Specialty garment companies like Pendragon Costumes, located in Signal Hill, California, which take great pride in their quality products have traditionally relied on error-prone human-intensive methods for their inventory control. The main selling events for products of this nature are in festivals like the Texas Renaissance Festival or the Bristol Renaissance Festival. Setting up selling shops in these remote makeshift markets leads to even more errors in inventory management. In addition to the large number of inventory and accounting errors that the traditional methods imply, they limit the potential of future growth due to the inherent inefficiency. Now, there’s a technology that can solve all this and more.

Using Passive HF RFID, the inventory control of items becomes merely the click of a button, even in remote temporary point-of-sales (POS). RFID tags are inserted in every single item produced in the company’s factory. Exact information about each item including the expected selling price is stored in the database. At the POS this information is accessed by merely scanning the RFID tag. The event of sale of an item is also captured in a temporary database and is downloaded to the company’s main database upon return to the factory/warehouse.

Reprinted with permission from Dr. Ben Zoghi