| Logistics, asset management and inventory control are | | | | own place of business. As soon as items arrive, |
| so important to any business. Whether you operate a | | | | create their unique barcode markings and apply the |
| point of sale business, a shipping center, or any | | | | printed label to the item. Scan the item into the |
| business that ships or receives supplies or products, it | | | | computer system. This will add to your inventory count |
| is difficult to manually keep track of what is coming | | | | of that particular asset. When the item is sold, shipped |
| and going. Bar codes and automation save time, | | | | or removed from inventory through use or another |
| money and lost assets. This method, once fully | | | | method, scan the barcode again and your asset count |
| implemented, can save thousands or even millions of | | | | will be reduced. This allows you to know, up to the |
| dollars over a short period of time. | | | | minute, exactly how much inventory you have on hand |
| You may think it will cost a bundle of money to | | | | of each item and the actual value of your total |
| implement a barcode system to control and track | | | | inventory. |
| assets. This is not true. A barcode label printer is quite | | | | The use of a label printer for this purpose can also |
| affordable, durable and long lasting. Most businesses | | | | identify inventory reduction that is the result of |
| only require a few of these devices to effectively | | | | shrinkage. Shrinkage is a term that refers to inventory |
| manage assets. The very small investment pays for | | | | that disappears through theft, personal use, or other |
| itself almost immediately. | | | | unethical means. You may think you have trustworthy |
| The label printer produces printouts that are durable | | | | employees only to learn that you are losing a lot of |
| and will not smear or smudge so they can easily be | | | | money because someone is stealing inventory and |
| read by a barcode reader. Most even have memory | | | | selling it on the side. |
| functions to store the most frequently printed label | | | | Why wonder what you have on hand to sell or use in |
| information. Also, an entire database of inventory and | | | | your business enterprise? Why manually count |
| the associated barcodes can be downloaded from a | | | | inventory, consuming time and therefore money? |
| computer into the label maker for easy printing of | | | | Know in an instant how many widgets are in the |
| labels for each and every item in your inventory. | | | | widget inventory and the exact value of your widget |
| The Brother International TP-1650 P-Touch Electronic | | | | inventory. It' so simple and easy when you implement a |
| Labeling System is one example of a label printer with | | | | plan where every employee uses a label printer to |
| the capabilities you need to implement automated | | | | create barcodes and labels to mark the items as they |
| inventory control, barcode- tracked logistics or asset | | | | come into inventory and as they leave your asset |
| management into your business. It quickly creates | | | | stock. |
| automatically sized labels that can include graphics and | | | | A label printer system that allows you to dynamically |
| can even sequentially number the codes. | | | | track materials and sales can make a huge difference |
| Even the aerospace industry is using automated | | | | in how you do business. Work smarter rather than |
| logistics functions using barcode labels created by the | | | | harder and raise the bottom line by saving time and |
| same type of label printer that you can use at your | | | | money. |