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TAGSYS RFID Introduces FiTS for Fashion

The fashion/apparel industry struggles with supply chain challenges that can result in high costs and lost sales due to a lack of accurate inventory information, and a lack of automation and reliability in shipping and receiving operations. Without reliable and controllable processes, the time to process each item increases, resulting in higher distribution costs. In the store, manual receipt processes bog down the sales staff, while the lack of visibility makes it difficult to manage inventory and control shrink.

FiTS solves these problems by providing real-time visibility and automated, item-level inventory tracking. Existing TAGSYS fashion customers have realized an average 50% productivity improvement in the distribution center, 98% inventory accuracy, and a 20% reduction in processing costs per item, while improving sales by 7%.

"TAGSYS has listened to the fashion market for the past four years, and designed the FiTS system to improve the brand equity of our fashion customers," said TAGSYS CEO, Alain Fanet. "Our company has long history of developing total systems that are tailored to the unique needs of vertical markets. With FiTS, our customers receive a flexible, scalable solution that meets all of their tracking and visibility needs, all from a single source."

As the first worldwide, commercial RFID system for the fashion industry, FiTS offers customers a unique, centralized view of the entire supply chain by combining proven RFID technology and services:

* Complete Technology Platform: FiTS provides customers with reliable, industry-standard RFID tags, labels, readers, and software.

* Unique, Centralized Dashboard: The FiTS dashboard allows customers to monitor supply chain processes and RFID performance in order to identify chokepoints and improve logistics, receipt, purchasing, and shrink management processes anywhere in the world.

* Innovative, Flexible Deployment Model: Customers can buy or lease the FiTS system. Because FiTS is modular and scalable, the system can grow with your business, and easily be reconfigured without additional technology investments. This subscription-based model allows customers to accelerate their ROI while reducing financial risk.

* Performance Guarantee: TAGSYS will design and install a quality RFID system that is reliable, fully integrated and complete. Further, TAGSYS can guarantee performance levels and provide proactive maintenance via its TAGSYS Total Managed Services (TMS) offering.

"With FiTS, we're giving our clients the ability to track and manage their merchandise from the time it leaves manufacturing to the point where a customer picks it up off the shelf," concluded Fanet." "This improved level of visibility and operational performance will enable them to dramatically improve their inventory accuracy, reduce costs and ultimately, to sell more merchandise at a higher price."

TAGSYS is a sponsor of the GS1 US RFID Apparel Demo at RFID Journal Live! 2011, being held on April 12 -14, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. There, the company will be showcasing its new FiTS visibility system in the demonstration area on the show floor.

About TAGSYS

TAGSYS provides complete, reliable, high performance RFID infrastructure systems for item-level tracking in a variety of industries. Our unique RFID expertise, combined with a true understanding of RFID business processes, make us the ideal RFID partner to ease and ensure the success of your project. With a proven track record of delivering reliable, high performance production systems, TAGSYS has deployed RFID systems to over 500 customers in more than 40 countries. More information on TAGSYS can be found at www.tagsysrfid.com.

TAGSYS:
Angeline Fraud, +33 4- 4218-8956
angeline.fraud@tagsysrfid.com
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North American Agency:
Spectrum Marketing & Communications
Bob Basmadjian, +1 908-823-9400
spectrum_marketing@earthlink.net