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Xterprise releases RFID item-level auditing enhancement

May 24, 2011

Xterprise, a company specializing in RFID item-level inventory management and enterprise-class software applications for the retail market, today announced the release of an enhancement to its Clarity Source Tagging (ST) product. The product supports apparel and footwear suppliers fulfilling RFID item-level orders for retailers such as Wal-Mart, JCPenney and others.

The box and order auditing enhancement performs an automated audit of case level contents and validates the contents to the required item level against the order, then logs the results and reports any needed corrective actions.

”RFID technology alone without item-level software applications to drive process and inventory utilization improvements will not improve quality of shipments, but instead just make the existing process errors even more costly,” said Dean Frew, CEO of Xterprise. “We continue to witness customers that are using our suite of Clarity item-level applications realizing the value that is inherent in the technology which has such a fundamental advantage over legacy SKU based processes and systems.”

The Clarity ST application can be deployed at a garment factory or a distribution center, and can monitor and audit shipments to a distribution center or directly to a store. The customer can use the enhancement as a standalone or with the base Clarity ST product.

The Clarity ST box and order auditing enhancement includes the following features:

• 100 percent verifications of box packing or case accuracy at the item-level
• Shortage due to a tag not physically inside the container
• Shortage due to a weak tag not being read by the RFID reader
• Overage due to an unexpected tag in the container
• Material handling equipment control signaling, as well as visual or other manual notification
• Warehouse management system integration for box audit verification
• 100 percent automated monitoring of hardware and software application health for 24x7 solution support

The application and auditing enhancement are currently deployed using Motorola and Zebra RFID hardware products and use a number of RFID inlay and label manufacturers products.

Xterprise’s Clarity technology usesMicrosoft technologies, including .Net, SQL, BizTalk RFID, Windows Mobile and Windows Azure Cloud.

Customers of Clarity ST can also deploy the companion product, Clarity Mobile, a cloud-based light technology footprint application for item-level inventory management with web based multisite inventory and inventory discrepancy reporting.