...inventory system to a small business may seem costly, but it is really cost efficient and reduces the time consuming tasks involved with inventory. A key advantage of having an automated inventory system is producing an accurate count which can prevent costly issues. Several programs are available to keep track of products with a myriad of features and can be assessed without any financial risk. In the initial process, a barcode scanner is needed to scan the barcode or the information encoded on the item. The scanned information is then sent to and tracked by a central system. A prime example of this process is entailed in purchasing an order. A list of items that are due to for shipping and packing should be included with the purchase order. With this system in process, it should be helpful to locate the items, encode shipping information, and remove purchased items for an accurate count. Along with the barcode scanner, a mobile computer would be necessary for the automated process to serve as the central system. In addition, a barcode printer, barcode label, and the proper inventory software is needed as well. Finding the right software could be tricky, but there are several programs with plenty to offer and perfectly suited for small businesses. The best software should offer several features such as movement history, file import and export, bar code scanning, accessibility for numerous users, customer history, and discount tracking. One of the programs that is...
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...strategies and reports. This is important information you need to make those last minute informed decisions without fear of making the mistakes based on erroneous information. Internet and Mobile Access * Suggestions (CMS) Content Management System * Online ordering * E-Commerce Executive Summary With this system you will be able to communicate with a great deal more people and be able to push your products online which will boost your sales. With online ordering it will cut the cost of hiring employees for phone orders, and give your company a way to have people from all over the world access to your products. Here is our proposed business changes for Riordan Mfg. Proposed Business Changes * Wireless UPC scanners, barcode printers, inventory software, asset tracking, time and attendance systems, Point of Sale (POS) Systems and a range of...
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...com, Jingel A. Tio, Antonio S. Gonzales Jr. Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering De La Salle University, Manila Email: tioj@dlsu.edu.ph, gonzalesa@dlsu.edu.ph Bell Electronics Lab Corporation situated in Calamba, Laguna is engaged in test and assembly of optoelectronics and sensor devices. The company is concentrating on its resources in metal can packaging. The second phase of the company's program is towards the development of other types of optoelectronics and sensors device packaging to support their customer requirements. In this paper, the proponents will present an Automated Inventory System using Portable Data Acquisition (PDA) module to help the company’s growing business. The PDA module is composed of barcode scanner to scan issued and received items, and a Z8F6423 Zilog microcontroller to store the information. A Product Inventory System (PIS) application program is also discussed to show how the PDA module can be interfaced with the PIS. Test results presented in this paper will show apparent improvement of company’s inventory system. 1.0 INTRODUCTION Inventory system is an effective way for monitoring and tracking different materials that are transferred in and out of a company’s warehouse or establishment usually for accounting purposes. It is also important for a company to monitor all the transactions and 140 Bernabe, Dela Cruz, Jao, Tio and Gonzales movement of goods in order to keep an account of all their stocks. However in some establishments...
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...MGIS 301- Management Information Systems 2D Matrix Barcodes in Pharmaceutical Industry Group Project Abstract Team members: Begüm Ekinil, Ezgi Tuğçe Demir, Gözde Şener, Lukas Hrban, Nurgül Karataş, Tolga Akgündüz, Zeynep Hazal Özuslu In general; barcodes are used for data transfer in various industries. As the years go by barcode technology developed and it is still improving itself. One of the major and the most beneficial improvements in barcode technology is 2D matrix barcodes. These items contain much more informational characters than the line barcodes do. There are several applications of this improved system. Tax returns, packing list, driver’s licenses and patient record are the major areas in which 2D matrix barcodes are implemented. Since data matrix codes contain details of component such as manufacturer ID, part number, unique serial number and expiration date, in pharmaceutical industry using such barcodes would increase productivity by reducing time spent in pharmacy and prohibiting fake drugs. 2D matrix barcodes are one of the informational technology masterpieces that make the life easy. The wideness of subject and its improvement trend are the two main reasons behind our choice. Also we specified the project for pharmaceutical industry because 2D labeling technology has remarkable benefits for pharmaceutical purposes. First of all 2D labeling provides additional information coded in the label to allow for supply chain control. Second, pharmacy...
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...Ch.6 Assignment – Harley-Davidson 1. From reading and learning about RFID tags and barcode technologies I can see some advantages and disadvantages for Harley-Davidson to implement the RFID system. I assume that Harley-Davidson has a fairly broad line of incoming products and materials from different suppliers. With this in mind, even though there might be a small price difference between barcode and RFID technology in small units, the costs can be reduced radically in terms of large volumes with the most efficient technology. Obviously the barcode technology is cheaper, smaller and lighter than the RFID tags. However, the RFID technology enables reading from a greater distance and at a faster rate than the barcodes. Additionally they don’t have to be positioned in a line of sight with the scanner, unlike the barcodes. The RFID tags can also carry large data capabilities such as product maintenance, shipping histories and expiry dates; which can all be programmed to the tag. Ultimately the tags can be run with minimal human participation. If all the above things mentioned about the RFID tags are of value for Harley-Davidson, it might be worth considering the use of this technology. Basically it all comes down to the question if paying a slightly higher price for the tag itself but excluding of human participation in monitoring the supply chain and reducing cost that way will help Harley-Davidson create value for its customers. 2. When comparing the use of RFID technology...
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...Vik Shingadia CIS 210 4/19/15 Week 2: Assignment 1 Mark Stone Contents Introduction: 4 The Required Equipments : 4 Maintenance : 6 The Total Cost involved In The Creation The System : 8 Workflow Diagram : 9 Conclusion : 10 References : 11 Introduction: During dinner my sister talked about how she was frustrated with having to manually tack and reorder high demand items. She asked me if I could help her with an automated system, but has a very small budget. These days particularly in the past 10 years, even many smaller businesses have understood that computerized inventory management systems are very useful, accurate and make their jobs much easier than doing the same things manually. Inventory control is important to assure control in businesses that handle transactions revolving around consumer goods. The inventory control system must be able to warn the vendor when one of the items in the store is going to be out of stock soon and make the person who handles this kind of thing reorder (if it is a good system of course), otherwise maybe one day some important items can be out of stock, affecting the business negatively. Simply saying “we don't have that stuff right now”, is somewhat less than fully professional. The Required Equipments : Inventory management technology is a mix of hardware and software designed to add reliability to inventory accounting, reduce incidents of theft and facilitate inventory audits. Individual...
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...identification (RFID) tags that helps in identifying the item type, cost, price, shipment number, date of shipment and virtually any other useful information. Software inventory management solutions replace pen-and-paper systems, thereby reducing the time required to account for inventory additions and subtractions. Describe all the necessary equipment. As the Programmer, I will buy only one laptop, along fast access internet modem, wireless router, barcode scanner, barcode printer, printer and the internet service, due to low availability of funds. For startup, we will begin with the use of the inflow inventory system from Archon Systems. The software will help my sister in the processing of sales to take orders and deduct out of the inventory with one click. This software is also capable of generating instant reports, one of which will show the demand for a given product. We will also setup the laptop with wireless internet access which will enable her to conduct sales and do inventory with the same equipment using a wireless barcode scanner. Then, we will add or upgrade the system in future as soon she is financially capable. And for a person who is frequently on the move will also require a wireless internet device to...
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...of our inventory better so we can stay competitive in the area. TYPE OF EQUIPMENT NEEDED Clothing retailers have to be more on their toes than most other retailers. They have to constantly adjust their stock for the four seasons, holidays and special events throughout the year. Using the manual method could get overwhelming especially around special events and holidays. Over ordering items can lead to having to reduce prices and selling items clearance. Under ordering can lead to a significant loss of your customer base. For this reason, using the automated system is very important for a clothing store. There are many different ways you can set up your automated inventory system. The first system is a standard barcode system. This is where you scan the barcode with a scanning device. Then either the device can upload the information manually or automatically into your inventory management software. Depending on how this is set up, you can keep a very efficient track of your stock. This stock can be ordered by you or automatically by your software by preset values you input yourself. (Figure 1-1)...
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...(About, n.d.). • October 20, 1949, Woodland and Silver filed their patent application for the “Classifying Apparatus and Method.” • October 7, 1952 inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver were the recipient of the first patent for bar coding. • Commercially in 1966, bar codes were used. • 1970, the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code (UGPIC) was written by a company called Logicon Inc. • In 1970, Monarch Marking was the first to use bar coding in the retail industry. UGPIC turned into the UPC symbol set or Universal Product Code, which is still used in the United States. • In 1973 George J. Laurer invented the first UPC or Uniform Product Code. • June of 1974, the first UPC scanner was installed at Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio. Wrigley's gum was one of the first items to receive a bar code on a product....
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...1 Final Project N311 Dr.Peggy Shipley Shannon McKnight 6/14/2014 2. Introduction According to the Institute of Medicine there are more than a million injuries and almost 100,000 deaths associated with medication administration errors every year in the healthcare profession. Administration of medication is a large part of every day nursing care. As the patient’s primary advocates, it is the nurse’s responsibility to make certain these medication errors do not occur and to uphold the patient’s safety. Hebda & Czar (2013) state, “The desire to reduce or eliminate medication errors focuses attention on computerized physician order entry (CPOE), Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA), and e-prescribing”. With the growing amount of medication errors, many institutions are introducing the Bar Code Medication Administration System. This is a system that will aid in assuring the right patient is getting the right medication and reduce the risk for medication errors. Although BCMA will not be a remedy for medication errors, it can provide a safeguard that is not possible with manual method. The implementation of the Bar Code Medication Administration system has been highly proven reduce the number of medication errors, improve patient safety, and increase the nurse’s job satisfaction. 3. Barrier to the Implementation Understanding the barriers to change...
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...reordered in a timely matter. First we need to look at the equipment, cost, and maintenance involved in adding an automated business system to the store. The vendor I choose was Wasp Barcode Technology Systems. EQUIPMENT First, we will look at the equipment necessary to implement a new inventory management system. To keep it simple we will need: * Software * UPC barcode printer * Labels * Scanner The software will tie into the POS system and automatically track sales, returns, and inventory levels. The software I suggest will alert you when inventory levels are low and need to be reordered. Every product will have a barcode that tells the software an item has been removed from the inventory or added to the inventory. Initially we will have to load the software with data about what products are associated with each barcode and print the barcodes to attach to the products. The scanner will be used to tell the software what items are being purchased or inventoried. COST After identifying what equipment we will use we can see how much the equipment and implementation will cost. * People- no need to add more people * Hardware/software 1. Software- $129.00/ 1 license 2. UPC printer- $384.00 plus ink 3. Labels-$50.00 per roll will be an ongoing cost 4. Scanner- $200.00 * Training- familiarization of software will not take long * Licenses/fees- software will require you to purchase additional licenses for additional computers. ...
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...inventory control. RFID tags can be placed anywhere on most items and are readable even when covered with packing materials, dirt, or plastic bands. Bar codes must be visible to be scanned. A bar code scanner must be placed within a few inches of the bar code. Most RFID readers have a range of about six feet. RFID tags are small enough to be installed on the face of credit cards or sewn into clothing items. Using RFID technology can greatly benefit Harley Davidson. RFIDs can track inventory much faster. RFID offers a range from inches to hundreds of feet. With using RFIDs means you do not have to open each box. Individual tags within a carton packed in a box stored on a pallet may be read. RFID can also store much more data than a bar code. RFIDs have read and write capabilities, unlike barcodes, mistakes are less likely and maintaining accuracy is consistent. Using RFID helps manage inventory by making sure that items are stocked and available for the customers. It also improves processing time in terms of ordering needed supplies. RFIDs do have flaws. The cost of implementing RFID in a large company like Harley Davidson would be high.Harley Davidson would need to support not only their massive inventory, but also deal with hundreds of suppliers in providing RFIDs and scanners. There is also the issue of reliability. Since scanning capabilities rely on radio signals, just as a cellphone could lose signal, so can an RFID. Also, in terms of signals, there is always the possibility...
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...Tablet of Contents The Beginning of Walmart Logistic………………………………………………………… 3 Magic of the stripes………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Walmart’s Cross Docking……………………………………………………………………….. 5 Downfall of Barcode System…………………………………………………………………… 6 Power to the RIFD………………………………………………………………………………….. 7 Walmart’s RFID Influence in China………………………………………………………….. 9 The Chinese RFID investment…………………………………………………………………. 10 Chinese market potential………………………………………………………………………… 11 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………………. 12 The Beginning of Walmart Logistic Wal-Mart as we all know it, it is an American multination corporation that operation in a largest chain discount stores in the world. Sam Walton, the successful business man from Arkansas began his retail store in 1940, worked at J.C. Penney and later on started a small retail chain store called “Ben Franklin”. It wasn’t till 1962; Mr. Walton opened the first Walmart store. In the beginning, Walton had his strategy set to low income families and offered a considerably lower cost than his competitors, the low price strategy allowed Walton to steer forward with his real goal to become the supply chain logistics giant. By 1987, Walton have led the store into a growing rampage, Walmart had 1,198 nationwide, sales in the 15.9 billion and had 200,000 associates (Walmart, http://walmartstores.com/aboutus/7603.aspx, 2011), In the same year the company also became the largest private satellite net work in the country and...
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...cost, increases efficiency, insures accuracy and proficiency (if done properly), and leads to greater innovation. There are three types of AIDC technologies are barcodes, cards, and radio frequency identification known as RFID. Barcode technologies are the oldest and most successful AIDC technologies. There are two main sub categories of barcodes. The first category is linear barcodes which are made up of lines and spaces of multiple widths that create specific patterns recognizable to scanners by storing information vertically. These cards are used in many applications where the use of a simple numeric code can provide the key to a database such as product inventory. The limitation to these barcodes is that it can only hold up to eighty five characters or less. Figure 1 to the left is an illustration of a linear barcode that are used in the industry. The second sub category of barcode technologies is 2D barcodes which is a graphical image that stores information both horizontally and vertically. These barcodes allow large amounts of data to be stored in small spaces. These images are commonly found on app advertisement barcodes, which allow the user to access the full capabilities of the app. The 2D barcodes can hold several hundred to thousands of characters. Figure 2 to the right is an illustration of 2d barcodes. The next category of AIDC is card technologies. The first subgroup of this category is magnetic strips which are strips that consist of iron-based magnetic particles...
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...Aide Gateway Technical College April 7, 2015 Table of Contents Summary iii Introduction iv Purpose iv Scope iv Salon Software iv Background v Software Reviews vi Criteria vi SuperSalon Software viii Student Course Completion Management viii Time-clock Tracking & Reporting viii Client Management viii Appointment Scheduling viii Gift Certificates & Cards ix Retail & Inventory Barcode Management ix Point-of-Sale ix Online Software Backup ix Price ix GuestVision Software x Student Course Completion Management x Time-clock Tracking & Reporting x Client Management x Appointment Scheduling x Salon Management Reports x Gift Certificates & Cards xi Retail & Inventory Barcode Management xi Point-of-Sale xi Online Software Backup xi Pricing xi Millennium Software xii Student Course Completion Management xii Time-clock Tracking & Reporting xii Client Management xii Appointment Scheduling xii Salon Management Reports xii Gift Certificates & Cards xii Retail & Inventory Barcode Management xiii Point-of-Sale xiii Online Software Backup xiii Price xiii Conclusion xiv Recommendation xiv Works Cited xv Appendix A xvi Appendix B xvii Appendix C xviii...
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