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Sewing up the competition: You are a logistics leader for the highly competitive garment industry with customers in 35 countries on five continents. Your customers, many of them brand leaders, want to protect their profit margins from product diversion and counterfeiting while maximizing in-store product availability. How can you enhance your offering with a solution thats made to measure for your customers?

One way is to demonstrate how RFID can significantly enhance supply chain management and in-store operations for key players garment manufacturers, brand owners, retailers and logistics providers alike. By teaming up with UPM Raflatac and ADT, a provider of electronic security systems, Salpomec has created the worlds first Apparel RFID Solution Center, located in Lahti, Finland. Opened in May 2007, it will play host to up to 100 garment manufacturers, retailers and logistics providers in its first year.

Visitors to the Apparel RFID Solution Center will view an end-to-end supply chain that demonstrates source tagging, automatic goods reception, an RFID-based sorting system, replenishment and store inventory management as well as point-of-sale operations and security to demonstrate the technologys advantages over conventional inventory management processes. The solution leverages UPM Raflatacs Web UHF tag to reduce shrinkage and out-of-stocks for retailers, while streamlining operational processes for all retail partners. Says Jarkko Kuusisto, CEO of Salpomec: Apparel manufacturing often takes place on one continent with the goods being sold in an entirely different location. This increases the demand for up-to-date and accurate information throughout the entire supply chain. RFID can deliver this by offering levels of information and control.

From the stock room to the store floor, RFIDs ability to authenticate, identify and control apparel helps retail players enhance supply chain management and in-store retail operations. An RFID tag on every item of clothing? Now thats dressing for success.

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Pattaya is the shopping capital in the world for bargain hunters. From it-gadgets to clothing to bags or paintings prices are unbeatable.

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Item-level tagging of Nokia mobile phones and accessories results in cost savings of 25%
UPM Raflatac is supplying UHF EPC Gen2 tags to Future Communications Company (FCC) based in the State of Kuwait. FCC is the main distributor of Nokia phones and accessories in Kuwait and runs more than 30 retail stores. The company is implementing RFID technology at item-level in its retail showroom in Kuwait City to improve customer service and maximize the efficiency of inventory management.

UPM Raflatacs DogBone tags are attached to mobile phone packages, while accessories are tagged with UPM Raflatacs ShortDipole and Belt products. In addition to global functionality, these UHF tags provide security features (EAS) for anti-theft purposes. FCC has introduced intelligent shelves with RFID reader antennas that monitor the stock and provide automatic notification if stock levels fall below specified volumes. This results in fewer out-of-stock situations and increased sales, as RFID tagged items are easily located in the store or backroom.

FCCs customers benefit from the RFID technology with enhanced customer service and reduced checkout times: the entire contents of a shopping basket can be scanned in one go at the point of sale. RFID also opens new opportunities for special promotions and cross-sales, as FCC has RFID enabled loyalty cards in use.

With RFID technology were able to increase both our sales and customer satisfaction. We expect savings of over 25% in operational costs and an equal increase in revenue. FCC selected RFID tags from UPM Raflatac as they provide reliable performance from the backroom to the point of sale, and they are available in a number of sizes. In future we also plan to utilize RFID in our supply chain management to reap the benefits throughout the chain, from manufacturing onwards, says Mr Talal Al-Awadhi, RFID Specialist at Future RFID Company.

UPM Raflatac has developed high-quality EPC UHF RFID tags for tagging consumer electronics at item-level. FCCs experiences show that RFID technology delivers substantial benefits to item-level applications where high value goods with short lifecycles are handled, says Mr Samuli Strömberg, Vice President of RFID Marketing at UPM Raflatac.

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The financial crisis has slammed demand for memory-hungry gadgets like PCs
and digital cameras, with chip prices falling around 90 percent in the last 18
months. Memory chip makers, battered by falling prices and electronics
demand, look for bank and government aid in the worst industry downturn
ever.
Asian chipmakers have been battered by falling prices and electronic goods
demand, but shares of Hynix Semiconductor jumped Wednesday on ideas of
imminent aid.

Top shareholder Korea Exchange Bank and other lenders are in talks with the
DRAM chip giant to provide about $560 million in fresh funds, allowing it to
stay afloat.

The rare good news comes as the financial crisis hits demand for
memory-hungry gadgets like PCs and digital cameras, creating the worst chip
downturn in history.

Shares of firms like Hynix have plummeted about 70 percent this year, while
the price of 1 gigabit of memory has fallen from over $6 to around 61 cents in
the last 18 months.

Rival Samsung, the world No.1 in DRAM and NAND flash memory, is expected to
post losses but gain market share as other firms struggle.

Toshiba, the No.2 NAND player, is halting chip production at two plants for
over a week, the first such move in seven years, while planning to
restructure.

Others, such as ProMos, the smallest of Taiwan’s top three DRAM makers, are
applying for government istance amid the downturn, lifting shares
Wednesday.

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