For manufacturers and distributors alike, the warehouse is a critical hub of the business. Everything from raw materials for manufacturing to product ready to be shipped passes through this central depot. For this reason, controlling costs, increasing efficiency, and improving quality control in the warehouse is one of the best ways to improve the bottom line for your business.
How does adding riteSCAN to your warehouse management process help you reach your profit goal?
riteSCAN Saves You Money in the Inventory Management Arena
SYSPRO provides an array of excellent inventory control features designed to avoid out-of-stock allocations, negative inventory, carrying too much stock on hand, and more. As feature rich as SYSPRO is, the data in SYSPRO is only as good as it is accurate. Important information about your stock on hand, picked sales orders, purchase order receipts, or job issues and receipts is probably sitting on a clipboard waiting to be keyed in to SYSPRO. Even for the most diligent paper-based processes, too much time and human resources are spent keeping SYSPRO up to date. Even with the efforts of a well coordinated team, accuracy is difficult to achieve and maintain.
Mobile devices running riteSCAN placed in the hands of your warehouse staff allows you to track materials as they move in, through, and out of the warehouse. This increased real-time visibility provides a truly accurate view of your inventory levels in SYSPRO and helps avoid costly over-stocking, out-of-stocks with product and material, and unnecessary space utilization. With riteSCAN, achieving and maintaining accurate inventory is a reality because it integrates seamlessly with SYSPRO. It's like having an easy to use "point and scan" SYSPRO client in the hands of the people on the warehouse floor. With riteSCAN, the software travels to the material instead of a paper trail finding its way to SYSPRO. Writing down notes, filling out forms, and keying data is replaced with scanning barcodes. Printing and posting inventory levels is replaced with real-time inventory queries right from the mobile device. riteSCAN saves money managing inventory because it takes less time and fewer people to keep your warehouse data up to date and more accurate than ever.
riteSCAN Improves Warehouse Worker Efficiencies
Efficient workers will get more done in less time. Companies benefit when fewer staff are needed to do the job and staff turnover is reduced. With improved efficiency, existing staff can manage greater business volume, saving the expense of hiring and training new workers. Fewer staff also means buying and maintaining less warehouse equipment such as forklifts, carts, electronic equipment, and so on. All these savings can once again positively affect the bottom line. When workers become more efficient the company benefits and one key to workers becoming more efficient is to utilize technology. The right application of technology can empower workers by providing them with accurate information faster and tools that make it much easier to do things right.
Unfortunately for the people using software, so many user interfaces are designed by engineers for engineers. The riteSCAN user interface was developed with a different concept. In riteSCAN "the surface really is depth". That simply means a great deal of emphasis has been placed on making riteSCAN the easiest product to use in the market today. Built with the warehouse and the warehouse worker in mind, each riteSCAN screen is simple, elegantly designed to its specific purpose, and very easy to read. Nearly every task in riteSCAN is completed on a single, easy to read and understand screen. The screen fonts are larger, buttons are made for fingers not just a stylus, and nearly every screen can be controlled by simply pulling the trigger and scanning a barcode. These features ensure that your workers will be comfortable using riteSCAN and that will make them more productive employees.
riteSCAN Increases Customer Satisfaction
Inaccurate data about your warehouse leads to mistakes and these mistakes can impact your customers. When the wrong product is picked and shipped, you end up paying the cost of freight to return the product and next-day air freight to send the right product. You also need to make all of the necessary corrections to invoices, update stock-on-hand, etc. Finally, on top of all that there is the expense of smoothing things over with the customer. In today's world of just-in-time-inventory, customers really do demand that shipments are accurate.
Shipping the right product often involves doing several things right in the warehouse. From receiving and put-away to picking orders and everything in between, riteSCAN provides a way to use the powerful features of SYSPRO as part of your every day operations right on the warehouse floor. It is easier for a warehouse worker to pick the right product for an order when, after scanning a product barcode, riteSCAN informs the worker that this item is not on the sales order. In this example, using riteSCAN, the worker can find the correct stock item before shipment instead of you spending money to make things right after shipment.
riteSCAN eliminates ERP keying
Sooner or later, the paper-based inventory information you are collecting today has to reach someone who will key that data in to SYSPRO. Inventory movements, stock takes, sales order picks, and purchase order receiving require a keying exercise in SYSPRO. The more people involved in handling the data, the greater the chance for errors. These errors are costly to your company because it impacts so many different areas. These errors are costly to fix as well.
Imagine that this keying and re-keying does not happen at all. With riteSCAN, clip boards and keystrokes from several employees are replaced with a barcode scan from the warehouse worker that instantly updates SYSPRO in true real-time. This means that the instant data is scanned and sent with riteSCAN, SYSPRO is updated without error.
riteSCAN Pays For Itself
Whether you save money through efficient inventory management, increased warehouse worker efficiency, increased customer satisfaction, or by eliminating needless and error-prone ERP keying, a riteSCAN implementation really does pay for itself in a matter of months.