Paneri Embroidery had huge stock, no in-house IT team and an ERP vendor new to RFID. Technowave designed, integrated and rolled out a complete RFID retail system. Today the live lingerie department runs at 99% stock accuracy, finishes a full stock count in 1 day and bills customers in about 2 minutes.
Paneri Embroidery has been in retail since 2008. It now runs 5 stores across Gujarat and its own manufacturing unit in Vadodara, selling apparel and accessories, lingerie and beauty products.
Its flagship is a 4-storey building with the warehouse on the top floor. That depth of choice is what customers love, and it is also what made inventory impossible to manage with barcodes and manual counts.
The project came to Technowave through our partner in Ahmedabad. Paneri chose to start with the hardest department in the store: lingerie and undergarments, with more than 100,000 units in a single department.
Before RFID, the store worked on the principle of “what you see is what is available”. Nobody had a real picture of the stock.
Counting one department took 20 to 30 days, so a full count was rarely done.
Physical stock and system stock were far apart, at around 70% accuracy.
Items untouched for months became damaged or obsolete, with little view of stock ageing.
Pyjamas of different sizes could share one code, so the system could not tell them apart.
Only the outer carton of multi-packs was scanned at billing, so loose pieces could leave unbilled.
One billing counter on the ground floor meant long festive-season queues, and store transfers were received without checks.
Technowave owned the complete solution: choosing the right tags and hardware, building the software, integrating with the ERP and training the store team. Paneri did not need an in-house IT team.
50 × 25 mm paper labels, small enough for lingerie and undergarments. The printed barcode, size, colour and MRP are kept.
Labels are encoded and printed in store through the Technowave DSTORE printing application.
Reads full shelves and closed boxes stored at height, without taking them down.
Installed at the billing counter and integrated with the POS for bulk item reading.
Handles every RFID read and transaction between the devices and the ERP.
APIs built jointly by Technowave and the ERP vendor for inward, transfers, stock count and sales.
Technowave created a new structured item code and an EPC conversion algorithm. Each label gets a unique RFID number that carries the item’s ERP barcode inside it, so every RFID read maps straight back to the right ERP item. The DSTORE application pulls item data from the ERP, saves each print job in the backend first and then encodes the label.
Lingerie and undergarments came first: small items, many sizes, dense storage. If RFID works here, it works everywhere.
A logical item-coding structure and EPC algorithm gave every size and colour its own identity before tagging began.
The ERP vendor had very limited RFID knowledge. Technowave ran multiple sessions to explain the requirements and co-developed the APIs, building and testing each module separately in real time.
Tagging the existing stock took almost a year. More people and printers were added, and API testing ran in parallel with tagging and verification.
Untagged items continued to be billed with barcode scanners and tagged items with the RFID reader, at the same counter, so sales never stopped.
Since August 2026, inward, labelling, stock count, transfers and RFID checkout are all live, with the APIs fully integrated. Installing a reader on an already congested billing counter was a challenge in itself, and the counter was reworked to fit it.
Watch the store team count tagged stock with a handheld reader and bill customers at the RFID-enabled counter.
What used to take weeks of manual scanning now takes hours, and customers no longer wait at billing.
System stock now matches what is on the shelf.
A full department count is finished in a single day instead of weeks.
Average billing time cut from 360+ seconds to about 120 seconds.
Each item carries its own RFID number, closing the multi-pack billing gap.
Any piece can be located and ageing stock identified quickly.
Technowave handled hardware, software, integration and support end to end.
“We studied RFID a lot, and the Technowave team helped us a lot, so RFID became a very easy project for us. With barcode scanning, stocktaking used to take months. Now it is completed within a few hours, and the waiting period for customers at billing is almost nothing.”Managing DirectorPaneri Embroidery (translated from Gujarati)
“RFID helped us move beyond the stage where our work used to get stuck during scanning. Our target was achieved, and our staff’s time was saved. The Technowave team has given us very good customer support.”Head of OperationsPaneri Embroidery (translated from Gujarati)
RFID self-checkout tested and deploying; RFID anti-theft software ready.
Every department in the store tagged with RFID.
Every module rolled out to every Paneri store.
RFID labels applied at Paneri’s own factory, making inward seamless.
A digitally powered store built on real-time RFID data.
RFID is simple, provided it is delivered by a qualified system integrator. Paneri, a 5-store retailer in a Tier 2 city, is the proof. Here is what other small and mid-sized retailers can take from this project.
Choose an integrator who owns tags, printers, readers, software and ERP integration.
Prove RFID where stock is densest, then scale with confidence.
A structured item code and EPC plan is the foundation for every module.
Barcode and RFID can run side by side while tagging is completed.
Field-tested labels and readers keep cost and risk low.
No need to replace your software: RFID connects to it through APIs.
Yes. Paneri started with one department in one store, using standard paper RFID labels, one RFID printer, a handheld reader and one POS reader, then expanded step by step.
No. Technowave connected RFID to Paneri’s existing Alpha Soft ERP through APIs and its own middleware.
Yes. At Paneri, untagged items were billed with barcode scanners and tagged items with the RFID reader at the same counter until tagging was complete.
At Paneri, the project began in July 2025 and ERP integration was completed in August 2026. Tagging the existing stock of about 1.9 lakh items took almost a year.
Technowave supports RFID retail projects end to end: workflow study, labels and hardware, software, ERP integration, installation, training and local support.
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