Mobile Inventory Management is the grandfather of mobile computing. For more than twenty years, companies have utilized bar coding, wireless communication and mobile computers to receive, store, pick and ship items in a wide variety of businesses. New technologies, including converged voice and data enterprise digital assistants (EDA) and lightweight, powerful mobile computers, voice systems and RFID allow inventory management principles to be applied to a wide variety of new areas and environments.
Voice Enabled WMS
The benefits of using voice recognition for picking orders are well proven. Typically, companies experience 15%+ productivity gains than are generally attained over manual systems or even traditional hand held or lift mounted RF devices. It is also widely accepted that picking by voice virtually eliminates errors. What may be surprising to some people is that implementing voice technology does not necessarily mean buying a new WMS.
Proof of Delivery
Scanning off the truck at delivery closes the loop on the "perfect order". Electronic proof of delivery (POD) delivers the core business benefits of increased inventory accuracy, real-time availability of delivery information and the elimination of paperwork together with its associated re-keying back office costs. POD can also prove highly beneficial in managing the use and return of valuable re-usable inventory and fixed assets.
Cross Docking
Cross docking is a practice in logistics of unloading materials from an incoming trailer truck or rail car and loading these materials directly into outbound trucks, trailers, or rail cars, with little or no storage in between. Similar to cross docking is the practice of exchanging service equipment or inventory from one vehicle to another in the field. In each of these applications, the fast paced nature of the activity presents multiple opportunities to lose or miss ship products. Cross docking systems are typically designed to use bar code scanning to eliminate these types of errors.
Direct Store Delivery
Selling via a Direct Store Delivery (DSD) model presents a whole new variety of inventory management challenges. With the critical and often costly pressures experienced in distributing consumable products, inventory management in DSD is crucial. Mobile inventory management solutions allow direct store delivery companies to manage inventory and reduce shrink. With mobile inventory management, you’re able to track goods from delivery dispatch to onsite servicing to end-of-day route reconciliation.
Scout Features
- Multi-modal (scan plus voice warehouse management)
- Full enterprise inventory solutions – warehouse, delivery, transport, consignment
- Support for remote or unattended warehouses
Benefits
- Improve Productivity
- Enhance Inventory Efficiency
- Improve Customer Service
- Increase Inventory Accuracy
- Reduce Labor and Improve Productivity
- Share Information in the Supply Chain
Rugged PDA
Fork truck computer
Wearable computer
Voice activated computer
RFID
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