Visual QA for Footwear: From Factory Floor to Customer Returns

Footwear supply chains handle thousands of SKUs, fast production cycles, and complex reverse logistics. Across factories, warehouses, and retail locations, even small errors - like stitching defects, mismatched sizes, or swapped boxes can have big impacts on brand trust, margins, and customer retention.

Tiliter’s Vision AI Agents introduce automated, image-based quality checks that scale with your operations:

• In Manufacturing
  • Detect flaws in material, stitching, soles, or branding before boxing.
  • Flag inconsistencies in colour, sizing, or design details that visual inspectors may miss.
• At Returns
  • Verify that returned items match their original barcode and packaging.
  • Detect swapped or tampered products that can’t be restocked.
  • Reduce manual handling time and shrinkage due to fraud.
• In Distribution
  • Check that shoes are correctly paired and labelled during sorting.
  • Ensure correct allocation of sizes and colours to the right regions or outlets.

Real-World Impact:
In a global retail operation processing thousands of returns per week, a 1–2% misidentification rate can result in seven-figure losses annually - whether from fraud, write-offs, or misallocated stock. Vision AI reduces this rate dramatically by providing fast, consistent, and scalable verification, ensuring every product meets expectations before it reaches the customer or re-enters inventory.

Whether at the factory gate or the retail backroom, Vision AI Agents add precision to every step. so your team can focus on fulfilment, not firefighting.