No matter the operation’s size, every business strives for better profitability and customer retention. To do so, companies often track several key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor and forecast business growth. While there are many viable KPIs to track, small and growing businesses are often encouraged to monitor the following indicators:

1. Order accuracy rates address how often orders are shipped with the correct products to the correct customer within the correct allotted time.
2. Inventory turnover rates can record the fluctuating demands for any particular product while assessing your ability to move goods down the supply chain.
3. Gross profit margins provide a clear picture of final profits after operational expenses such as labor, shipping, and the like are paid off.
4. Cash flow forecast assists small businesses in predicting the costs of high demand, so they can make adjustments accordingly before profits are hindered.
5. Funnel drop-off rates allow you to see how many potential customers abandon purchases to optimize business tactics.
6. Market share clearly depicts how your business compares to competitors by measuring company sales with total industry purchases.

To track multiple KPIs in real-time without costly errors, Barcodes, Inc. recommends simplified and scalable digitization

Track it all with Barcodes, Inc. Digitization Solutions – built with Zebra’s Scanners

Unlike paper-based systems, digitized warehouse management curbs the likelihood of manual data entry errors, misplaced files, missed sales, late deliveries, and bottlenecks. Zebra’s enterprise-ready scanners successfully transfer all your crucial data into the digital system of your choice, all for…

• Faster order throughout
• Increased order accuracy rates
• Sharable data with minimized workflow disruptions
• Easy configuration for faster deployment
• Faster onboarding thanks to their intuitive user-friendly build

At Barcodes, Inc., digitization doesn’t have to be complicated. Take a closer look into how we make optimized inventory management seamless, simple, and scalable with Zebra’s rugged scanners. Contact us for a free assessment.

Inventory management is a prominent struggle for most businesses, especially small and growing warehouses. Inconsistent stock counts can severely impact customer loyalty as they lead to surprise out-of-stocks, shipping delays, and misplaced products within the warehouse. Since the effects of improper inventory management can be detrimental, enhancing operational visibility is key to remaining competitive in today’s high-demand markets. To do so, businesses have sought to eliminate:

• Paper-based systems – Small data entry errors can yield enormous costly consequences over time.
• Disparate spreadsheets – Although digital spreadsheets are less likely to contain errors compared to paper-based systems, disparate logs can cause more confusion in the future as employees must navigate through several databases to find needed information.

As a Zebra Premier Solutions Partner, Barcodes, Inc. simplifies inventory management for small and growing businesses with Zebra’s adaptable mobile computers.

Increasing Visibility With Zebra Mobile Computers

Reduce the number of deployed devices and increase digital visibility when you optimize your inventory management system with Zebra. No matter which device you choose to integrate, Barcodes, Inc. closely assists you in connecting your workflows on a digitized platform, enabling:

• Streamlined data capture and processing – Capture barcodes and upload data immediately via your handheld computer to eliminate wait times for faster order fulfillment.
• Greater data security – Not only does Zebra’s fortified Android facilitate onboarding, but it also protects your data with government-grade encryption and recurring security patches.
• Sustained communication systems – Keep your teams unified with integrated push-to-talk capabilities along with long-range WiFi connectivity.
• Maximized uptime from day one – Barcodes, Inc. works alongside your team from design, to deployment, to ongoing support to make sure your visibility solution remains functional whenever and wherever you need it.
• Mobile device management – Barcodes, Inc. can help augment your IT staff by loading mobile device management software, pushing out updates and troubleshooting devices that are down in order to keep your mobile workforce fully operational.

Contact Barcodes, Inc. today to see how you can start optimizing your crucial tasks with technologies built for more efficiency and affordability.

Compared to other prominent warehouse tools like mobile computers and scanners, labeling systems are relatively low-cost, yet they play a vital role in securing inventory accuracy for proper stock counts. As supply chains become more fast-paced, growing businesses may require a scalable and easy-to-use identification solution to:

• Eliminate manual data entry
• Prevent downtime from printer jams
• Maximize printhead lifespan
• Shave off wait times from printing stations

To remain competitive in today’s demanding market, printing and labeling solutions must be adaptable, scalable, and cost-effective, much like Zebra’s Warehouse Printers featured in our video below:

Assessing Your Printing Solution

When evaluating your options, Barcodes, Inc. recommends that you consider the following questions:

1. Can printers handle sudden high printing volumes?

As seen in previous years, order demand can change drastically in a matter of days, automatically ruling out consumer-grade printers as an optimal choice. Enterprise-grade printers such as Zebra’s barcode label printers come in varying sizes to fit different workspaces while harnessing durable printheads, intelligent printing software, and trusted security to prevent breakdowns and cyberthreats during peak seasons. The result is a printing solution that can readily handle greater demand without compromising uptime.

2. Can printers be mobilized?

While industrial and desktop printers can successfully deliver needed labels, they may not be the best mobility choice. Past studies have shown mobile printers to boost processing time by as much as 62% while reducing picking times by almost 50%. This frees up your staff to accomplish other important tasks faster while increasing printer availability without more wait times.

3. Which labeling supplies will I use?

Lastly, efficient printing systems heavily depend on your chosen consumables since they directly impact your hardware’s printhead. Inferior consumables can scratch printheads over time, leading to jams and downtime. On the flipside, smoother quality thermal ribbons protect printheads while retaining legibility in varying conditions, ultimately decreasing operational costs.    

As leaders in scalable optimization for big and growing businesses alike, Barcodes, Inc. is ready to assist you in navigating through these questions to create a tailored printing solution that matches your needs. Contact us today to see how you can begin your solution design for seamless deployment and maintenance. 

With different environments and users all under one roof, it is important to have a product that can tolerate the rigorous demands of material handling. Whether the best solution is mounting a device horizontally on the overhead guard leg or vertically off the overhead guard leg, Gamber-Johnson has a solution for every user’s unique needs.

Barcodes, Inc. is ready to assist with your next warehouse material handling solution. Contact us today for a free consultation. 

• Overhead Guard Mounts: Flat Profile: Extended – 7160-0368
• Overhead Guard Mounts: Flat Profile: Short – 7160-0585
• Overhead Guard Mounts: Vertical Bar: Standard – 7160-1156
• Overhead Guard Mounts: Vertical Bar: Tall – 7160-1156-01

• Guard Leg Mounts: Rectangular Dual Arm – 7160-0420
• Guard Leg Mounts: Rectangular Standard – 7160-0366
• Guard Leg Mounts: Tube Clamp – 7160-0561
• Guard Leg Mounts: Pole Mount with Plate – 7160-1356-01
• Guard Leg Mounts: Roll Formed – 7160-0814
• Guard Leg Mounts: Roll Formed, CLARK – 7160-1542

Saving time and improving warehouse efficiency is a top priority for businesses. The typical receiving process can take 20.75 minutes – but with Newcastle Systems mobile workstations you can cut that by 52% and save 520 hours per user per year!

How to Streamline Warehouse Receiving

How much wasted time and tasks could your warehouse cut out with a mobile workstation that moves with your workers?

• Walking from the receiving area to the computer to look up order details
• Waiting to print orders
• Walking back to the products
• Walking back to the computer to print labels
• And more

Instead, a Newcastle workstation with its own container computer, printer, barcode scanner, and power source can move to your receiving station and allow your workers to scan, inspect, print, and apply labels right on the spot.

Shop Newcastle Workstations

Mobilize your workstation to anywhere in the warehouse with Newcastle Systems. Durable and customizable, these stations have everything you need. Compact stations fit into narrow isles and smaller warehouses, and battery options can power your devices for an eight-hour shift.

Barcodes, Inc. carries a wide range of Newcastle Systems mobile workstations including the NB series, the PC Picking series, the RC Utility series, NB Slim series, and EcoCart series along with accessories, parts, and power packs.

When it comes to warehouse management, mobile technologies gives great accessibility to support items as it makes its way through the warehouse. Studies have shown that operations are greatly enhanced by mobile technology, where hand-held devices allow employees to include additional data and instructions greatly improving productivity and accuracy in the warehouse. From receiving, picking, locating, to shipping, it gives visibility as inventory and products can be tracked as it makes its way through the warehouse. Increase productivity and efficiency with the Honeywell ScanPal EDA51 and EDA60K mobile computer. Built on the Android platform, it offers the perfect combination for data input and increase productivity for inventory management and logistics workflows.

Features:

• Powerful future-ready platform Android 7.1 (Nougat) operating system
• Powerful scan engine to scan both 1D and 2D barcodes
• Sleek, modern and rugged design with IP64 seal against dust and water spray
• Dual- band Wi-fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.1 connectivity
• 4 Inch touchscreen and 30- key numeric keypad for data input
• Preloaded Honeywell Enterprise Client pack (Honeywell Enterprise Terminal Emulator, Browser, and Launcher) Choose from pre-licensed SKU or 60 day trial.

From the warehouse to retail and service businesses, increase productivity and fulfill omni-channel demands with the Honeywell ScanPal EDA51. Enable mobile workforce with technology that will help get more done in less time and offer better customer experience that helps your business get the edge you need to compete. Ideal for applications that supports retail, direct store delivery, pickup, and field service. Engineered for easy data capture with integrated scanner and 5 inch display where it allows plenty of information for your interaction. Workers can scan packages, document workflows, capture signatures upon delivery in one single device.

Features:

• Lightweight and pocketable design that is still rugged for tough service environments.
• Android 8.1 (Oreo) operating system
• Superior imager that can scan 1D and 2D barcodes
• Powerful 13-megapixel color camera to take pictures for proof of delivery
• Removable ion battery that can lasts 12 hours built for all day use
• IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, NFC, and WWAN Radio connectivity
• Optional scan handle and battery charger accessories to keep your devices running

Automate tasks, increase data collection accuracy, and visibility with
Honeywell EDA60K and EDA51 mobile computers. Contact Barcodes and find out how Honeywell mobile technologies can help you run an effective warehouse and boost productivity and communication on the go.

With the PTI, Produce Traceability Initiative, produce supply chains need to use an electronic traceability system to validate and trace products that are being delivered to each store. Find out how you can drive efficiency, value, and freshness with Zebra’s ZT400 Series.

Let’s follow a lemon from field to store.

1. Lemons are picked from field and packed into cases
2. Cases needs to be assigned a label to be note what location it came from the field
3. These cases are sent to a warehouse to be inspected for quality control
4. Repack into boxes that needs to be label with the pack, harvest, and best by dates
5. Boxes of lemons are stacked into a pallet labeled with a container code label
6. Container codes allow distributors to scan the barcode to find out the lot and GTIN code
7. After orders are placed for the produce, distributors can scan and print shipping labels to be delivered to each store.

From the field to packing in a warehouse, it is important to have the labels with the codes printed quick and precise. The ZT400 Series can meet the high label printing needs with ease and increase efficiency down a supply chain line.

Fast and reliable, the ZT410 (4 inch print width) where the ZT420 (6 inch) and both offers up to a high resolution of printing for any size labels.

Both Feature:

• Ethernet, USB, and Bluetooth with optional Wi-Fi addition
• Handles wide range of media
• Dual USB port for added flexibility
• Intuitive icon-based interface with an optional LCD screen to show any alerts
• Easy media and ribbon loading
• Rugged durability for demanding applications

It delivers advancements in print speed, connectivity options, management, and support tools that can drive efficiency, value, and savings.

Get your supply chain in compliance with PTI and Zebra’s ZT400! You can decrease downtime, mapping errors, and costly logistical mistakes! Contact us if you have any questions or would like to learn more about how the ZT400 can help you in your daily operations.

For the toughest environment, comes the Honeywell’s Granit 1980i (wired) and the 1981i (wireless) industrial full range scanners. The area- imaging scanners are capable of scanning both 1D and 2D barcodes from near and as far as 50ft away. Simple to use, the Granit scanners maximize operator productivity in the most challenging environments and will be able to pair the scanners with fork trucks equipped with vehicle mounted mobile computers to scan barcodes at an extended range.

Near and Far Distance Scanning Techniques (1D & 2D):

Near
Capable reading from 6 inches near barcodes. Hover over the barcode and center the red lightning box with laser aim to the right of the center of the barcode.

Far
Distance scanning up to 50ft, with laser scanner aim at the center of the barcode. (with laminated barcodes might have to tilt the scanner at an readable angle)

Features:

• Full Range Area Imaging of 1D & 2D barcodes
• Super Rugged IP65 Rating
• Multiple scanning configurations
• Wire or Wireless enable mobility
• Ease of Use- Intuitive User Feedback

Equip your team with the toughest scanner to maximize your team’s productivity and lower the overall cost of ownership. The 1980i & 1981i Granit scanners are great for manufacturing, transportation and logistics, warehouse and distribution, and outdoor logistics.

Contact our dedicated account managers on any questions in regards how to improve your daily operations with the Granit scanners and we will be happy to help.

Executive Summary
A warehouse robotics manufacturing company was in search of a user interface to complete and enhance their robots. A powerful barcode scanning solution with a strong and durable scan engine was required to improve processes. Additionally, it needed to be compatible with the iPad Mini due to their workers familiarity with the product and integration with their existing enterprise software.

Barcodes identified an optimal barcode scanning solution that not only streamlined processes but also increased the revenue stream for a robotics company’s clients.

The Business Challenge
The robots created by the robotics company are used at their customer’s facilities. A technologically advanced solution was required to allow warehouse associates the ability to interact directly with the robots for order picking, inventory control, and efficiency measures. They need a simple and lightweight solution to implement various warehouse management applications.

Solution
Barcodes recommended the Infinite Peripherals Infinea Tabâ„¢ M and case (CS-TAL) with 1D/2D barcode scanner, along with the Apple iPad Mini. This allowed mobile employees to convert the Apple iPad Mini into a powerful warehouse management and scanning solution to fulfill their operational needs. The Infinea Tabâ„¢ M has a 2D imager scan engine which reads the most widely used 1D and 2D barcodes that has made it the ideal solution for order picking and inventory control.

Benefits
Having implemented the solution, the warehouse robotics company has seen the benefits of using an iPad mini and powerful scanning solution in one. The intuitive user interface on the Infinea Tabâ„¢ M has led to increased productivity by the end users, which has allowed more orders to ship; thus, revenue to increase for their customers.

The warehouse robotics company has scaled widely once their robots were delivered and implemented at each of their customer’s site. Not only through word of mouth, but through various trade shows, the interest in the robots and the technology used within the robots has set the company on a path for tremendous growth with the help of Barcodes.

A Honeywell survey stated that on average companies lose over $400,000 every year in picking errors. In order to combat these errors and help improve accuracy and efficiency companies are looking more towards wearable technology.

Select warehouses and distribution centers are the perfect example to look at as they are seeing wearable mobile computers revolutionize the industry. Providing increased flexibility, operational improvement, improved productivity, and significant cost savings. With wearable computers users will be free from the constraints of using one hand to carry a scanner or mobile computer; instead users will have the flexibility to work hands-free while still accessing the data they need to complete the tasks at hand. A hands-free user will be able to accelerate picking, packing, and shipping operations.

Honeywell’s rugged Dolphin 75e Wearable has a large display with flexible touchscreen keypads. The accessories provide increased comfort and improved hygiene over conventional wearables. Combine it with the 8620 Ring scanner to get a truly hands-free experience that is guaranteed to help improve productivity in the workplace. With these lightweight and compact computers, users will have a wide range of motion. This allows users to complete tasks in less time without losing the valuable accuracy that is needed.

Dolphin 75e Wearable Features:

• Multi OS: Flexible support and migration of Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld or Android 4.4 KitKat, seamlessly upgrade later as business needs grow to Windows 10 or Android 5.0L
• 4.3 in large clear display with capacitive touchscreen provides outstanding readability and plenty of space for data and keypads.
• Increase productivity and throughput with an ergonomic ring scanner based on an industry-grade imager that provides high-performance scanning of linear and 2D barcodes.
• The watchband style armband improves comfort and eliminates hygiene concerns.
• The rubber watchband straps are comfortable, reduce sliding or rotating on the arm and don’t absorb perspiration.

Feel free to contact our dedicated account managers for any questions or a quote on your mobile computing needs.