Digital-Intelligent IOT: How Century RFID Technology Empowers Omni-channel Retail Supply Chains

With growing consumer demand for integrated online and offline shopping experiences, the retail industry continues to evolve rapidly. Under the new retail model, supply chains are facing increasing challenges. As market competition intensifies, improving circulation efficiency, optimizing the supply chain from end to end, enhancing warehousing and logistics capabilities, and achieving fast, accurate, and efficient integrated warehousing-distribution services have become critical areas of exploration for retail enterprises.

Century V-Prime SaaS-Based Intelligent Retail Solution, through standardized integration with RFID tags and devices, empowers brand owners with item-level product management capabilities. It enables efficient coordination and rapid information flow across production, warehousing, sales, and service, bringing the retail sector an advanced, convenient data collection method, a more efficient operation model, and a better customer experience.

Innovating a Full-Process, Full-Cycle Intelligent Retail Supply Chain

The V-Prime Intelligent Retail Solution, powered by RFID technology, enables a full-process, full-cycle intelligent supply chain. Leveraging applications such as end-to-end traceability, intelligent sorting, rapid inventory, and interactive experience, it provides scenario-based solutions for smart factories, smart warehouses, and smart stores. It serves as a key management platform that connects factories, warehouses, and retail stores, helping retailers achieve precise, efficient, and visible supply chain management across procurement, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, stores, and customers, while optimizing eas tag recirculation for sustainable asset reuse.

Empowering Intelligent Factories

V-Prime delivers significant value in precise packing management, improving delivery accuracy, optimizing supply chain management, and enhancing factory operations. Each product is assigned a unique RFID code at the production source and linked to its outer box label, enabling order-based packing and batch reading via tablets to avoid inefficiencies and errors of manual counting. With unique RFID codes, brand owners and factories can track actual deliveries, build reliable supplier networks, and support orderly, closed-loop factory operations.

Empowering Intelligent Warehouses

V-Prime enhances batch shipping/receiving efficiency, improves operational accuracy, accelerates supply chain response, strengthens brand protection, and enables traceability and anti-channel conflict. Through standardized hardware and software integration, it supports read rates of up to 200 items/second, boosting operational speed. Item-level digital management and real-time analytics reinforce supplier oversight, improve substandard product tracking, and bolster traceability and anti-counterfeiting—critical for digital brand protection.

Empowering Intelligent Stores

V-Prime demonstrates strong performance in store-level goods receiving and dispatching, inventory checking, reducing out-of-stock risks, product traceability, and anti-counterfeiting. RFID handheld readers allow batch reading without unboxing, enabling refined inventory and allocation management. Fast and accurate stocktaking, intelligent replenishment strategies, and cost-effective inventory control reduce stockout risks. The tamper-proof RFID code enables full product traceability and enhances in-store anti-fraud capabilities.

RFID + Supply Chain Operations: Driving Cost Reduction and Efficiency Gains

V-Prime has already helped numerous brand owners in areas such as supply chain management, retail operations, and internal business processes. It supports real-time monitoring and full lifecycle management from raw materials to finished products, transportation, warehousing, delivery, shelving, sales, and returns. This provides data to reduce costs, improve inventory management, and build a lean, high-efficiency supply chain.

Leveraging core technologies such as IoT, Big Data, and cloud computing, Century will continue to evolve its intelligent retail digital solutions based on the V-Prime platform. Through dual-value mining of data collection and application, it aims to help brand owners reduce supply chain costs, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate digital transformation and high-quality growth in the new retail era.