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Are Bar Codes Right for Your Company?

It is generally accepted that inventory management is an essential part of manufacturing. One of the vital tools in effective inventory management are bar codes. This tracking tool can help manage inventory, workflow, and regulatory requirements. There are several benefits of bar codes. These advantages include lower workload, alerts on production slowdowns or low inventory, and workflow improvement.

With the implementation bar codes, you lower the amount of time you need to spend on inventory tracking. Automated inventory tracking software employs bar codes to organize the number of parts that can pass through the production process in each period.

Using spreadsheets or a paper method to manually track inventory will generally result in more errors and slow the process when compared to an automatic alert system. By utilizing a bar code automated inventory tracking system, you can establish specific alerts that monitor inventory by the scanning of bar codes.

The flexibility of bar codes allows them to be applied to any part of inventory tracking in the workflow process. With an automated inventory tracking system in place, new employees will be able to learn to use and track inventory in the workflow more quickly and easily. This system reduces the chance for processing error and the lost time and money to correct the issue.

An automated inventory tracking software system helps to prevent the stressful and costly situations that manual inventory tracking management can cause.  Automated inventory tracking systems with bar code integration, lets manufacturers plan efficiently, improve predictably, lower labor costs, and significantly lower the errors that result from manual management.

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