Wondering if you can use your smartphone as bar code scanners in warehouse? After all, warehouse management systems is all about associating location bar code with product/carton/pallet bar code. Now, do we need ruggardized, industrial grade scanners and software? Maybe yes, but maybe not, depending on scale of operations and product one is handling.
Try Kinoni or Tapforms.
Kinoni is available in all smartphone platforms and connect via wifi to a desktop or laptop. I should try how it works on 3G.
Tapforms is very interesting too as it allows one to save bar code scans into local smartphone memory for sync-ing later.
Of course, there are refinements like autoline feed capabilities you can use with Kinoni. For example, you can to receive my scanning two bar codes - product/carton/pallet bar code and location bar code, whereas for picking, you want to be directly to pick and scan the product/carton/pallet bar code to deduct inventory.
Best of all, these 2 apps are free! So this option is at least worth a look for most small and medium sized enterprises.
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