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Working in collaboration with Spain-based retailer Zara, we address the problem of distributing, over time, a limited amount of inventory across all the stores in a fast-fashion retail network.

To stay on top of their inventory, retailers can invest in inventory software, improve warehouse management, utilize forecasting and analyze inventory costs.

In the wake of barcodes came a whole platoon of ideas that fell under the umbrella of automatic identification (AutoID), including radio frequency identification (RFID).