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NEW EFFICIENCIES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
ENABLING VISIBILITY Manufacturers Meet End User Demand for Added Mobility f the developments and changes that occurred in the warean all-encompassing, “turnkey” solution. “Most companies we work housing/distribution vertical are any indication of what lies with want to utilize hybrid technologies such as combining barcode ahead for 2008, then it would be safe to say that visibility and RFID and/or utilize document imaging and RFID, or a combihas been a key enabler as manufacturing companies connation of all three,” he says. “Another big request is to utilize more tinually pursue their quest for the responsive supply chain – both Wi-Fi and less cable and fiber. We have worked with several cominside and outside of the four panies on both the software and walls of the warehouse. hardware side to accomplish this According to Aberdeen requirement, and the benefits are Group, achieving supply chain really helping end users reduce responsiveness through up-front capital.” improved visibility and agility MONITORING was key theme in supply chain OPERATIONS execution in 2007. Of these AVTECH Software, based in themes, Aberdeen reported, in Newport, R.I., aims to “educate its August 2007 report, “High floor managers on the wareOctane Warehouses – How Top house operations side on the valCompanies Use Capabilities ues of environment monitoring,” Like Labor Management, according to Michael Sigourney, Slotting and Speech-Based Warehousing,” that companies 5SATO’s GLe & CLe Series barcode printers are the company’s senior product utilizing technologies such as designed to meet RFID and AIDC needs within a specialist. “Warehouse managers have to look at environmental Warehouse Management Software warehouse environment. conditions such as temperature, (WMS) are beginning to deploy it environment, humidity, sound, power and light…all of that beyond the basic processes of basic actions, such as receiving, affects the ability to move and protect (or not) those products,” put-away and shipping, and are instead implementing “high-perSigourney says. formance” capabilities in the warehouse. The 20-year old company has been providing two models of its Companies are also looking to take things a step further Room Alert™ Signal Towers through the reseller channel for the last through other technologies such as added mobility, data colleccouple of months. AVTECH’s Room Alert™ Signal Tower (Audio) tion and RFID. According to Venture Development Corp. applications outside the consumer packaged goods (CPG) model provides real-time event alerting with signal lights, audio alarm, temperature and sensor monitoring; the company also mansupply-chain management accounted for more than one-third of ufactures a second less-expensive model without audio monitoring the total RFID printer/encoder market in 2006 and are expected capabilities. According to Sigourney, both towers provide warehouse to experience growth in excess of 2011. managers with peace of mind, knowing that they will be alerted only MEETING DEMANDS if a physical security issue occurs, such as break-ins, but will also One company that will undoubtedly be able to work to meet this protect against other disasters such as flooding or a change in a facilP is ity area where temperature-sensitive products are stored. “When a demand for the end user community in the warehousing vertical SATO America, the Charlotte, N.C.-based company, known as problem starts, Room Alert™ provides the ability to eliminate that inventor of the world’s first electronic thermal transfer barcode printproblem from becoming a disaster,” Sigourney says. er, is currently introducing a new WMS software package of its own Room Alert™ also includes its PageR Enterprise software for netcalled Label & Track. The package has been deployed at several Tierwork-wide monitoring and advanced alerting. This also includes a 1 European companies, and discussions are currently under way to Web browser interface for logging sensor data/status, graphing and bring the package to North America, according to Mike Beedles, alerting. Sigourney also notes that users can utilize Room Alert™ so director, Integration Solutions Division, SATO America. “Label & that different sensors trigger different colored lights, so that they can Track is a fully automated product labeling and tracking solution be detected from as far as 100 yards away. “In a noisy environment that has been developed specifically for the manufacturing and (such as warehouses) this becomes important,” he says. “We have a logistics environments,” Beedles says. variety of different-colored LED lights that are so bright, the lenses He also notes that a theme he sees among end users is the idea of are designed to emulate a lighthouse lens. This gives (warehouse)
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SOLUTIONS FOR EVERY SUPPLY CHAIN APPLICATION! Datalogic Scanning has long been a pioneer in cordless handheld technology offering the broadest line of cordless scanners available today. You asked for it; we designed it with you in mind! The new
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• 2D mega-pixel sensor for omni-directional reading of 1D, stacked, and 2D barcodes. Outstanding characteristics including ruggedness, durability, ability to withstand extreme environmental conditions, with additional optics and interfaces make this new product suitable for any application in the supply chain market. There is now a PowerScan handheld reader for any supply chain environment. Great performance is not enough; operator comfort is essential in any scanintensive application; the PowerScan 8000 delivers unsurpassed ease-of-use with its improved ergonomically designed handle and well-balanced weight. For unmatched feedback in noisy environments, and superior good read feedback from any position, the high-performance Datalogic 3GL™ Technology (Three Green Lights) incorporates “GreenSpot™” Technology as well as “Double Good-Read LED™” Technology. The 3GL Technology is a distinctive characteristic of all PowerScan 8000 industrial handheld readers, one of the latest innovations in handheld reader technology by Datalogic.
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“Now customers can take advantage of the very best technology the industry has to offer,” said Pietro Todescato, General Manager of Handheld Readers for Datalogic Scanning. “The new PowerScan series synthesizes and further enhances ten years of design, technology, and experience based upon the PowerScan, Dragon™ and Lynx™ handheld readers.”
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DESIGNED FOR DURABILITY, HIGHSPEED AND SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE AT ENTRY-LEVEL PRICES Designed with every start-up and small company budget in mind, the new SATO LM4e Series printers include standard features usually reserved for higher priced printers, making them ideal for any sized company. The new SATO LM4e Series printers are perfect for manufacturing, freight forwarding, retail, and life science applications, and for specific applications within the logistics, distribution, pharmaceutical and health care, retail, transportation, apparel, automotive and military/DoD industries. Ideal applications include designing and generating labels for shipping, compliance, specimens, pharmacy items, product ID and cross dock. “We talked to our customers and determined that many of them needed a durable, high-speed, thermal barcode printer that wouldn’t break their budgets,” said Gary Krause, director of marketing at SATO America. “The result is SATO’s new LM4e Series, industrial thermal printers at entry-level prices. Understanding that many printing applications do not require all of the “bells and whistles” that are included and increase the price of most thermal barcode printers, we developed the LM4e Series to include the features most needed at a tremendous cost/performance value.” Featuring an all metal chassis, 4.1 inches print width, linear and 2-D symbologies, 8.6 inches OD label roll capacity, 6 inches per second (ips) print speed, 203 dpi (dots per inch) or 305 dpi models, and Quick, Load & Go consumable design — all at entry-level pricing. “The new LM4e Series once again demonstrates SATO’s leadership position in designing thermal, barcode printers that serve our customers’ specific requirements,” added Robert Linse, president of SATO America. “We firmly believe that our customer-centric approach to product development best serves the needs of both our customers and value-added resellers.”
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