Celio deploys 750 stores in 10 months time

Celio is a multinational, multi-sourcing, a multi-channel retail company, which means that every change in the market place is multiplied. The evolution towards true omnichannel retailing is really exciting, but it also means that Celio needed to make a ‘quantum leap’ in stock accuracy to bring visibility to the sales environment.

Nedap’s iD Cloud software suite is a Software-as-a-Service solution specifically developed for retail RFID applications, giving retailers the quickest route to implement RFID and improve their in-store stock accuracy to over 98%. The real-time item-level insights into the stock levels and the exact location of each item is also the solid foundation to successfully introduce omnichannel concepts like Click & Collect.

At first, Celio focuses on raising the in-store stock accuracy by using RFID for goods receiving and weekly inventory counts in the stores. For this, Celio uses the iD Cloud software, in combination with Zebra mobile RFID readers, which feeds accurate stock data back in Celio’s ERP system from SAP. Additionally, the point-of-sale is integrated with iD Cloud to track sales and returns and use RFID for electronic article surveillance to prevent losses and enable full item-level visibility in the store.