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100 BILLION RFID PROJECT IN JAPANESE RETAILING INDUSTRY
Oct, 2017
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Government of Japan
PARADIGM SHIFT in Japanese retail industry
Demographic issue, Shortage of Labor
125million people(2000) → 80million people(2065)
Changes in consumer-mind
→ Buying services rather than various goods. → Peer to Peer Economy
Electric Commerce
Increase in the buying internet shop by the smartphone
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Per-Hour Wages(Left)
Jobs-to-Applicants Ratio(Right)
The retail industry in Japan has been facing a labor shortage and a variety of
issues across its supply chains, including food loss and returned goods.
Background
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17%
83%
(Source) Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, JOBS Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, The Council for the Collaboration between the Manufacturing, Distribution and Sales Sectors
Edible Portion 3.4mil t
Non-Edible Portion
16.1mil t
Food Loss (2014) Returned Goods Rate (2016)
※The amount of food aid by WFP is 3.2 mil t in 2014.
※Food loss is 6.2milt Including households. 6.2 mil t means that one Japanese is wasting a cup of rice everyday.
Jobs-to-Applicants Ratio and Wage Height in Retail
(Yen)
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Total GMS SM CVS Drug HC DS
Processed Food(Left)
Daily Necessaries(Right)
Supply chain needs ”Digitization”, ”Standardization”, ”Sharing” to be more efficient and valuable.
METI is trying to make innovation by Digital Receipt, RFID, Smart Payment.
Innovation of Commercial Flow, Logistics, Payment
MANUFACTURES DISTRIBUTORS RETAILERS CONSUMERS
COMMERCIAL FLOW
Logistics
Payment
Business Message Standards(EDI) Digital Receipt
RFID(Electronic Product Code Information Service)
Electronic Data Interchange for Payment Smart Payment
Blue arrow : Done, Orange arrow: Not yet 3
Future of Smart Store
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The amount of sale has leveled off
Diversification of consumer
Rising cost
Get and analyze the data of consumer and goods
Create potential demand
Customize the service
Work efficiency and Labor saving
<Smart Store>
Marketing Camera RFID
Digital Receipt
Smart Payment
AI/Demand forecast
Multilingual goods information
Declaration of Plan to Introduce 100 Billion Electronic Tags for Products in Convenience Stores (April 18, 2017)
<Qualification conditions involving the declaration>
The companies should set the unit production price of a “dissemination-type” electronic tags to one yen or less (cost taken for processing such tags, including a combination of an IC chip, antenna and creating seals), to be attached to all applicable products (some products have special disqualifying conditions for the time being, e.g., those warmed by microwave, stored in metal containers, frozen/chilled and ultra-thin).
They should develop a system for fully accomplishing source tagging, where manufacturers themselves attach the electronic tags to their products, and in which nearly all their products can be incorporated into their system using radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.
<Text of the declaration>
By 2025, Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Ltd., FamilyMart Co., Ltd., Lawson, Inc., Ministop Co., Ltd., and JR East Retail Net Co., Ltd. (operator of NewDays convenience store chains) should attach electronic tags to all products sold in their convenience stores (estimated to be 100 billion products per year) and achieve individual-item monitoring for every product.
In this process, the companies must consider providing a portion of the information that they acquire through using such electronic tags to supply chains.
The companies should start electronic tag demonstrations around 2018 by attaching such tags to products in their convenience stores in certain areas, aiming to achieve individual-item monitoring for every product.
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Annual sales of convenience stores in Japan is 100 billion dollars. And 100 billion unit goods are sold annually since the average unit price per item is 1 dollar.
Including other retailers, the number of goods sold annually exceeds 100 billion.
Influence
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Convenience Stores
The Other Retailers
100 billion RFID tag
Already Spread
Not yet Spread
Apparel etc.
1 billion RFID tag
The number of stores in Japan is decreasing. However, they are converging to robust entities through changes in their business categories.
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(Source)New Supermarket Association of Japan
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Number of stores
(Source)Japan Association of Chain Drug Stores
(Source) Census of Commerce, Economic Census
Number of stores
Number of stores
The Concept of this Project
The Concept of this project is to return the information read from RFID tags back to the person who attached the tags.
Agreeing to this concept is a condition to participate in this project (However, exceptions may be accepted through consultation.).
Examples of information provided by participants
Acceptance or Delivery Information
Shipping Information
Inventory Information
Sales Information
Smart Shelf Information
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The testbed will be started in Tokyo in 2018.
We will build a prototype of supply chain information sharing system, and verify the usefulness and format of the information obtained from each RFID tag through distribution of goods which is source tagged.
Source Tagging. Reading shipment tags.
Reading tags during receipt, storage, and distribution of goods.
Reading tags during receipt inspection, inventory counting, and checkout.
Reading tags with doors, refrigerators, and recycle bin.
Shipping Information Expiration Date Consumption Information
Getting supply chain information through distribution of goods which is source tagged
Testbed to Innovate Supply Chain with RFID
Scope of the Testbed
【MANUFACTURES】 【RETAILERS】 【DISTRIBUTORS】 【CONSUMERS】
Supply Chain Information Sharing System(EPCIS)
Manufacturing Date Style of Packing Inventory Information POS Data
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Fast Lane
We aim to eliminate congestion at check out through the spread of RFID.
In the testbed, test stores will be installed “special shelves” on which goods with RFID tags are displayed. When people purchase only the goods on “special shelves”, they can use Self-Checkout RFID Register (“Fast Lane”),.
<Image of the test stores>
The shelf of goods to be attached RFID. Goods often bought at convenience stores
are targeted for the testbed, RFID
People who purchase only goods on “special shelves” can use “Fast Lane”.
To achieve stress-free shopping.
Special Shelf
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Utilization (retail stores)
self-checkout register
Quick payment Shorten waiting time
Smart shelf
RFID reader of the shelf itself Automatically stocktaking
Exp.date: 2017/3/20
Exp.date: 2017/3/20
Exp.date: 2017/3/18
Exp. Date: 2017/3/18 1$ Exp. Date: 2017/3/20 1.2$
Reduce food loss
by automatically changing prices according to expiration date
Restrain shoplifting
by the security gate
※image: “REGI-ROBO(R)” referred from Lawson‘s website.
It is possible to automate and optimize of retail operations by attaching the RFID on each goods.
Restrain shoplifting by providing a security gate.
Reduce food loss by automatically changing prices according to expiration date.
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Issues
Reducing the cost of RFID tags, developing technologies, and improving operational methods is necessary to expand RFID to supermarkets and convenience stores.
METI is promoting industry-academia-government collaboration to tackle these problems.
Problems Current status
①Price Unit price 5¢~10¢
②Accuracy Blocking radio waves by water and metal
③Attachment Technology No technology for efficiently attaching tags to products
④Code Standardization Non-standard code is also used
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