Bar Coding
BAR CODING
Bar codes have been around for thirty years, and they're more important than ever in scanning and tracking inventory, orders, and shipments in warehouse facilities. The articles in this section provide expert advice on how to use this technology and deploy it along with new developments such as radio frequency and wireless.
Why Merchants Should Move to Intelligent Mail Barcode Full Service
J. Jeffery Peoples, CEO of postal software provider Window Book, wants all merchants to adopt the Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB) Full Service plan because he says it’s necessary to receive the best postage rates....
How Barcode Use Can Help Reduce Warehouse Costs
While barcodes have been in use for many years in shipping and manifesting systems, many warehouses still don't fully use this technology. That's a shame, because barcodes help you reduce costs and increase control of your operation....
Golden Age of Fulfillment
DIRECT-TO-CUSTOMER FULFILLMENT has come a long way in the last decade. Or has it? Some of the clearest clues to the history of the industry lie in the...
Shelf-Involved
Is it true that as Wal-Mart goes, so go all retailers? As the largest retailer in the United States indeed, as the country's largest corporation its influence...
Good Vibrations
The old adage You get what you pay for is apt in the case of radio frequency identification technology. Although it isn't cheap, RFID has tremendous potential...
DIS-connected
Regardless of how organized you attempt to be, it can still feel as though your inventory moves from one black hole to another because of the difficulty...
TraceElements
But there may be no need to pay such close attention THE POSSIBILITIES are intriguing. Wonder where the merchandise from the factory in China is as it...
Working Gear: Catalog/Order Management Software Review 2002
Just as direct-to-customer software has become a mature product, the recession is causing slower sales, fewer installations, and layoffs and reorganizations...
Working Gear
Relay Race R.R. Donnelley Logistics and the USPS have teamed up to offer consumers the ability to track their packages from the merchant's fulfillment...
It's in There
Dream on, about the warehouse infrastructure that you'd love to have but can't afford, about the new systems that you've been told will save you money...
Rapid Transit
These speedy cost-savers may just be the ticket to race through picking tasks PTL units cost about $200 per light position, and are most often used for...
FREEZE FRAME
Nothing much may be a perfectly fine answer to give to an old friend who calls to ask whassup. But if that's how you describe what's going on in your...
