Integration of scanners and RFID for warehousing and inventory management

Option 1) Call SAP or another big-name ERP. Hand over a first check for $500k. Pay their consultants $2k/day (or was it $3k?). Wait 2 years.

Option 2) Call your barcode scanner reseller. Load up on their hardware. Get their "professional services" or your local web developers to cobble up a solution for your company. Suffer for the next 5 years.

Option 3) Call a company who understands your processes and integration. With a proven track record and low overhead. Get measurable business benefits within a few months. Grow your system as you get comfortable.

Atlantic Decisions, Inc. grew a one warehouse, 500 products, 3 trucks a day warehousing system into a nationwide warehousing, inventory management and procurement system for the second largest bank in the world: Citigroup. Millions of dollars are now saved monthly, with a system running around the clock without failures.

The secret? Start small, spend the time to understand business requirements, re-use and integrate existing systems and processes. In other words, focus on the essential. Barcodes, scanners and label printers are only as good as the software they depend on. Selecting and implementing the hardware may be the exiting part ("would you like a yellow gun trigger with that scanner, sir?") but the priority must remain on the skills on the team designing the software.

Atlantic Decisions has the deep experience in back-office software and user experiences (from browsers to handheld devices). As an independent consulting and custom software development firm, we won't push any hardware or third-party software on you... because we don't sell any.