What Is A Barcode Inventory System?
February 15, 2018 at 8:57 AM
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Daniel Phillips
If you run a business that sells inventory, it is probably not news to you that there are a lot of different methods available for keeping track of your stock and notifying you of when you need more of something. This is especially true for businesses that sell product from multiple different places, such as a number of online webstores. One of these types of software is the barcode inventory system. Here is some information on this type of inventory tracking method.
Generally, your packet will come with hardware as well as software. The hardware includes barcode printers and scanners, and the software will be the computer program used to compile and access the data picked up by the scans. It is important to make sure that you are getting compatible hardware and software if you do not get a bundle. It should be relatively easy to find out what kinds of systems are compatible and what aren’t.
The process is relatively simple. You can create your own barcodes for items and print them out, allowing you to easily pick up on information about an item just by scanning it. The barcode inventory system can read 1D barcodes, which are the ones that you are probably most familiar with. These barcodes are generally the series of vertical black lines. However, there are some more sophisticated scanners that can even read 2D codes, such as what you find in QR scanners. These 2D barcodes can generally put a lot more information in them, so they are favored among some suppliers.
When choosing your products, there are a few options. Some of them simply provide information through the codes you create. However, there are others that can also track inventory, ship and receive and manage orders. Numbercruncher can help you with a barcode inventory system that does a lot of the work automatically.