Handheld scanners are predominantly used in production lines but are also useful in the office.
They can speed up the transition of a status for an order.
There is 2 areas where handheld scanners can be utilised, they are Job-tracking and Dispatch
Scenario 1 - Dispatch
Office manager Prints out all the jobs, checks their locations and sorts them accordingly, scans the jobs to change the status from unconfirmed to Date confirmed.
The jobs for the day are then allocated to the Production team
Scenario 2 - Job Tracking
Production manager receives or prints out all the jobsheet's for the day, before sending the jobsheets out to the production line, the production manager would scan all the sheets and change the Status to “Production commenced”.
Scenario 3 - Job Tracking
People in the warehouse receive a job they scan the paperwork to say that the job is at their station, once completed they scan it out.
Scenario 4 - Dispatch
The product has been completed and the warehouse are ready to send it, Dispatcher has allocated the jobs to an installer, the installer would check the products against the run sheet and scan all the jobs into the van/truck
Considerations
The main consideration that you need to take when buying a hand scanner is to ensure that it can read Interleave 2 of 5 also known as I2of5, this is a programming language for the type of barcode.
Next
Once you have the hand scanner feel free to visit the following pages for more information in BUZ
Zebra Programming and Label Format