Barcodes labels are used worldwide to keep track of stock. Businesses use barcode labels in warehouses, storage depots and also use them to monitor the transfer of goods into and out of both these facilities. By using barcodes as a way to identify goods, a business can track their goods whilst in transit or even whilst in stock at their own facilities.
Keeping track of large parcels can be quite easy due to their bulky size and the ability to individually label each item. However, when a company has thousands of small items to keep in stock or ship, tracking becomes very difficult indeed – unless you use barcode technology.
Barcode labels can be attached to just about any item possible from multiple shrink wrapped pallets, to small boxes of paper clips. And the information held about each and every one of these items can be stored on a database. Information about these items can thus be changed or amended as necessary and complete itinerary visibility can be obtained.
Barcoding items doesn’t just increase an items visibility within the supply chain either, when you use barcodes you can save a huge amount of time otherwise spent manually checking figures and hence turn your business into an efficient operation.