Retail moves in real time. Customers, stock, and expectations never stop. Traditional systems only show inventory at rest, not as it happens. Our Inventory Engine changes this by giving retailers a reliable, real-time view they can trust across every channel.
Trusted by leading global retailers
Nedap’s Inventory Engine is a proven real-time platform powering billions of item interactions worldwide. It turns constant data capture into connected intelligence, giving teams the confidence to act instantly —unlocking a wide range of retail possibilities.
Increase sales and item availability through real-time, in-store refill suggestions.
Prevent losses by detecting suspicious movements and ensuring secure transactions.
Empower store teams with clear insights that guide replenishment, fulfilment, and service actions.
Deliver an inventory experience your customers can trust, ensuring reliable availability and a consistent brand experience.
Enable seamless checkout experiences across channels.
Find items fast with accurate item-level location data.
The Inventory Engine turns every item, shelf, and store into real-time insights. Combined with the Smart Edge, every movement becomes a clean, reliable signal. Fragmented data becomes one trusted source of truth that supports faster decisions and simpler operations.
The Inventory Engine is the operating system for real-time retail – the brain that interprets constant motion and turns it into clarity and action. It consists of four core components that form a living, adaptive system that understands the physical world and responds in real time:
The physical antenna of the Inventory Engine. Certified, purpose-built readers that capture every item movement instantly and reliably, providing precise, real-time visibility of what happens in the physical world.
The Autonomous RFID capability that connects the Smart Edge to the Inventory Engine. It unifies data streams from handhelds, portals, tunnels, and overhead readers, ensuring every certified device delivers clean, high-quality, real-time data into the Inventory Engine without friction, loss, or delay, making all edge signals directly usable in the continuous loop.
The layer within the Inventory Engine where item movements are transformed through a continuous loop of insight, action, and improvement. This is where raw signals become meaningful, trusted intelligence that strengthens reliability with every interaction.
The actionable output of the Inventory Engine. Dashboards, analytics, and system integrations that translate connected intelligence into better decisions for replenishment, fulfilment, allocation, loss prevention, and day-to-day store operations.
Reliable data leads to real outcomes: higher availability, lower operational costs, reduced shrink, faster replenishment, and smoother experiences for teams and customers. Physical actions become digital intelligence instantly. The Engine translates movements directly into actions, reducing manual work and supporting faster, more accurate decisions.
By understanding inventory as it happens, teams can act with certainty. Retail moves in sync with customer behavior.
Inventory flows through the Inventory Engine in real-time. So every physical interaction becomes digital intelligence, instantly, feeding a continuous loop of insights and actions.Understanding inventory as it happens instead of a static number means retailers can operate with clarity and confidence. The Engine interprets this constant motion at item level to align teams around one reliable view, reduce manual checking, and support faster, more accurate decisions.
At NRF 2026, we invite you to experience retail the way it should be: with technology showcases, store tours, and strategy sessions— all enabled by our real-time inventory engine. At Booth 3121, see our inventory engine in action, learn about our new tech, and pick up some custom swag.
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