We did similar things with inventory back between 84 - 88 using a portable bar code reader (can't remember the name anymore) What you are doing is not rocket science
My question to you would be the Audit Trail? As for the initial paper starting point. What about the salesman that is off the grid and writes up the order on one of the "tops" forms? Better yet, what about the salesman that enters the order on your tablet, and when he gets back to the office, the order somehow disappeared? What about the component inventory that you receive to build your products, or the finished goods that you buy from another vendor? They will have a BOL and other paperwork attached. What will you do with those? I'm not saying you are on the wrong track. I'm just saying that if you don't maintain that audit trail, some ??????? like me will ream you a new one when something goes wrong, and as we all know, something does eventually go wrong. -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:52 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] Also looking at the termination of the PC and how will we be poised as this happens On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013, at 04:44 PM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > > > > My theory is this is not happening. > > 100% correct, in the world of business and the office anyway. What's > happening is that people are increasingly using tablets and > smartphones for the sort of casual use that laptops and netbooks used > to be used for, both at home, and to a lesser extent the office. > Checking email, pissing around on the internet and social media, playing games. > > Anything that involves any amount of text entry will continue to > happen the way it happens now, with a mouse and keyboard. > -------------------- > Yeah right. I have a stack of paperwork that use to be all orders filled, packed on trucks and shipped. Currently putting a plan together for second half of 2013 to use smartphone to scan barcodes on picked items and tag them to the proper order that was generated for today. All of this data will be pre entered for the BOL instead of someone actually sitting down and keying that crap. That same data is then required to produce a Certification report that is attached to our BOL for most of our customers. This is just ONE aspect of changing how you process a flow required in your business. My guess is that you will have similar needs that no longer need that initial paper starting point. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
