RFID tracking and indoor mapping software for Bangladesh

Ready-made garments account for the large majority of Bangladesh’s export earnings, from knitwear and T-shirts to woven shirts, denim and outerwear. Factories cluster around Dhaka — Gazipur, Savar and Ashulia, Narayanganj — and around Chattogram, many of them inside the export processing zones run by BEPZA. A large factory may run several buildings of cutting, sewing, washing, finishing and packing floors.

Spatial Map maps each building floor by floor and colours lines, WIP buffers and fabric and trims stores from your ERP or production data. A bundle or cart scanned at the end of a line moves on the map; a line starved of cut pieces shows before the supervisor’s report. The Summit Assembly demo shows the pattern with three lines, seven docks and 351 RFID WIP carriers.

Many international apparel brands and retailers now ask their suppliers to apply RFID labels or tags at source, so that garments arrive at the brand’s distribution centres and stores already tagged. For the factory that usually means encoding or receiving pre-encoded labels, attaching them at finishing or packing, and checking each carton’s contents before it ships. The exact requirements come from each buyer.

Spatial Map does not encode labels. What it adds is the floor: the tunnel reader or carton-audit station on the packing-hall plan, each carton read placed at the station and the shipping dock, and the cartons that failed a check marked where they wait. RFID for retail stores shows what happens to those tags after they reach the shop, and our post on RFID tags for apparel covers tag choice.

Chattogram is Bangladesh’s main seaport and handles most of its seaborne trade, including most garment exports. Export cartons are usually stuffed into containers at private off-dock depots around the port rather than at the quay, and import fabric and trims are unstuffed there too.

A depot on the map has its sheds, stuffing bays and stacking yard, with cartons staged by container and by buyer. RFID or barcode scans at the shed door show which cartons are loaded and which are still waiting before the vessel cut-off. The Eastport demo shows dock doors, yard slots and 1,180 RFID pallets. Spatial Map does not connect to port or customs systems.

Much of the country’s consumption and its garment supply chain meet around Dhaka: FMCG and pharma distributors’ warehouses, trims and accessories stores, and the rail-linked Kamalapur inland container depot. Goods move between Dhaka and Chattogram by road and rail, and air freight through Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport fills the gap when a shipment is late.

A trims store with thousands of SKUs — buttons, zips, labels, thread — is a rack map with bins coloured by stock from your ERP; a distributor’s warehouse shows rack-level stock and the dispatch dock. The Crestline demo shows 2,204 rack locations on one map.

Buyers and their auditors visit factories often, and building, fire and social compliance are checked by the buyer’s own programmes. A read-only share link can show an auditor exactly the floors and layers you choose — exits, fire equipment, assembly points — with an expiry date, without an account. Spatial Map is not an audit or certification tool and makes no compliance claim.

Bangladesh issued a Personal Data Protection Ordinance in 2025; it matters if tracking is tied to workers, and your legal advisers decide what applies. Most projects tag bundles, cartons and equipment, not people. The interface is in English (also Arabic, Chinese, French, German and Spanish), not Bengali; your own labels can be written in Bengali script. Spatial Map is sold online in US dollars and our team works remotely through the contact form.