Friday, June 12, 2015

Choose Your Barcode Inventory Management Software With Care

By Bernadette Martin


Any business needs to keep a record of all of their products whether it is tin foods, clothing or furniture. Without barcode inventory management software this will be almost impossible and if it needs to be done manually can take many hours to complete. Not to mention the extra pay that will be need for overtime.

These barcodes are needed in order to identify the make, track the work in progress, direct shipments as well as providing identification for warranty and service. The benefits include precise information as well as real time visibility. Those that use this method are able to achieve as much as fifty percent more return on their ERP investment.

HandiFox is mobile software that helps to keep track of your goods as well as sales for any small business. The software itself also should feature a barcode scan option, as well as creates and receives purchase orders, shipment verification and automates the actual counting. The Sales automation features are processing of payments, capturing the customer's signatures, as well as all sales transactions on a mobile device.

When it comes to the management reports the standard can handle about sixty and the others eighty and above. For the update process in real time itself, it is better to take the Professional and Enterprise version as the Standard does not have this feature. The same goes for the PC network support.

eTurns has software that can manage the stockroom contents at the point of use. It is able to be used with any WMS or ERP system and will know when needing to re-stock supplies. The starting price is sixty eight dollars a month and it comes with a free trial. The deployment in web based and training can be done through documentation as well as webinars, on-line and in person.

There are a variety of different barcode scanners that will ensure quick work and the different makes are from Motorola, Honeywell, Intermec and Datalogic. The Datalogic Gryphon 1 GM4400-HC 2D is cordless and has a range up to thirty metres. The radio frequency is available in either 910 MHz or 433 MHz. It has a multi-point as well as a point-to-point transmission and an Omni-directional reading.

It can be used for both presentation and handheld reading and also has a motion sensing technology. This allows it to automatically change from a hand free to handheld mode. It has the ability to store thousands of codes in its memory as well as uninterrupted scanning.

The Datalogic Power Scan 7000 has a range of three metres as well as a wide angle code reading. It is very easy to use and is versatile. It has a very high speed and can read up to three hundred and ninety scans per second. This is considered to be the fastest industrial scanner there is. It offers two multi-interface combinations. The first is the Standard and includes the RS-232 Keyboard Wedge and USB and the second includes the RS-232, IBM46xx as well as a USB. Another feature that many find very appealing is that it has a drop resistance of two meters.




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