Barcode scanners provide an efficient, easy-to-use data collection solution for all sorts of industries. From healthcare to retail, companies are discovering the numerous benefits of implementing a barcoding solution. Here’s just one example: Imagine that you work for one of the largest food distributors in the nation. You are at your monthly corporate meeting and…
Manual process presents challenges in areas of organization and real-time visibility. Improving your inventory management through the use of mobile computing will reduce errors by improving accuracy, saving time for better resource allocation and give you the visibility you need. This type of inventory management/tracking technology is especially important in the highly competitive and growing…
I wrote recently about the importance of establishing reliable patient- and specimen-identification protocols and of then following them. That last part, actually following established protocol, may seem too obvious to waste space here saying, but my research revealed that simply failure to follow established procedures is indeed a leading, if not the leading, cause of…
It’s hard to master big concepts like Cloud Computing with head down and full focus on the nuts-and-bolts components upon which such grand-but-figurative infrastructures depend. I’m a literal sort working with literal components for whom thoughts of figurative infrastructures can be distracting. The Cloud, Big Data, The Internet of Things? Huge, empowering concepts, no doubt,…
Witches, ghosts, pumpkins, and candy are all words that you can associate with Halloween. I mean who doesn’t love Halloween? You get to dress up and get free candy! I always loved trick-or-treating and then trading with my friends and family for the best candy…Reese’s, M&Ms, and Junior Mints. And you can’t forget about that…
Small. Light. Portable. Simple. These words have quickly become part of our vocabulary in an age of “can’t wait” “what’s next” and “I want it now”. For some, it’s just for convenience. For others, it’s a whole new world of efficiency when a new product comes along that seems leaps and bounds above the rest. …
In retail today, the competition is fierce. Considerable changes in customer expectations over the years have put increasing pressure on the customer service function. In order to differentiate themselves, retailers are working hard to find ways to improve customer interactions in innovative and techno-savvy formats. They are also looking to create high-performance operational environments as…
While perhaps most famous for its edgy marketing campaigns, publicly traded American Apparel also managed to gain unintended notoriety throughout its 24-year history as an easy mark for theft – so much so that a novel was published in 2009 under the title, Shoplifting From American Apparel. So, in 2011-12 the company got serious about…
It is highly likely that you spend a significant amount of time trying to come up with ways in which you can boost worker productivity without taxing the worker or the company’s capital expenditures. Many organizations are now using wireless scanning devices, in partnership with a warehouse management system (WMS) to bring real‐time computing and…
Many companies are working to get every bit of use out of their existing equipment in their warehouse operations, while trying to reduce overhead costs at the same time. As a result, this has forced an awareness of the importance of support and maintenance services to keep data collection equipment in good working order, and…
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