Saturday 23 October 2010

Barcode Scanners

My boss has been talking about getting a barcode scanner for work. He thinks it will help with stock control with new products that we are selling.
In the main, we have sold large high-cost instrumentation in the past, but recently we have expanded into smaller low-cost items that may lead to high-volume turn-over.

In order to speed up the system and allow the sales team to know exactly what we have on the stock shelves, we have been thinking about a barcode system that will be used to scan deliveries coming in and out to keep everything up to date. We are also considering implementing an online e-shop, so having 'live' stock level figures would be very helpful in informing clients how long it will take for them to receive their orders.

Even though the company is only small, technological developments allow even the smallest companies to have a big market presence, and this type of automated stock control could then be implemented into our other product areas - which could make things a lot easier to control!


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