Online Tracking Using QR code To Update Status

Rather than going into forms to update status, one can use QR codes to update delivery, or any supply chain status automatically. For example, Google docs allow you to construct a url to automatically submit forms. So, from an excel of orders given to a courier or delivery company, you can create QR codes using Google Chart APIs to update status through an URL. What the courier or the delivery guys have to do is to scan the QR code to reflect the updated delivery status.Below are two statuses of the same order that you only need to read from your QR code reader app (Redlaser, QR Code reader, etc...). Scan it, and it will automatically update the status through an URL.

Order 1234, Status: Not_Delivered                       


Order 1234, Status: Delivered

                                                          

To allow anyone to query latest order status, we just have to create a simple website that reads the order and append it to the URL that uses Google Visualizer API. It acts like an SQL query.

I have created www.supplychaintracking.appspot.com for you to do just that. Just key in your order number, press the submit button and hey! See your latest order status!