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Elevate your expectations: the Zebra ZD421 barcode label printer is an delivers the features, flexibility, reliability and security you need.

Building on the legacy of Zebra’s popular GK Series, ZD421 printers add even more capabilities and security measures. The ZD421 offers new, advanced features, including a more intuitive user interface, powerful architecture and field-upgradeable wireless kit. Available in direct thermal, thermal transfer, healthcare and cartridge models, the ZD421 meets a wide variety of application requirements. 

Designed to handle advancing technology, the ZD421 is 30% more powerful than the ZD420 Series and 700% more than the GK Series. With your ZD421, you can run more tasks, perform more operations simultaneously, maintain security, and be ready for whatever is next.

Barcodes, Inc. are committed to support a variety of industrial business needs and offer services, such as:

• Device Repair: depot and on-site repair services for all of your devices 
• Staging, kitting, and configuration: customized deployment services for your business 
• TrueSupport: managed, professional, software, and consulting services
• Printing supplies: largest supplier of labels, ribbon, and printheads

Meet the printer that was inspired by people just like you. 

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With outstanding functionality and features at an exceptional value, Zebra delivers high performance barcode label printers for industrial businesses. Contact us today to see how you can bring a new level of printing to your growing business.

Workforce Connect Webinar

Presented by:

McLeod Williamson – Intelligent Edge Solutions Sales, Zebra Technologies

Steve Beno – Director of Healthcare and Field Sales, Barcodes, Inc.

The healthcare workplace is disconnected and inefficient with gaps in communication, teams and data which keep the frontline buried at their desk. But systems and processes don’t need to operate in this way. Zebra Technologies‘ Workforce Connect (WFC) provides answers at healthcare workers’ fingertips, immediate reach of coworkers, and the ability to instantly see and locate staff and devices.

If your workers use multiple devices to reach the data and people they need throughout the day, Workforce Connect is your answer for streamlined processes.

You’ll leave with knowledge on:

• Workplace technology challenges for healthcare workers
• An overview of WFC and how it solves communication pain points to increase productivity
• Use cases within healthcare

Contact us with any questions regarding Zebra Workforce Connect.

Mobile Device Management Webinar Presented By:

Tim Tassone – Principal Solutions Architect, Barcodes Group

Unmanaged mobile devices are a huge security risk. Mobile Device Management can control remote access to highly sensitive data, provide user authentication and even offer remote data wiping of devices if they become lost or stolen. Whether you are a small, medium or large enterprise, this webinar will help you:

• Understand the value of Mobile Device Management, a toolset that enables Remote Management
• Learn how the use of an MDM solution can save an organization $230 per device per year in support costs
• Select the right MDM solution to best fit your needs

Contact us with any questions regarding mobile device management, or enterprise security in general.

The Vuquest 3320g is a compact, greatly improved fixed-mount area imager from Honeywell. Equipped with precise 1D, PDF417, and 2D barcode scanning capabilities, the 3320g is also highly durable — without the weight of similar fixed-mount imagers.

Designed with the customer in mind, the unobtrusive illumination contained within the Vuquest 3320g scanner reduces annoying after-effects commonly associated with the illumination used in imaging-based scanners.

The elegant design blends seamlessly in retail environments. It’s simply nicer to look at than other imagers in this class. Another key benefit of this form factor? Portability.

While “fixed-mount” might lead you to believe this imager is bolted down and permanent, the 3320g can be custom fit to various POS and register configurations without a major headache.

Upgrade to Vuquest 3320g from Honeywell 3310g or Similar Imagers

This imager is a direct upgrade from Honeywell’s Vuquest 3310g (end of life in November 2016). If you rely on a 3310g or a similar imager in a high-volume commercial environment, here are some compelling reasons to consider an upgrade to the 3320g:

1. Better digital screen barcode reading performance
2. Improved barcode reading performance for damaged or poor quality labels
3. Increased portability and flexibility in form factor
4. Backward compatibility with Vuquest 3310g (software, accessories, and more)

The Vuquest 3320g imager brings a more powerful solution to stores, pharmacies, hotels, and production lines alike. When it’s time to design a coherent loyalty, checkout, ticketing, or inventory system, consider working with Barcodes, Inc. to elevate your imaging to new heights.

Contact us today for Vuquest 3320g pricing and additional details.

Presented by:

Tim Killion – Enterprise Account Executive, Barcodes, Inc.

Moshe Meppen – Co-founder and CEO, VAXSYS Technologies, Inc.

Experts believe vaccine credentials will likely be required in a variety of places such as air travel, sports and concert venues, restaurants, universities, and colleges, and anywhere with a large population density.

To facilitate secure vaccination credential verification, Barcodes, Inc. partnered with tech leaders Zebra Technologies and VAXSYS to create a durable, equitable, and secure vaccination credential solution to replace the less than durable, easily-to-counterfeit paper cards. Key secure vaccination credential topics from this webinar include:

1. Various ways organizations will be utilizing vaccination cards in areas with large populations
2. How our vaccination card solution will help facilitate secure credential verification
3. The benefits of providing this solution

Contact us with any questions.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is constantly evolving with new categories of devices and endpoints, making the management of enterprise mobility more complicated. In addition, efficiency is tested by concerns like downtime, compliance, and security, making mobility management a top priority. SOTI’s Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution takes mobility to endless possibilities and frees your workforce to transform your business operations.

From deployment to retirement, SOTI MobiControl empowers companies to securely manage any device or endpoint with any form factor and operating system throughout their entire lifecycle. It controls all aspects of business mobility, from tracking physical assets to managing apps and content, while keeping data safe and secure. SOTI also eliminates downtime, making life easier for IT with the SOTI ONE Platform. As part of the SOTI ONE Platform, SOTI MobiControl and SOTI Assist deliver a complete remote support solution for business-critical mobility and intelligent IoT endpoints.

Ease overburdened IT staff with our customizable mobile device management services. Barcodes, Inc. can:

• Assist with solution selection, proof of concepts, and solution design to maximize your return on investment
• Deploy and provision your device fleet
• Load application software onto your devices and host SOTI MobiControl
• Help you control which applications are allowed to run on devices and which are blocked
• Push remote updates to devices deployed out in the field
• Support you from Day 1 and beyond

SOTI has been managing mobility for over two decades. Want to learn more about how to simplify your business mobility with SOTI MobiControl?

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It is estimated that nearly 73% of organizations plan to begin warehouse modernization by equipping workers with mobile devices. Increasing demand for faster and more accurate order fulfillment is a major contributor to this trend, despite fluctuating labor turnover rates. To keep warehouses ahead of demand, enterprise mobility solutions should aim at:

1. Validating incoming inventory to establish accurate stock counts as products arrive.
2. Streamlining put away, picking, packing, and shipping to prevent misplacements and lost stock.
3. Enhancing your reverse logistics process for seamless returns since most shoppers expect easy and free returns.
4. Simplifying inventory management and replenishment to avoid out-of-stocks.
5. Scaling up theft prevention capabilities with clear real-time tracking and counterfeit prevention.
6. Gaining universal mobile device management and support for maximized uptime.

Watch the video to see how Barcodes, Inc. and Zebra Technologies reinvent enterprise mobility in your warehouse.

To maximize your operational output, especially with labor shortages, you’ll need to rely on more powerful mobility technology and more efficient processes.

Implementing mobile devices is only the first step towards ensuring your warehouse’s future success. By partnering with Zebra Technologies, Barcodes, Inc. establishes a centralized hub where products flow to the market with ease, accuracy, and convenience. Examples include:

• Simplified receiving and picking – Ensure inventory accuracy with versatile mobile computers and RFID technology.
• Mis-shipment prevention – Save time and improve customer satisfaction with devices that scan and verify items as they’re packed to ensure on-time, accurate deliveries.
• Accelerated return process – Optimize the value of returned items and reduce revenue loss by accurately tracking and storing returned items.
• Streamlined inventory level verification – Leverage robots and wearable technology to quickly track inventory, reduce waste, and improve accuracy in the reordering process.
• Expanded asset visibility – Utilize RFID technology and smart lockers to increase mobile device visibility and prevent lost or stolen assets.
• Ensured interconnectivity – Integrate all apps and devices on the same, secure wireless network.

Download our flyer to see more ways Barcodes, Inc. continues to redefine modernized warehousing.

Choose Barcodes, Inc. and Zebra Technologies for your future warehouse solution. Contact us today to learn more about Barcodes, Inc.’s EDGE that maximizes your warehouse success with mobile device management.

Zebra’s ZT230 was created from extensive customer feedback and the learnings from legacy printers. As a result, Zebra introduces their newest innovative printer with a space-saving design. 

Featuring Zebra’s Link-OS environment, the ZT230 provides users with effortless setup, intuitive operation and easy service and maintenance. The ZT230 is the right choice for a variety of labeling applications, whether you’re adopting barcode technology for the first time or upgrading existing printer models. 

These innovative printers provide many user benefits, and they are ENERGY STAR qualified to save you money throughout their lifecycle. With its rugged all-metal case for long-lasting use, the ZT230 offers a graphical LCD user interface for easy printer setup and control, and S4M replacement that easily integrates into your environment. The ZT230 is ideal for barcode-labeling applications requiring more frequent format or printer setting changes. 

Zebra Technologies is committed to support a variety of industrial business needs. The ZT230 enhances operations with:

• Space-Saving Design: Compact footprint and streamlined design fits easily in confined areas where space is at a premium
• Simplified Serviceability: Easy, tool-less platen and printhead removal enable simple cleaning and replacement
• Reliability and Durability: Drive system designed for optimal performance, with minimal maintenance required
• Print Quality: Engineered for greater print precision with finetuned adjustments 

Meet the printer that was inspired by people just like you. 

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With outstanding functionality and features at an exceptional value, Zebra delivers high performance barcode label printers for industrial businesses. Contact us today to see how you can bring a new level of printing to your growing business.

Warehouse and fulfillment operations pose a great challenge any year, but consumer behavior during the pandemic has shifted heavily to online purchases. As a result, operations are handling larger inventories and more receipts, picks, shipments, and returns than ever before.

Meet the Demands of eCommerce Growth

While organizations focused on “keeping up” with demand, this was often at a higher cost (especially since many deprioritized process inefficiencies).

The eCommerce trend is not short-term. In Q1 2020, U.S. ecommerce sales climbed 39% over the same time last year, and growth projections already are nearly two years ahead of forecasts.

With demand still high, any inefficiencies in your processes will be exaggerated (and hence, more costly). Higher costs could mean serious limitations when scaling up your operations.

To optimize your warehouse for growth, small steps can make big impacts on your bottom-line costs, profit margin, even productivity – without significant investment in time, budget, or fancy software.

Ready to trim waste from your eCommerce operations? Get quick results with these five steps:

#1 – Establish a Cleaning Routine for Your Warehouse

Never underestimate the power of “clean.” Dust and dirt can damage product; empty pallets take up valuable space; and scrap boxes and strewn paper become obstacles and potential safety hazards that impede machine and people access, reduce productivity, and add extra steps as workers maneuver to avoid roadblocks. Implement an ongoing “clean routine” task list for your warehouse to streamline traffic and protect product – and workers.

#2 – Save Valuable Time with Cross-Docking

In eCommerce, there is a lot of pressure to ship items fast. If you have back ordered or single-item orders for certain products, you can save valuable time by skipping the restocking process. Instead, set up a process to relabel them for shipping right as they come off the truck on the receiving dock, and route them right back out the door of your shipping dock.

#3 – Simplify the Labeling Process

Labels have been around for decades, quietly getting inventory from point A to point B. Despite their importance, labels are perhaps one of the most underappreciated aspects of warehouse operations – and potentially one of the least efficient. Take time to audit and map your labeling process, paying particular attention to wasted motion, for example, the number of mouse clicks it takes to adjust formats, the number of trips a worker takes to/from the printer. Try to reduce the extra steps and work toward achieving an ideal mobile labeling process of Scan, Print, Apply. Mobile labeling stations, such as the Newcastle NB Series Nucleus System, help reduce walking and double employee productivity.

#4 – Organize SKU Location According to Volume

Certain items in your inventory may be more popular than others. For SKUs with higher order volumes or seasonal spikes, making them more accessible also makes processes more efficient. Location is key, so prioritize these items by placing them closer to packing for instance – and don’t forget to increase the bin size so stock doesn’t run low. 

#5 – Reduce the Steps Required to Fill Orders

It may be hard to believe, but simply reducing the physical number of steps an employee takes to fill an order can result in significant cost and time savings. Converting a stationary workplace to a mobile one is the easiest, most economical way to increase the productivity of your current workers and infrastructure. Powered industrial carts, such as the line of products from Newcastle Systems, can hold and power printers, computers, and more to remove the tethers of a stationary workstation. This is everything workers need to get the job done right at their fingertips.

Improving Warehouse Efficiency

Efforts to optimize warehouse processes don’t have to be time-consuming or expensive. And doing so improves warehouse efficiency, and enables you to scale your operations successfully along with ecommerce growth. Whether you have interest in a specific solution from Newcastle, or have questions about general warehouse efficiency, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Traceability and visibility are crucial measures for your manufacturing operation and production line. Proper traceability and visibility increase efficiency in the production line by catching defects before they leave the plant, thus reducing recall costs and effects. Without complete visibility, traceability systems will fail to report inaccuracies.

In fact, 69% of companies do not have total visibility over their supply chains, which leads many scrambling to prove everything is up to code during audits and inspections. When defects are identified in a product, organizations need to sort through mounds of data to track and trace raw materials. Otherwise, they may be facing a mass recall. These errors can cost your business millions of dollars, but the good news is that they are avoidable.

Effective tracking and locationing technologies empower manufacturing facilities to deliver fast, accurate, and quality service that secures efficiency for the whole supply chain. See how in our video:

Ensure Proper Tracing and Accurate Visibility with Barcodes, Inc.

Proper tracing and accurate visibility are key components to the well-being of manufacturing plants. Barcodes, Inc. ensures that your manufacturing plant is up to date with integrated solutions. Here are some ways proper tracing and visibility can impact your business.

1. Streamline cause analysis – Having access to the data on your products enables manufacturers to dig deep and find the root cause of problems. Identify and solve problems faster to minimize impact.
2. Consistent improvement – Once you are able to see how parts and products move through lines, it’s easier to see where improvement is needed. Knowing where and when bottlenecks and delays occur makes real-time optimization possible.
3. Enhance your value stream – Since traceability and visibility monitors how your products move through your manufacturing process, it also helps with value stream mapping. Equipped with detailed product genealogy records, manufacturers gain supply chain visibility, which provides your operation the ability to see the bigger picture.
4. Quality and engagement – Part traceability along the entire production line can also help find key points where quality check-ups should be added. It also increases accountability and engagement on the shop floor.
5. Simple real-time tracking – Easy-to-use technologies such as Zebra’s locationing hardware simplify on-the-fly tracking of your high demand inventory, by digitally connecting data to your centralized management system. This means workers spend less time looking through files and reports for faster and more accurate audits.

Download our brochure to see more ways effective tracking enhances the production floor.

Contact us today to learn more about RFID technology designed to maximize traceability and visibility in your manufacturing plant.