Manhattan Associates Inc. unveiled its vision for an RFID-powered store. Manhattan Active® Omni suite has expanded its support of RFID tags for automating and streamlining the inventory counting, receiving, picking, checkout, return and exchange processes. With this new solution, retailers can make more accurate promises, increase conversion rates and maximize inventory exposure for selling.

Manhattan has solved this challenge by enabling its point-of-sale and store fulfillment solutions with handheld RFID support for all inventory management and order fulfillment activities. By combining RFID technology with Manhattan Active Omni, retailers can increase store inventory accuracy from 70% to nearly 100%. Manhattan's solution also reduces inventory-related labor hours, helps associates quickly locate merchandise and expedites transactions at the point of sale.

Manhattan Active Omni's RFID capabilities streamline and automate inventory counting and receiving processes. Store-wide inventory counts can be performed quickly and accurately by store associates armed with the latest handheld devices, such as Zebra's RFD series. Associates can also use the mobile RFID scanners to greatly reduce the time required to perform unit level receiving of new inventory items. Manhattan's new RFID capabilities can also be used to speed up sales transactions and returns.

Readers placed at the point-of-sale capture tag information as soon as merchandise is placed on the counter, immediately populating the customer's shopping cart.