Product Feature: Cloud Serialization
Ensuring Unique Retail SGTIN96 Tags
As the retail landscape evolves, major retailers are increasingly requiring vendors to supply products with RFID tags. These tags must adhere to strict encoding standards, typically SGTIN96, which includes a serialization component. Properly encoded GS1 Company and Product Identifiers are not enough; each individual product tagged must have a unique serial number associated. Any error in the encoding, including duplicated serial numbers, can result in penalties levied by these retailers.
The Challenge of Serialization
Serialization presents a significant challenge, especially for businesses operating in environments where multiple employees are printing tags independently. While there are software solutions available today that can encode RFID tags, including generating incrementing serial numbers, they fall short in one critical area: tracking these serials over time. Without a clear method for maintaining a historical record of used serial numbers, and continuing from where you last left off – it’s easy to lose track of exactly which serial numbers have been assigned to which products.
Many companies end up resorting to managing serial numbers in spreadsheets. In an environment where a single person is responsible for printing all the tags for a given product range, it might be feasible to manage serialization in this way. However, once you have multiple employees managing this process, the complexity grows significantly. Coordinating serial number assignments among multiple employees or divisions without a centralized system leads to confusion and increases the risk of duplicating serial numbers, which can result in costly fines from retailers.
Introducing Cloud Serialization in RFIDLinked
RFIDLinked is proud to announce the release of Cloud Serialization. Unlike other software solutions that only handle the printing of encoded RFID tags leaving you to keep track of serialization yourself, RFIDLinked takes it a step further by managing and tracking the serialization component for you.
Key Benefits of Cloud Serialization:
Unique Serial Management: RFIDLinked records and keeps track of every serial number generated for each product you print tags for. This allows you to retrieve and review the history of serials at any time, ensuring compliance with retailer requirements.
Multi-User Coordination: In multi-user environments, RFIDLinked’s Cloud Serialization coordinates the generation of serial numbers across all users, preventing any accidental duplication for a given product. This is crucial for companies where multiple employees may be printing tags simultaneously.
An Industry-First: Cloud Serialization is an industry-first feature that addresses the complex needs of businesses operating in multi-user settings. By preventing duplicate serial numbers, it helps avoid the hefty fines imposed by retailers for non-compliance.
Get Started with RFIDLinked Today
Our commitment is to provide practical and easy to use solutions that address the real-world challenges our customers face. Cloud Serialization in RFIDLinked is designed with this in mind, offering a straightforward yet powerful tool to ensure the integrity and uniqueness of your RFID tags.
If your company deals with retail vendor RFID tag mandates, it’s time to explore how RFIDLinked can help ease the transition. Contact us today to learn more and see how our solution can help you.
