| Business solutions using barcode technologies are | | | | vehicles, equipment, etc. without them stopping to be |
| expanding and improving daily. Several solutions are | | | | assessed. These include scanners that are located to |
| more than a decade into their life cycle and are well | | | | read barcode information as a forklift loaded with |
| proven in terms of benefit to businesses of all sizes, | | | | pallets passes by. Those that frequently travel toll |
| fortune 500 or a small family owned business. | | | | roads are well aware of this application. There is |
| Following are few of those well proven solutions and a | | | | growing use of reading a barcode affixed to the |
| summary description of how they are applied. | | | | window of a car speeding by the toll booth rather than |
| | | | stopping to pay. The payer is billed on a monthly basis |
| 1. Inventory Control - A well ran warehouse must | | | | for road usage. |
| receive, manage and ship inventory efficiently to | | | | 4. End of Year Inventory - Compiling all inventory |
| survive. As the number of items stored and the size of | | | | information for end of year tax assessment is an |
| the physical footprint of the warehouse increases, the | | | | enormous job using any technologies. The barcode |
| complexity of the task increases. Barcode | | | | technologies have brought this application to a point |
| technologies have become the foundation of managing | | | | that now end of year inventory is a real time |
| today's growing warehouse and logistical enterprises. | | | | assessment of existing inventory combined with |
| 2. Work In Progress - Manufacturing plants are running | | | | detailed records of pass through during the tax period. |
| on lower margins than ever. Decreasing loss and | | | | 5. Point of Sale Applications - Widely used in retail |
| waste of materials and components used in | | | | applications, point of sale, has consolidated and made |
| manufacturing processes is a basic requirement for | | | | more efficient what used to be several different |
| competing in our growing global economy. Use of | | | | operations including inventory, pricing, tracking sales and |
| barcode technologies allow for effective and cost | | | | costs, state and local taxes and more. With the |
| efficient tracking of raw materials and provide precise | | | | competitive pricing for point of sale packages or |
| management information for job costing and | | | | bundles, small business has enjoyed huge productivity |
| establishing competitive pricing. | | | | gains.The above are just a sample of the growing |
| 3. Transportation and Moving Target Applications - | | | | number of applications for barcode technologies. |
| These applications allow tracking of packages, pallets, | | | | |