As competition has intensified in the past two years, labor costs have risen and customers' demand for better shopping service experience has increased, so business owners are increasingly required to use modern means by which they can accurately manage in-store merchandise and improve store sales services and reduce management costs.
According to market research, many traditional retail stores have some common problems in store management. For example, when selling goods on the spot, the process is cumbersome and slow in response, which delivers poor customer experience. Due to the wide variety of products, inventory counting is done by manual or barcode readers, which is labor-intensive and error-prone; Sales data statistics are completed by manual input, as a result, it is inefficient and error-prone. Furthermore, sales cannot be timely reported to managers.
Based on years of experience in RFID application, after Chainway analyzed of the problems commonly faced by retail stores in the market, and introduced barcode scanning technology into the management of chain stores in the retail industry to realize the operation of in-warehousing, stock-taking, order sorting, etc. The staff only need to scan the barcode information through the handheld PDA, then quickly and accurately collect and compare the store goods, which is convenient and efficient, greatly improves efficiency and accuracy of commodity stock-taking and sorting. In turn, it significantly improves response efficiency for store customers. The specific applications are the following three aspects.
Goods inventory
Barcode is applied to each box of goods. The staff can scan the barcode with handheld PDA to quickly and conveniently count the goods, which greatly improves the efficiency and accuracy of stock-taking. It delivers access for the management of inventory, and greatly improve work efficiency and feedback speed in the supply chain.
Intelligent sorting
When the medicines are sorted in and out of the warehouse, the PDA can automatically identify the goods information by scanning the barcode of the goods and record them to achieve accurate and fast sorting of goods, which saves time and promote efficient operation of the distribution process.
Data management
The staff can scan goods very quickly and pass the database for comparison. There is no misrecording, ensuring that the accounts are always consistent. And through the wireless network, the data can be conveniently transferred to the headquarters database, so that the headquarters can know the sales situation of each store in time.
In addition to the above three aspects, Chainway handheld terminals can be applied to store management, personnel management, logistics, and other fields. Based on the outstanding performance of Chainway handheld terminals, it can help retail enterprises significantly improve work efficiency and improve overall operational efficiency. For instance, the staff can count a large number of goods in a short period of time, which greatly reduces the workload of workers. Chainway handheld terminals support barcode or UHF RFID and can read a large number of tag information at one time, greatly improving inventory efficiency. By directly uploading the inventory data to the ERP system through the handheld terminal, the manual secondary data entry error can be effectively avoided. Real-time data sharing allows managers to keep track of inventory information, make management decisions in a timely manner, and implement inventory visualization management.
