Tyco Retail Solutions has been recognised for its commitment to promoting and supporting retailers' sustainability initiatives for the second consecutive year, having won the 2017 Supply & Demand Chain Executive Green Supply Chain Award.
The company, part of Johnson Controls, was recently the recipient of this year’s Green Supply Chain Award, an annual distinction for providers of supply chain solutions and services who assist their customers in achieving measurable sustainability goals. Tyco's 2017 award is in recognition of industry leading green initiatives with its retail customers, including Piazza Italia.
As a leader in fashion, Piazza Italia is committed to delivering the most current styles to its shoppers while maintaining its commitment to sustainability. In 2013, the retailer launched a source tagging programme with Sensormatic Acousto-Magnetic (AM) Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) hard tags offering tangible benefits by combining a strong visual theft deterrent with point-of-manufacture source tagging. The retailer has since changed from single use tags to recirculated hard tags, providing an eco-friendly alternative to disposable tags from both an environmental and a business operations standpoint.
Tyco's global recirculation and source-tagging initiatives provide the green savings and business benefits of recycling and receiving "retail ready" merchandise. Tags are recirculated, recertified and reused through Tyco's efficient supply chain process which cost effectively moves tags around the globe via strategically located recirculation centres, and offering retailers such as Piazza Italia a buy-back incentive to reduce cost of ownership and deliver impactful savings.
The Sensormatic apparel tagging recirculation program, the first of its kind, recycled more than a billion tags in 2015 and has recycled nearly seven billion since the programme began in 2010, saving a total of 35 million pounds of plastic while reducing waste and costs for customers. Today, more than half of Sensormatic brand labels are applied by product manufacturers or packaging companies, instead of in store.
