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Barcodes are an excellent way of keeping track
of you inventory and locating items
We can find barcodes almost everywhere we look these days. They are how
we check out at the grocery store, how products get sent from shipping
departments, and how materials are delivered to the factory floor in a
timely manner. A whole new application for barcodes that is starting to
take off is as a tool for front office applications to improve
productivity.
Barcodes are an excellent way of keeping track of you inventory and
locating items, be they loafs of bread or freight cars. When you
purchase that loaf of bread at the grocery store the barcode tells the
store inventory system that that item is being removed from inventory.
It makes sense, therefore, that people would consider using barcodes to
track important documents in the front office. It is possible to assign
a specific barcode tracking number to each report or form that is
printed by the company. You can use just about any number in the
barcode, including invoice numbers, customer numbers, sales order
numbers, purchase order numbers, inventory control number, or other
document number. You can turn just about any combination of numbers or
characters into a barcode.
You will need to purchase an inexpensive barcode reader in order to use
the barcode system. You can connect barcode wands to your computer
keyboard or directly to your PC. All you need to do is wave the barcode
wand across the document and you can track it. The symbols on the
barcode are translated by the barcode reader into the original
characters that were used to create the barcode. This number can be
accepted by many of the software programs you probably already have, and
it will appear in the application just as if you had typed it into the
keyboard. Gone are the human errors that would naturally result from
having to enter the information by hand.
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