Clothing & Apparel

Clothing retailers need to manage thousands of individual products while keeping inventory accurate, products properly identified, and customers moving efficiently through the shopping experience. IBC provides barcode, RFID, tagging, labeling, mobile computing, scanning, and printing solutions for clothing and apparel retailers looking to improve inventory accuracy and operational efficiency.

From receiving merchandise at the back door to getting products onto the sales floor, conducting inventory counts, processing sales, managing returns, and fulfilling online orders, IBC can help retailers connect product identification with their retail systems. RFID can provide additional visibility by allowing retailers to identify products without requiring individual line-of-sight scans, while barcode solutions continue to provide a reliable and cost-effective foundation for product identification.

Apparel Tagging & Identification

Effective product identification starts with the tag or label attached to the garment.

IBC provides solutions for:

  • Price tags
  • Size tags
  • Barcode tags
  • Brand tags
  • Care labels
  • Hang tags
  • RFID apparel tags
  • Garment fastening systems
  • MicroTach® fasteners
  • Swiftach® tagging systems

Avery Dennison’s Swiftach portfolio is specifically designed for applications such as garment tagging, product identification, price, size and barcode information, with different systems available for standard and delicate fabrics.

RFID Apparel Inventory

RFID can help apparel retailers improve inventory visibility by allowing multiple tagged products to be identified without individually scanning each barcode.

Potential applications include:

  • Receiving
  • Inventory counts
  • Shelf and rack inventory
  • Stockroom management
  • Item location
  • Online order fulfillment
  • Click-and-collect
  • Returns
  • Loss prevention
  • Store-to-store transfers

SATO’s retail solutions specifically highlight RFID for more efficient apparel product management and inventory accuracy.

Point-of-Sale & Product Identification

Barcode labels and tags remain an important part of apparel retail. IBC can provide the printers, labels, scanners, mobile computers, and consumables required to print and manage product identification throughout the store.

Mobile Retail Technology

Mobile computers and scanners allow associates to take technology directly to the sales floor rather than requiring employees to return to a fixed workstation.

Applications include:

  • Inventory counting
  • Price checking
  • Receiving
  • Stock lookup
  • Order fulfillment
  • Returns
  • Store transfers
  • Product lookup

Omnichannel Apparel Retail

Today’s apparel retailers increasingly need their physical stores and online operations to work together. Accurate product identification and inventory information can help support buy online, pick up in store (BOPIS), ship-from-store, click-and-collect, and real-time inventory visibility.

IBC can help retailers connect barcode and RFID identification with the mobile and printing technologies required to support these workflows.

Reduce Inventory Errors

An inaccurate inventory count can result in products appearing available online when they are actually missing, misplaced, or sitting in another part of the store. Better barcode and RFID identification can help retailers improve inventory accuracy and make better use of available stock.

Why IBC?

IBC provides the hardware, consumables, RFID, software, and integration expertise required to build complete apparel retail identification systems. Rather than simply supplying a scanner or printer, we can look at the entire workflow—from receiving through the sales floor and fulfillment—to identify opportunities to improve accuracy and efficiency.

Improve apparel inventory accuracy, tagging, and retail efficiency with IBC’s barcode, RFID, mobile computing, and labeling solutions. Contact us to get started.