Use RFID to Lock Down Your Assets

Why is asset tracking so expensive? Asset tracking is not cheap. When tracking your physical assets, how long does it take to account for your physical inventory, input this data into your systems, and reconcile the differences? If you calculate the cost of this labor, which is usually done by higher-paid finance professionals, it can …

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Utilizing SAP for Store Room and Remote Location Inventory

Traditionally, inventory has always been done using paper and pen. In the past, an employee would correctly reflect transactions involving inventory or supplies by using paper and a clipboard to write down the material number (or item and or lot number) along with the work order or cost center to properly charge the material out …

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Bulk Up Your Company’s Offensive Line with Data Collection Equipment

Can you believe how quickly the year’s end is approaching?  When you take a look at your budget, you see that your money is tight, but you’ve kept a good handle on things.  However, you also notice that you are limping along in regards to your: (a) current software system, (b) current data collection equipment, (c) antiquated processes and …

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Can a Tablet Computer Replace a Forklift Computer?

Tablet computers are everywhere.  Nooks, ipads, and Kindle Fires are the “in” gadgets to have these days and are selling fast.  But can a tablet computer actually replace a forklift computer or terminal within a warehouse distribution center?  Since tablets have larger screens, can run windows operating systems, and can be taken off the forklift to use …

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Finishing Touches–Making Integrated Software Solutions User-Friendly

Well, this is the last in a series of analogies between my kitchen project and IT.  It has been a stretch at times, both figuratively and labor-wise, but I can see the light. I am so close to completing the kitchen; I just have to grout the backsplash and install the handles.  I am physically …

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DIY or Swallow your Pride…Efficient Workflow Processes

OK, I’ll be the first to admit that I am a hard head when it comes to letting others do the work that I can do.  Maybe it’s an ego thing, male thing, who knows, but why pay someone if you can do the work yourself?  Am I right?  When it comes to establishing organized …

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