Supply Chain
Standardized labeling processes across the supply chain can help achieve the accuracy and efficiency goals of lean and Six Sigma programs, allowing tracking systems to be deployed deeply into the production cycle, and providing the interoperability that’s crucial to delivering value in today’s build-to-order and JIT supply environments.
Having the right labeling system in place — one that is secure, proven and reliable; that integrates completely with existing systems and workflows to enable single source of truth data management and closed loop workflows; and that scales and adapts to evolving business practices — can be the difference between a successful labeling system that simplifies the supply chain and a complicated one that creates costs.
QTE Solutions offers Seagull Scientific BarTender labeling software as an integral component for the logistics, warehousing, transportation, compliance and traceability labeling strategies in the world’s supply chains.
BarTender can help you accelerate your value chain transformation, providing integrated business planning and interoperability, while offering ease of deployment and technical support. At QTE Solutions we understand the competitive, rapidly changing and complex operating environments of today’s supply chains.
Integration
Seamless integration with ERP systems like Oracle, SAP and IBM WebSphere enables automation at the enterprise level, providing proper support for mission critical processes, increasing labeling accuracy and improving efficiencies throughout the supply chain.
Control and compliance
BarTender allows you to consolidate management of your system’s labeling processes and workflows, deploying the business rules and process controls that streamline and create value, reducing redundant and duplicated activities.
The centralized control of BarTender Enterprise Automation connects your business data with a wide variety of printers and marking devices — standardize formats, symbologies and security features throughout the enterprise while maintaining the ability to meet geographic variances such as language, regulations and units of measure, whether you have one printer device at a single site or thousands of printers at facilities around the world.
Security
BarTender enables compliance with the expanded security requirements of the labeling processes in regulated environments. Companies in food service, production and processing, and Pharma, personal care and Medical Device manufacturing rely on BarTender’s layers of configurable settings to add broad protections to the printing environment, with security features ranging from basic print-only settings to complex role-based permissions with label format encryption.
BarTender includes complete audit trail capture, allowing you to respond quickly during a recall or site inspection with pinpoint track and trace accuracy.
Flexibility
The ability to rapidly react to fluctuations in supply and demand dynamics and inventory turns can reduce throughput times and associated costs. BarTender’s Intelligent Templates™ offer the agility to perform and immediately deploy design, data and format changes throughout the enterprise.
BarTender includes over 400 pre-formatted, and has 59 different symbologies and 12 additional barcode standards. RFID encoding of tag types including EPC Class 1, Gen2, ISO 18000-6b, ISO 15693, Tag-It, I-CODE, TagSys, My-d, Picotag and more, with support for all EPC data formats.
