Bar coding is a technique used to record the finished products in your warehouse or storage before they are sold to final customers. For a trading firm, it is even used to record a new shipment of items that may have been received from a manufacturer. The importance of using bar coding to record items during the supply chain process cannot be underestimated because of the immense economic and operational advantages it offers.
The absence of bar coding calls for an extensive procedure of manually counting all the products that are present in the storage area in your organization. This calls for the presence of a number of employees that need to be kept on the permanent rolls of the company for conducting counting operations whenever products are manufactured or received from third parties. A few employees cannot perform the extensive and strenuous task of making a headcount of all the products. Special teams need to be created in order to complete the counting process efficiently.
Bar coding reduces the need of hiring a number of employees and reduces the requirement to one or two employees that are proficient in handling a bar code scanner. All the products can simply be passed under a hand held scanner and all the necessary information about it will be automatically uploaded onto your computer systems. On the other hand, when manual counting needs to be conducted; the relevant data about the product needs to be entered in a tedious and time consuming process. Investing in a bar coding scanner and the related technologies and software is thus considered to be an immensely useful step for any organization especially if it is a large scale one.
Bar coding scanners are generally available in two specific types, manual and automatic. In the case of the latter, you do not even need to hire an employee for running the scanner on the products as the scanning is done automatically. The products need to be placed on a conveyer belt after which they will pass under the scanner one by one. An automatic scanner is generally more expensive than a manual one and is better suited to large scale organizations.
For more details, contact McLane Logistics Technology, 4001 Central Ponte, Parkway, Temple, TX 76504. You can also call us at 1-800-989-7568.
The absence of bar coding calls for an extensive procedure of manually counting all the products that are present in the storage area in your organization. This calls for the presence of a number of employees that need to be kept on the permanent rolls of the company for conducting counting operations whenever products are manufactured or received from third parties. A few employees cannot perform the extensive and strenuous task of making a headcount of all the products. Special teams need to be created in order to complete the counting process efficiently.
Bar coding reduces the need of hiring a number of employees and reduces the requirement to one or two employees that are proficient in handling a bar code scanner. All the products can simply be passed under a hand held scanner and all the necessary information about it will be automatically uploaded onto your computer systems. On the other hand, when manual counting needs to be conducted; the relevant data about the product needs to be entered in a tedious and time consuming process. Investing in a bar coding scanner and the related technologies and software is thus considered to be an immensely useful step for any organization especially if it is a large scale one.
Bar coding scanners are generally available in two specific types, manual and automatic. In the case of the latter, you do not even need to hire an employee for running the scanner on the products as the scanning is done automatically. The products need to be placed on a conveyer belt after which they will pass under the scanner one by one. An automatic scanner is generally more expensive than a manual one and is better suited to large scale organizations.
For more details, contact McLane Logistics Technology, 4001 Central Ponte, Parkway, Temple, TX 76504. You can also call us at 1-800-989-7568.
