The stocktake weekend
A full count takes minutes with a reader instead of a weekend with a clipboard — and it reconciles to the ledger rather than replacing it.
RFID
The pallet, the carton, the garment.
RFID is not one feature at one level. A pallet can carry a tag whether or not its cartons do, and a carton can carry one whether or not the garments inside it do. Weavwork reads whatever is there against the record it already holds — and where there is nothing to read, the barcode and the packing list still run the flow.
Pallet P-0041tagged
One pass of the reader returns 313 reads: 1 pallet, 24 cartons, 288 garments. Each one lands on the record it belongs to.
Where it reads
- Goods-in
- A portal at the door or a handheld on the dock. The container reconciles against the shipment as it is unloaded, not the following Tuesday.
- Despatch
- A portal at the loading door reads the pallet as it goes on the truck and checks it against the consignment before it moves.
- On the floor
- A handheld for putaway, cycle counts and the full stocktake — the aisle instead of the clipboard.
- At the store
- A fixed reader or a handheld for floor stock, back-of-house and what came back over the counter.
Ordinary EPC Gen2 hardware — fixed portals or handhelds, bought from whoever you like. Weavwork is what they read into.
At this level
Tag the garment and stock stops being an estimate.
Every unit answers for itself — on the floor, in the box, at the till and on the way back.
- Goods-in in one passA container reconciles at the door: every pallet read as it comes off, against the shipment Weavwork already knew was landing. What is missing is a fact before the driver leaves.
- Where the pallet isEach pallet reads to a location on your floor or your 3PL’s, with the shipment, the production order and the styles inside it one click away.
- Despatch verified at the doorRead the pallet as it is loaded and every carton on it is checked against the consignment. A carton that belongs to another customer is flagged before the truck moves.
- Carton-level handoverYour 3PL receives by carton against the packing list Weavwork sent them, so a short delivery is a reconciled number rather than an argument three weeks later.
- Stocktake without countingWalk the aisle with a reader and the count is done in minutes, reconciled to the ledger, with the variance broken out by SKU instead of by guess.
- The right unit in the right boxThe pick reads as it is packed. A 2XL in a carton the slip says is size M never leaves the building, and the customer portal shows what actually shipped.
- A return reads back to the runA garment that comes back carries its own identity: the order it sold on, the run that made it, the fabric lot it was cut from. A fault becomes a pattern you can see, not an anecdote.
Turn any level off. They are independent — a tagged garment inside an untagged carton still reads, and so does a tagged pallet of cartons that carry nothing but a barcode.
Where it sits
One chain, this link.
Every flow in Weavwork is a view of the same connected record — so nothing here is a module bolted on beside the others.
- StyleSKU tree · BOM
- Samplerounds · specs
- Ordergrid · price list
- Production managementplan · WIP · QC
- Shipmentvessel · ETA
- Warehousepick · pack · count
- Accountingstock value that agrees
RFID reads at the doors: goods-in against the shipment Weavwork was already expecting, and despatch against the consignment it has just built. What it buys accounting is a stock figure nobody has to caveat — the count and the ledger are the same number, because the count reconciles to it.
How it runs
Step by step, on one record.
- 01Encode at the source
A tag is written when the carton is packed or the garment is made, encoded to the code the product tree already generated. The factory can print and encode as it packs, so a pallet arrives knowing what it is.
- 02Read at the door
A portal at goods-in or despatch reads the whole pallet as it passes. Weavwork already knows what that shipment or consignment should hold, so the read is a reconciliation rather than a data-entry job.
- 03Reconcile, do not retype
What was read is matched to the shipment, the production order and the packing list. Missing, extra and misplaced come back as three named lists while the driver is still in the yard.
- 04Count the floor and the store
A handheld walks the aisle for cycle counts and stocktakes; a store reads its own floor stock. Both reconcile to the same ledger, with the variance by SKU.
A week with it
What it looks like on a Wednesday.
Three days from one week, on the sample data that runs through this site.
Monday
A container at the door
Twenty-two pallets read as they come off, against the shipment Weavwork already knew was landing. One pallet is short two cartons and it is a fact before the driver leaves.
Wednesday
Despatch that verifies itself
Northline’s pallet is read as it is loaded. A carton that belongs to another consignment is flagged, pulled and re-picked without anyone opening a box.
Friday
The aisle, in minutes
A stocktake on the polo bay is a walk with a reader. The count reconciles, the variance is by SKU, and nobody gave up a Saturday for it.
What it removes
The jobs that stop existing.
The wrong carton on the truck
A carton belonging to another consignment is flagged as the pallet is loaded, not when the customer opens it.
A fault you can only anecdote
A tagged garment reads back to its order, its run and its fabric lot, so a recurring fault becomes a pattern with a cause attached.
Who works in it
The same record, three seats.
Warehouse
Goods-in, putaway, picks and counts read rather than typed — and a variance you can act on instead of argue about.
Logistics
What is on the pallet, what is on the truck and what actually left, checked at the door against the consignment.
Retail and stores
Floor stock against back-of-house per store, without closing the doors to find out.
Questions
The ones we get asked.
Do we have to tag everything?
No, and most floors should not start there. Tag the pallet, the carton or the garment in any combination — they are independent, and a tagged garment inside an untagged carton still reads.
Do we need RFID at all?
No. Every flow in Weavwork runs on scanned barcodes and the packing list. Tags make the reads faster and the counts certain; they are never the price of entry.
Whose hardware is it?
Yours. Ordinary EPC Gen2 readers — fixed portals or handhelds — bought from whoever you like. Weavwork is what they read into.
Can the factory encode the tags for us?
Yes, and that is the cheapest place to do it. The supplier portal can print and encode as it packs, against the codes the product tree has already generated.
Keep going
Two more flows, and the whole product.
See it on your own range.
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