How can retailers improve inventory accuracy and on-shelf availability?

Retailers can improve inventory accuracy and on-shelf availability by replacing manual scans and periodic counts with continuous, real-time inventory visibility. Wiliot enables automatic tracking of products across stores and distribution centers, helping retailers replenish low-stock items before they become out-of-stocks and ensuring more consistent product availability.

What is Physical AI and how does it transform retail supply chains?

Physical AI transforms retail supply chains by turning products and assets into continuous data sources that feed real-time intelligence into digital systems. Wiliot’s battery-free IoT Pixels give every item a digital identity, allowing AI-powered systems to monitor product movement, condition, and location while automating replenishment, exception management, and operational optimization.

How does Wiliot help retailers reduce waste and improve product quality?

Wiliot provides real-time tracking of product location, temperature, and handling across the retail supply chain. This allows retailers to quickly identify delays, mishandling, or inventory risks, improve product rotation through FEFO practices, reduce spoilage, and ensure products maintain higher quality throughout their lifecycle.

How is Wiliot different from RFID and barcode-based systems?

Traditional RFID and barcode systems depend on manual scans or checkpoint-based reads, which create visibility gaps. Wiliot offers continuous, ambient visibility by automatically transmitting data without scanning, delivering real-time product intelligence across the full supply chain while using more scalable and cost-effective infrastructure.

How does Wiliot improve retail operations and workforce efficiency?

Wiliot automates inventory tracking, data capture, and exception monitoring, reducing the need for manual counts, scanning, and troubleshooting. Retail employees receive real-time alerts and actionable insights, allowing them to focus on customer service, merchandising, and other higher-value tasks while lowering labor costs.

What ROI can retailers expect from Wiliot?

Retailers typically achieve ROI through reduced waste, improved inventory accuracy, lower labor costs, and increased sales from better product availability. Large-scale deployments often generate significant operational savings, improved supply chain efficiency, and enhanced customer experiences.

The Opportunity

Retail supply chains are more complex than ever. Omnichannel fulfillment, BOPIS, next-day delivery expectations, and growing shrink and loss challenges have raised the stakes for inventory accuracy and supply chain visibility to an entirely new level. Yet most retail operations still depend on periodic manual counts, reactive replenishment, and siloed data that cannot keep pace with how consumers shop today.

Wiliot gives retailers continuous, item-level visibility into how inventory flows through the supply chain and inside every store — automatically, without scanning. Battery-free IoT Pixels on cases, pallets, and individual products feed the Wiliot Physical AI platform with real-time location and condition data, enabling retailers to automate replenishment, reduce shrink, prevent mis-shipments, and meet omnichannel demand with confidence.

What Wiliot Delivers for Retail

Item-level product intelligence and a continuous view of inventory flow across the supply chain and store network
Automated inbound verification that eliminates receiving bottlenecks and supplier disputes
Outbound shipment verification that prevents wrong-store deliveries before trucks leave the dock
In-store inventory accuracy that supports BOPIS fulfillment and reduces phantom inventory
Shrink and loss reduction through unique, tamper-evident product IDs and real-time location tracking
Automated demand-driven replenishment that reduces stockouts and excess safety stock

Key Outcomes

99%+

Inventory accuracy

Up to 90%

Reduction in mis-shipments

30–50%

Reduction in receiving labor

<1 Year

Average ROI timeline

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Shipping & Receiving

Eliminate receiving bottlenecks and protect every shipment from source to store
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Manual inbound verification creates 24–48-hour delays before inventory is available, introduces data entry errors, and leaves retailers exposed to supplier disputes with no objective proof of receipt. Wiliot automates the entire inbound process — detecting tagged goods automatically as they enter the receiving area, matching quantities against POs and ASNs in real time, and generating digital goods receipts without any manual scanning.

Unique, secure product IDs on every tagged item also provide a layer of anti-counterfeiting and grey market protection — ensuring products arrive at the correct destination and are traceable throughout the supply chain. Retailers gain 99%+ receipt accuracy, an objective timestamped proof of arrival for every delivery, and the ability to dynamically route shipments based on real-time demand signals.

In Transit

Real-time shipment visibility across every leg of the retail supply chain
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Whether moving from DC to store or fulfillment center to customer, Wiliot provides real-time visibility into the location and condition of every shipment. Operators can track what has been loaded, confirm it is en route to the correct destination, and receive immediate alerts if anything deviates from plan — all without manual scanning or check-ins.

This continuous in-transit visibility reduces mis-deliveries, prevents load errors from being discovered only after trucks have departed, and gives retail logistics teams the data they need to optimize vehicle loading, improve route efficiency, and reduce unnecessary trips.

Under the Roof

Continuous inventory intelligence inside every store and distribution center
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Accurate in-store inventory is the foundation of omnichannel retail. Without it, BOPIS orders cannot be fulfilled reliably, replenishment is reactive rather than proactive, and phantom inventory erodes customer trust. Wiliot replaces manual cycle counts with continuous, automated inventory tracking across every defined area — backrooms, sales floors, stockrooms, and distribution centers.

Inventory updates automatically as products move, eliminating the lag between physical reality and system records. Real-time replenishment alerts surface low-stock items before they become out-of-stocks. Zone-based tracking quickly locates misplaced products. The result is the accurate, always-current inventory data that modern omnichannel retail demands.

Why Retail Leaders
Choose Wiliot

Item-Level Traceability

Unique, secure product IDs on every tagged item enable full supply chain traceability, anti-counterfeiting protection, and grey market detection.

Omnichannel Readiness

Continuous, accurate in-store inventory data enables reliable BOPIS fulfillment, demand-driven replenishment, and reduced phantom inventory.

Scan-Free Automation

Battery-free IoT Pixels require no active scanning — inbound verification, inventory tracking, and shipment confirmation happen automatically.

Shrink & Loss Reduction

Real-time location tracking and secure product IDs reduce shrink, prevent diversion, and surface misplaced or missing inventory immediately.

Labor Efficiency

Eliminating manual counting, scanning, and reconciliation reduces receiving labor by 30–50% and frees staff for higher-value work.

Seamless Integration

Cloud-to-cloud (C2C) data transfer integrates with existing ERP, WMS, and OMS platforms. SDK and open APIs available for custom workflows.

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Wiliot connects pallets, cases, and assets, to grocers, giving their Wiliot helps retailers transition to the new world of omni-channel, next gen in-store experiences with more efficient store real-estate and staffing, optimized inventory levels, and prevented waste and loss.

When one of our IoT Pixels is applied to your product, you can:

Achieve item-level product intelligence and a continuous view of how inventory flows through your supply chain and in your stores
Automate your supply chain and inventory to satisfy demand forecasts quicker and more cost-effectively, and drive omnichannel purchase / BOPIS
Satisfy consumers and generate revenue by increasing on-shelf availability and reducing overstock and out-of-stocks.

This is all possible and more with Wiliot.

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Shipping & Receiving

Autonomously Verify Loading & Unloading Workflows

Reduce waste and loss with unique, secure IDs that ensure your products arrive at the correct destination and avoid grey markets. Dynamically route shipments based on demand signals, and easily identify counterfeit or misdirected products in the supply chain. Know what products came in first, so they can go out first, and track them to their final and correct destination.

In Transit

Monitor Goods as They Move

Whether first, middle, or last mile, Wiliot provides retailers with real-time visibility into the location and temperature of any item, empowering operators with the tools to ensure that every shipment arrives on time and in the right condition. Passively track what’s been loaded, to what’s en route, and verifying quality the entire journey, to prevent mis-shipments and mis-deliveries, reduce waste, improve on-shelf availability and load utilization, all while reducing the burden on your workforce.

Under the Roof

Indoor Asset Intelligence

Track asset and product inventories in real-time inside every store or distribution center, eliminating the need for manual counts, to ensure low-stock items are replenished before they become out-of-stocks. Monitor individual temperature conditions for each item to ensure proper handling and transform FIFO “First In, First Out” inventory management into FEFO—"First Expired, First Out”. Quickly locate misplaced products with zone-based tracking and real-time alerts, reducing waste, preventing operational errors, to meet customer demands.

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How can retailers improve inventory accuracy and on-shelf availability?

What is Physical AI and how does it transform retail supply chains?

How does Wiliot help retailers reduce waste and improve product quality?

How is Wiliot different from RFID and barcode-based systems?

How does Wiliot improve retail operations and workforce efficiency?

What ROI can retailers expect from Wiliot?

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