SportLife Tracks Athletic Shoes, Apparel

SportLife, a Colombian retailer of athletic shoes, apparel and equipment that operates 38 stores, is one of a handful of companies using the Jungle software-as-a-service (SaaS) RFID solution, provided by Bogota-based technology firm APES. The system enables the retailer to reduce labor costs and inventory out-of-stocks, by tracking the shoes that it sells at all of its stores, as well as in its distribution center. For this service, SportLife pays a monthly fee that includes the use of ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) EPC Gen 2 RFID readers and tags, as well as access to inventory data captured and managed by APES' software on a cloud-based server.