Due to the short shelf-life of flowers (circa 7 days) good inventory management is required to minimize disposals. The trade-off between supplying enough to meet demand yet not too much to prevent expiration is a delicate matter. However, in the current situation uncertainty about inventory levels due to inadequate information and conventional replenishment strategies lead to a situation that does not perform efficiently. This paper demonstrates how an RFID overhead system can be designed that has 98\% reading performance for inventory. Furthermore is showed how this access to better information can already lead to a reduction between 30-50\%, depending on the type of distribution the demand follows. If there are obvious seasonal trends, then the better information in combination with optimal control can have a reduction of 90\% in disposed products with the same availability of products. These reductions are significantly sufficient to conclude that the benefits comfortably break-even with the investments from the inventory system.