Track/Trace Solutions for the Logistics Supply Chain
Consumer satisfaction with the quality of your products is clearly important, but the service you provide before and after the sale is equally important to any business, but often overlooked as benefiting the bottom line. However, providing efficient tracking and tracing of shipped products enhances customer loyalty and your company image. Obviously, satisfied customers are a company’s greatest asset.
Track/Trace solutions including software and Automatic identification technologies such as barcoding and RFID are both reliable and effective in ensuring the efficient delivery of materials and components to you and to your customers.
According to Claes Fornell, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business and The American Customer Satisfaction Index, “As long as repeat business is important, and as long as customers have a chance to go somewhere else, employees must deliver high levels of satisfaction for a company to be successful.” In other words, satisfied customers often become repeat customers and one way to ensure satisfaction is to provide complete visibility from sale to delivery.
Simply stated, an efficient logistics supply chain accurately tracks and traces the delivered materials used to create finished products and then stores the inventory until picking, packing, shipping, and delivery of sold products are completed.
Ensuring RFID’s Bottomline Payoff
Whether a business leapt at the opportunity to become one of the first suppliers with RFID tagged products or now finds itself currently being mandated to employ the technology, the implementation costs and the potential rewards are the same.
To maximize the benefits of RFID, it is critical to view its capability to drive business process improvement, increase supply chain efficiency and ultimately improve bottom line results. From this perspective, the up front capital costs for hardware, engineering consulting costs, opportunity costs, ongoing cost of tags and, in a manual environment, labor associated with the RFID tagging of products are deemed a necessary investment.
Rather than merely RFID tagging products to satisfy the requirements of their largest customers, companies can move from seeing RFID deployment as just the cost of doing business to an opportunity to enhance productivity and profitability. Understanding the impact of data collection and tracking as well as data integration is essential to RFID optimization.
Tips: Sato CL4NX / CL6NX Series Cleaning Maintenance
Simple regular maintenance on your printer can be the key factor in getting the most out of your printer, printhead, and supplies.
The Sato CL4NX and CL6NX series of printers represents their next generation of thermal printers with advanced support for barcode symbologies, character sets and RFID encoding. A product of Sato’s global R&D network the NX Series incorporates value-added features in a world-class design to deliver a printing solution that goes beyond expectations.
Valuable Label Features that Solve Common Retail Problems
Most people don’t realize how many choices there are when it comes to designing a label or tag. Even the simplest of features can be cost-effective and can make a big impact in improving the overall retail store environment from back-office to customer experience. This white paper focuses on several features that can reduce shrink and improve customer satisfaction.
Shrink Management
To cut back on stolen merchandise, retailers are often required to implement expensive solutions like EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance) systems and trained security. However, there are less expense ways to deter theft.
SATO Retires the M84xxSe/S8408/S8412/S8424 Thermal Print Engines
SATO has announced the discontinuation of its M8460Se, M8485Se, and M8490Se industrial print engines and all of their related accessories.
Reason for Retirement: The NEW S84ex/S86ex series was released in November 2014 which has a superior feature set and is a compatible replacement for discontinued units.
Last Time Buy Order: Dec 30, 2015 – Estimated date based on availability depending on model.
Effective Immediately: M8465Se RH Standard and LH Opposite and M8459Se are out of stock and discontinued.
End of Service: December 30, 2020 – Spare parts and service will not be available after this date.
SATO will honor all warranties in place and maintain our service obligation by supporting and servicing discontinued printers through SATO America, as long as parts are available
Sato’s CL6e Series Printer End-of-Life
Sato has announced the discontinuation of the CL608e and CL612e industrial thermal printer and all related accessories. This retirement notice includes the discontinuation of the CL6e series printers and accessories. For a suitable replacement, the new CL6NX series is the perfect choice for even better performance while still using the same media the older printers used.
Reason for Retirement: The CL6NX series was released in April 2015 which has a superior feature set and is a compatible replacement for the CL6e.
Service and Warranty: Sat0 will honor all warranties in place and maintain our service obligation by supporting and servicing discontinued printers through Sato as long as parts are available.
For more information or assistance finding the right replacement industrial printer for your needs, contact us at Barcodes, Inc.
SATO’s CLNX Series: Industrial Printing Made Simple
SATO has designed a true plug and play printer with their new CLNX series. The CLNX series has been engineered to be simple to use and easy to assimilate with existing systems. The CLNX also is offered in two different size options, a 4 inch (CL4NX) and a 6 inch (CL6NX). With its multiple sizes, energy efficiency and coreless ribbon, the CLNX series may be the perfect label printer to easily plug into many different printer applications.
Key features of the new CLNX include:
- Accessible operations from its 3.5-inch color display and onboard video tutorials
- Unparalleled communication and emulation capabilities
- Simple maintenance with its tool free printhead and platens replacement
- Outstanding print quality consistent across a wide range and size of labels
- Superior rugged aluminum die-cast construction
- Equipped for global distribution with 30+ display languages and 40+ print character sets
SATO Introduces CL6NX Next-genertion 6-inch Industrial Thermal Label Printer
SATO announced today the launch of the new CL6NX, a 6-inch industrial thermal label printer designed for intuitive operation, easy integration and industrial strength durability. The CL6NX is ideal for manufacturing, warehousing, supply chain logistics, healthcare, retail, and is easily configurable and scalable for global deployments.
The NX Series represents SATO’s next generation of thermal printers with advanced support for barcode symbologies, character sets and communication interfaces. A product of SATO’s global research and development network, the NX Series incorporates value-added features in a world-class design to deliver a printing solution that goes beyond expectations.
“The CL6NX builds on the success of the CL4NX, which was a game-changer for both SATO and the industry. The NX Series’ advanced technology and innovative features redefine the standard for the next generation of industrial printers,” said Noriyasu Yamada, Chief Product Planning Officer at SATO. “Through the expansion of the NX Series, we are able to offer an even greater level of flexibility to our customers, minimize their total cost of ownership and boost efficiency to give them a competitive edge.”
Sato’s Label Gallery to NiceLabel Transition
The availability of Label Gallery software has been discontinued through SATO. As a benefit to their customers SATO will offer special upgrade options for those who purchased Label Gallery through SATO America or any of its reseller partner community.
Special Upgrade Offer for Existing Label Gallery Customers
All users who bought a Label Gallery license through SATO America or a SATO America Reseller Partner after July 1, 2014 and before February 2, 2015 are entitled to free NiceLabel upgrade that’s equivalent of the SATO Label Gallery edition. This offer is valid until September 1, 2015.
Label Features to Solve Common Retail Problems
Most people don’t realize how many choices there are when it comes to designing a label or tag. Even the simplest of features can be cost-effective and can make a big impact in improving the overall retail store environment from back-office to customer experience.This white paper focuses on several features that can reduce shrink and improve customer satisfaction.
Shrink Management
To cut back on stolen merchandise, retailers are often required to implement expensive solutions like EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance) systems and trained security. However, there are less expense ways to deter theft.
