LTC s.r.l. (Logistics and Traffic Center), an Italian third-party logistics firm that fulfills orders for fashion companies, has implemented an RFIDreader infrastructure at its warehouse and fulfillment center in Florence, in order to track individual fashion items tagged by various producers whose goods move through its facilities. The reader infrastructure became operational at the end of December 2009, says Meredith Lamborn, a member of LTC's investigation group, and two of the company's clients are currently speeding up the distribution of their fashion items by taking advantage of that reader infrastructure.
LTC, which fulfills orders that include 10 million items each year, expects to process 400,000 RFID-tagged items in 2010 for Royal Trading s.r.l., which owns the Serafini brand of high-end men's and ladies footwear, and San Giuliano Ferragamo, with its Fashionis brand. Both companies are embedding EPCGen 2 RFID tags into items, or tagging them with RFID hangtags at the point of production, in Italy.
