Enhance Inventory Visibility with Barcode

Background
This company supplies government agencies and private-sector companies with a range of IT services covering systems construction, maintenance and support, and outsourcing. It is also a channel partner with Chainway for hardware support. Recently, the company was working for a client who needed a barcode base solution for inventory management and assets tracking.
 
Challenges

• It was imperative to find a solution for its client that could meet all the requirements for warehouse solution and at the same time provide assets tracking solution as well.

• It was difficult to bring all these components like inventory and company assets together into one user friendly system. Manual system was complex enough to cope with the levels of problems in inventory management, warehouse distribution and warehouse assets tracking.

• Cost-effective solution was needed to fulfil warehouse management and assets tracking solution.

• The traditional manual method of inventory management and assets tracking was laborious, inefficient, and inconvenient.

 
Solution
The company suggested a barcode assets tracking plus warehouse solution which required a software and handheld reader. Chainway C4050 mobile computer with barcode scanner was deployed. Each goods and assets in warehouse were enrolled with a unique ID barcode label which can distinguish it from other goods. This barcode label contains the information like product name, category, production date, permanent assets such as machinery, computers, production equipment, tools etc. The solution confirms the entry of goods in warehouse after scanning the barcode label with C4050 handheld scanner and record automatically updates in central database of warehouse. At this step stock keeper can store the goods quickly at the right place. With the handheld device, a custodian can maintain the record of assets and share the data with central database. The main concern was to have accurate information on each specific item like location, condition, purchase date, value, custodian, last maintenance.

Effects

• This solution changed the traditional manual process of inventory management and assets tracking.

• Administrators can check real-time information like automatically generated statements and tracking records of inventory, goods needed to be dispatch, maintenance record of assets, inbound and out bound movement of goods.

• Assets tracking solution makes the inspection work more convenient and less time taking.

• It ensures the assets safety and realized dynamic monitoring of assets.

• The client is able to fully utilize its assets and improved ROI on assets.

 
PDA Configuration
P/N: C4050
Functions: 2D