Improving Your Warehousing Efficiency with
Long-Range Barcode Scanning Best Solution By Dane Titsworth
Today’s
customers want to receive their goods and shipments faster than ever before,
which calls for ever-greater speed and efficiency in warehousing. Businesses
need to identify, move, and track products and shipments as quickly as
possible, without sacrificing accuracy or quality of service. This is one area
where a surprisingly simple upgrade can make a huge difference, and it can be
found in your barcode scanners.
Most barcode
scanners
suffer from a built-in limitation that can slow down your workforce and get in
the way of better productivity and efficiency. Standard barcode scanners are
only equipped to provide short-range barcode scanning, so workers often need to
be within inches of a barcode label in order to scan it. The limitation of
conventional barcode scanners becomes a time-consuming problem when workers
have to get out of forklifts to scan pallets, take extra time and steps to get
within range of a barcode, or find the right angle to scan. It’s especially a
problem if a worker can’t reach inventory on high shelves or other places that
aren’t within immediate reach of the scanner. The need to improve efficiency
makes a long-range barcode scanner a far better alternative. Long-range
scanners can capture a barcode accurately from as far as 70 feet away, even
under layers of shrink-wrap. They also feature omnidirectional scanning, which
means you don’t have to line up the scanner and the barcode perfectly. You can scan
barcodes from
different directions and angles, which dramatically speeds up scanning and
ensures a first-time capture.
The
result is less effort and less time spent scanning and getting within range.
This also reduces the overall cost of your operations while allowing workers to
move goods and shipments faster. Importantly, long-range barcode
scanners, also
provide continuous, reliable performance, regardless of your operating
environment. Even in dimly lit working environments, their accuracy and
precision are unaffected, and they can also scan sequentially, which means a
worker can hold down the trigger and identify multiple items on the go. This
also means workers no longer have to pace up and down the warehouse floor to
scan barcodes. In vertically structured warehouses, long-range barcode
scanners are absolutely critical. By combining long-range and omnidirectional
barcode scanning, they make it easy for workers to scan inventory and assets
stored on high shelves that would not be accessible to a conventional,
short-range barcode scanner.
N
investment in long-range barcode scanners is a dual-purpose
investment that delivers short-range barcode scanning as well. Long-range
scanners also offer excellent scanning capability at short range so they can be
used effectively across a range of distances—from an item inches away, to one
on the highest shelf in your warehouse. Sophisticated long-range scanners
provide operational capacity at both short and long range, which eliminates the
need to buy multiple devices.
At
Idezi, we recommend long-range barcode scanners from our partners at Zebra
Technologies, the global leaders in barcoding,
RFID, and
barcode printing solutions. Zebra’s LS3408-ER rugged barcode scanner is a
corded, handheld scanner that captures 1D barcodes as far away as 45 feet or as close as 0.25 inches. The new
long-range barcode scanner in Zebra’s 3600 Ultra-Rugged Series provides
long-range barcode scanning from 70 feet, and it includes a
wireless option with Bluetooth Class LE connectivity.
Contact
us now to learn more about these long-range scanners and get a free
consultation for your scanning needs. Visit us at www.idezi.com ,
call us at 615-377-8849, or
email info@idezi.com.
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