What is it about?
This paper proposes a new framework for the classification of RFID deployments in fashion and apparel retailing. The framework encompasses several different use cases pursued by fashion and apparel retailers in the last decade. We carried out a comprehensive literature review (160 papers) on RFID deployments in fashion and apparel retail, searching different sources of information (e.g. scientific papers, conferences and seminars proceedings, websites, magazines, newspapers etc.) Finally, we set up a panel of industry partners to validate the framework using the Delphi method.
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Why is it important?
From a practitioner’s perspective, the framework offers a comprehensive and well-structured overview of the cost- and the revenue-related potentials of RFID implementations in the industry. Researchers, on the other hand, may use the framework to identify opportunities for further research regarding RFID deployments in retailing.
Perspectives
Possible future directions of research can be summarized as follows: - investigate on how RFID UCs could be furtherly classified in different categories. For instance, analysing the frequency or the age of first deployments UCs could be classified in well-established versus innovative ones; - apply the proposed framework in order to categorize real deployments, and correlate UCs with successful deployments; - publish an open access data base of RFID projects so that literature on this topic can gain access to a comprehensive data set.
Mr. Giovanni Romagnoli
Universita degli Studi di Parma
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This page is a summary of: A new framework for RFID use cases in fashion and apparel retailing, International Journal of RF Technologies, May 2016, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/rft-150075.
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