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*Fashion Industry - An Itinerary Between Feelings and Technology*

by customer, with pre-allocation of garments.

*RFId reading post, Box label printing and application. Source: Oscalito.*

which used to concern about 100 pieces a year.

Italian Identity certification issued by Italcheck.

perception of this kind of technology.

of RFId in the fashion industry.

**Acknowledgements**

cal reading of the chapter.

**5. Conclusions**

**Figure 3.**

As its future objective, Oscalito aims at extending RFId technology to all fabric weaving, finishing and cutting production phases and to warehouse management

The implementation of a production chain traceability system by RFId tags and their readers (printers for initializing cards with RFId tags; tunnels to read warehouse entries and exits; printers for labelling boxes when dispatching) implied an investment of about 70,000.00 euros, increased by costs for the adaptation of the informatics management system and by current expenditure concerning periodical RFId tag purchase. Many benefits were obtained: from production chain management with trace-

Finally, the implementation of the production chain traceability system by RFId

Even if, according to Refs. [59, 60], common criticisms of the case study method are that it lacks rigour and that the dependence on a single case exploration makes it difficult to reach a generalising conclusion, the authors believe that through the Oscalito case study, they have been able to describe their views on a relevant innovative reality. We realise that this research has some limitations due to the applied methodology: we have adopted a qualitative method for a single case study; the findings of the study are based on the first results of prospected deeper research; and further interviews would be required in order to understand a general fashion industry

For this reason, we are planning to carry out further studies on the application

The authors would like to thank the editor and the anonymous referees for their comments and helpful suggestions and Dr. Dario Casalini for his support and criti-

tags has enabled to obtain important supply chain certifications, especially the

ability of garments being repaired, to automatic management of the general warehouse and of consignment accounts with some customers, to management of commercial or defectiveness returns by customers and final consumers who purchase through Oscalito's e-commerce portal, on top of annulment of mistakes in the dispatching phase, eliminating claims on contents of the dispatched pieces,

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The authors have no conflict of interest.
