|
Posted on Monday, July, 21, 2008, 2:20PM Participants at all points in the supply chain must produce and provide timely, accurate information or they will be dropped as suppliers and excluded from markets. Companies without good information carry excess inventory to ensure they can deliver what they have promised. Replacing inventory with improved information reduces storage space and labor costs, improves asset utilization, enables faster billing cycles, and significantly contributes to cash flow.
To gain more information and visibility into their operations, many companies turned to enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain, customer relationship management (CRM), and other management software. These applications can be highly effective, but are hampered when the data they require is not timely or can’t be collected at all. That is why bar codes endure as the most widely used, cost-efficient and effective tools for providing accurate data to enterprise applications, and why future software performance improvements will rely on advancements in bar code and communications technology.
This paper will show how advanced bar code and related technologies can create sustainable advantages by providing the information required for modern business practices. It will address how bar code data systems improve the performance of enterprise software applications, summarize the general benefits of bar coding, and demonstrate how to improve productivity and save money by utilizing specific applications in receiving, production tracking, quality control, staging, and shipping operations.
More resources from
Zebra Imaging |