Retail
From the day in 1974 that the first UPC barcode was scanned at a supermarket checkout line, the Auto-ID and retail industries have been partners in innovation. From that simple 1D symbology for point-of-sale data capture, the collaboration between the industries has grown tremendously — the latest barcode and RFID technologies run the entire retail value chain, providing new ways for the retail industry to do business.
Today’s retail environment is more competitive than ever: According to Dun and Bradstreet, the retail sector accounts for 13.6% of annual business failures globally, and only 47% of new retail businesses are still in operation four years after start-up. The retail businesses that succeed depend on unprecedented levels of data accuracy and process agility.
A well-deployed labeling, barcoding or RFID solution gives retail businesses the tools they need to keep up with rapidly evolving standards, technologies and business-to-business interoperability requirements.
QTE Solutions offers Seagull Scientific BarTender Enterprise Automation software to meet the retail industry’s increasing demands for a lean, efficient supply chain. BarTender’s labeling, barcoding, RFID encoding and plastic card printing provides the foundation for accurate data management throughout the retail environment: e-commerce, brick-and-mortar, and supply /distribution channel, POS, front-of-the-house and back-of-the-house. With its powerful design tools and printer compatibility, BarTender supports the industry’s diverse label and card printing needs, including:
- Shipping labels
- WIP labeling
- Shelf labels
- Warehouse and logistics labeling
- Quality labels
- Promotional labeling
- Membership cards
The retail industry chooses BarTender for its reliability, scalability and built-in standards, all backed with a deep understanding of the industry’s need for data accuracy, systems efficiency and process agility. BarTender’s forms-based interface makes it easy for associates to learn and use, whether in the front of the house, back of the house or warehouse.
Integration
Seamless integration with ERP, SCM, PLM and WMS systems enables automation throughout the enterprise and single-source-of-truth data management, providing consistent and agile printing of inventory and pricing data.
Control and compliance
BarTender allows you to easily and securely use accurate pricing and inventory information with printers throughout your system’s network, whether desktop, mobile, card or RFID.
The centralized control in BarTender Enterprise Automation allows you to consolidate management of your system’s labeling processes and workflows, deploying the business rules and process controls that enable inventory synchronization — tie the barcodes and RFID tags at the pallet, case or product level to a single data source, providing deep visibility into the supply chain and labeled price integrity.
Flexibility
The ability to rapidly react to fluctuations in supply and demand dynamics and inventory turns can reduce costs. BarTender’s Intelligent Templates™ offer the agility to perform and immediately deploy design, data and format changes throughout the enterprise.
BarTender includes standards that enable global trade, including the BarTender GS1 Application Identifier Wizard for reliable and compliant GS1 coding. With BarTender, encoding RFID is as simple as creating a barcode, with support for all EPC data formats.
