The intelligence behind better inventory decisions.
Retail moves fast. The operators who win are the ones who understand what’s happening across their stores, their supply chains, and their industry. This library brings together the data, research, and expert thinking that matter most: whitepapers on shrink economics and inventory accuracy, industry reports on RFID adoption and omnichannel performance, peer-reviewed research, and on-demand webinars from retail operations leaders. No fluff. No vendor spin. Just the insight you need to make confident decisions and build the business case for getting there faster.
Whitepapers & Reports
Scaling RFID across 50 franchise brands
Franchise operators managing dozens of brands face an inventory accuracy challenge that single-brand retailers do not. This outlines the software architecture required to deliver consistent 99.5% inventory accuracy across a multi-brand franchise, covering data normalization, franchise-level reporting, and group-level consolidation.
The New Economics of Retail Shrink Reduction
Retail shrinkage costs the industry $132 billion a year, and most of it is being fought in the wrong place. The New Economics of Retail Shrink Reduction makes the case that conventional loss prevention tools are structurally incapable of solving a problem that originates at the receiving dock, not the shopfloor. The whitepaper introduces a phased, commercially self-funding operating model that uses RFID-at-intake to intercept shrink at its source, lifting inventory accuracy from 65-75% under barcode systems to 95-99%, and delivering consistent 50% reductions in shrinkage across live deployments. Read the full report to understand what staying still is costing you, and exactly how fast that changes.
Articles
RFID Isn’t Failing Retailers. Slow Deployments Are.
Most RFID programs do not fail because the technology falls short. They fail because the deployment model defers proof until it is too late; and, by the time results arrive, budget confidence and stakeholder buy-in have already eroded. This article examines the four deployment failure patterns that stall most retail RFID programs, the measurable commercial cost of every week a rollout runs behind schedule, and the validated outcomes that retailers like Nordstrom, Stadium, and ASDA achieved by choosing a faster path to proof. The gap between 65% inventory accuracy and 98%+ is not a technology gap. It is a sequencing decision, and the retailers who get it right validate the business case in 30 days before committing to full deployment. If your RFID program is taking longer than it should, this is the article to read first.
The Shrink Rate on Your P&L Is Understated. Here Is Why.
Most retailers believe their shrink rate is a reliable measure of inventory loss. It is not. Supply chain theft appears in cost of goods, payment fraud sits in chargebacks, and phantom inventory corrupts the base figure before a single physical count takes place. Each mechanism shifts real commercial loss onto a different part of the profit and loss statement, meaning the investment case for remediation is routinely built against a number that understates the true exposure. This article examines all four mechanisms and explains how retailers who measured the complete picture recovered more than $15 billion in revenue last year.