South Africa's The House of Busby Slashes Inventory Labor via RFID

The House of Busby, a retailer in South Africa, has deployed an RFID-based solution at one of its Johannesburg stores to increase the visibility of its inventory and reduce the amount of time personnel previously spent counting stock. The solution, provided by Milestone Integrated Systems, employs EPC ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID technology from Keonn, including readers and its AdvanCloud software, to manage the collected read data. The store using the technology is located in Johannesburg's Sandton City shopping mall. Since the system's deployment, the company reports that it has reduced the number of labor hours required to count inventory at a single, full store from 120 man-hours to fewer than 30 minutes.