Sunday, August 23, 2020

Bar code Inventory Management Systems

Welcome back readers, This is Dharunanand R pursuing my MBA second year from Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore. In this blog we will see about "Bar code Inventory Management Systems " and its advatages etc.,


While bar codes are used to oversee stock for more than 20 years, it is a regularly disregarded strategy in assembling, retail and dissemination. In addition to the fact that it is a savvy framework, it is used to reduce overhead costs for the organisation and also provide the real time status for the management of Inventory present in the organization.

It should be integrated properly with the company to provide statistics for cycle count of inventory, reconciliation of the stocks which are then used for tracking the movement from picking, packing and shipping



The effortlessness of the scanner tag stock administration decreases the time spent on          representative preparing. Decreasing the time expected to ace the whole procedure implies  preparing costs are fundamentally marked down and the workers are not troubled with learning the whole stock or its estimating. Shortening the preparation procedure likewise reduces expenses for the business, saving money for trainees.The main reasons for which the company include bar code in their inventory management system is  for the following purposes :

Cost effective 

The main reason behind the usage of bar code labels in organisation inventory management    system is the cost involved in implementing the method. These labels reduce the checking time and also reduce the usage of labour in the organisation. These labels also help to manage the warehouse in centralized locations. The technology can be used to scale up the entire process which is the usage of IOT with bar code to manage the inventory systems

Eliminating Errors 

Errors are unavoidable but need to reduced to deliver more value to the customer and for the  stakeholders of the organisation. The usage of bar code reduce the error to maximum extent    possible which helps the company to save time and the usage of labour for cross checking the inventory.

Access to information 

Since the whole system uses centralized database for accessing the required data, it is available to the stakeholders, anywhere and anytime. This system collect information and store it for the decisions that are need to be taken by the managers to save the time and money for the company.

Security

Organizations should be firmly rushed to guarantee the well being of stock and items. One of the few advantages of utilizing bar code identification is that scanner tags are identifiable. 

That implies standardized tag strips and scanners can be introduced at assigned stacking and emptying zones, forestalling burglary or loss of products, lessening the mistakes. This helps build trust for the clients and prevent errors that rely heavily on accuracy

Simplicity

Most intuitive frameworks for barcoding utilize a standard programming and mistake checking  procedure. This takes into account information to be handled and checked progressively. One of a kind standardized tag marking implies that particular data can be distributed to specific things in the stock. This takes into consideration the brisk and simple reviewing of things with only a scan.

2 comments:

  1. Is there any other advancements that have come up after Bar codes considering the capital it takes and orientation it needs to be in order to scan it

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  2. 2D barcodes (QR codes) can be used

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