25 pages)
Inventory Intelligence: Unlocking Omnichannel Retailing and the Future of the Store
Published April 2011
Omnichannel retailing adds the flexibility of cross-channel and mobile shopping to the revenue- and loyalty-building capabilities of the face-to-face retail experience, and can also offer opportunities to build deeper shopper relationships—or risk ending them, if availability promises are unmet. In this white paper, Tyco examines the advantages inherent to the store environment, and discusses how retailers can best utilize RFID, bar codes and other electronic technologies. (10 pages)
Retail Fashion Market RFID Solutions
Published October 2010
Motorola explains how RFID can provide real-time inventory visibility, enabling retailers to react more rapidly to inventory demand and stocking levels, thereby helping ensure that products are available to customers when needed. (4 pages)
Traceability in Retail—Reducing RFID Media Costs for Best Value
Published June 2010
Retailers face enormous pressure to gain the most return from their business-process investments. RFID enables business intelligence throughout an organization's value chain to provide critical information for fast and accurate decision-making. Achieving the most value from RFID demands an innovative method for ensuring accuracy while shrinking the reoccurring costs of label media. This document from Zebra Technologies discusses the benefits item-level tagging brings to the retail industry, and how on-pitch printing and encoding solutions can boost RFID's value beyond the supply chain. (8 pages)
RFID Journal Fashion Retail ROI Calculator
Published August 2009
RFID can help apparel and footwear retailers reduce out-of-stocks, improve inventory management and boost sales, while cutting labor costs. This report explains the assumptions behind RFID Journal's Fashion Retail ROI Calculator, which debuted at RFID in Fashion 2009.
Santa Fe Optical Thwarts Theft With RFID
Published June 2009
The retailer, which offers designer eyeglass frames to its clients in Austin, Texas, is employing an RFID solution from Electronic Inventory Solutions and Avery Dennison to reduce theft within its store. The RFID system has also enabled the firm to decrease its inventory-taking time by 80 percent.
Real-World RFID in Retail
Published May 2008
Research from the Aberdeen Group explores how companies with current or planned RFID deployments are pursuing and achieving benefits, and how RFID-enabled vendors and their partners are helping apparel retailers achieve business goals with RFID.
Best Practices for RFID-Mandated Sam's Club Suppliers
Published April 2008
Zebra Technologies offers ten best practices to help companies meet Sam's Club's RFID mandate, using several examples of successful supplier implementations.