In terms of money, what have been the up front expenses and what have been the payoffs of implementing bar code technology?
The up front expenses are what everyone sees or thinks they see. The cost of the equipment can be anything from $200 for a scanner to plug into your existing computer terminals, to a fully portable hand held computer that costs $2,500. Printers can cost $1,500 to $2,500. But there are other subtle expenses like management planning and design time. And there will be software to integrate to your existing system. What is constantly overlooked is the cost of not using bar code. What are the real costs of errors and out of date inventory reports. This may be hard to set a dollar figure on, but one distributor put it this way. “I have been using bar code for about 18 months and I now ship 25% more volume without any additional people.
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