Here's something for the office manager and organized freak in me. This new IntelliScanner Collector is a bar code scanner that allows you to scan all of your items that have a barcode on them. This would be especially useful for office managers seeking to keep office inventory and supplies accounted for.
It is unclear about where these barcodes come from, whether you use barcodes from when the item was first purchsed, or if you print new barcodes and stick them on your inventory, but either way, this scanner could save you hundreds of dollars in stolen staplers around the office. Now you can hunt down that three-hole punch that the annoying secretary took home when she was fired last year.
This product not only could help you keep hold of things due to petty theft around the office, but it could also help you keep better detailed records for insurance purposes. In the case of fire or some other disaster you would have detailed records in order to prove the amount of inventory that was damaged or lost in the event of some sort of disaster.
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Which barcode you use is up to you -- if the item has a barcode on it that you want to use, you can scan that in with the IntelliScanner. Otherwise, you can attach a pre-printed IntelliScanner Asset Tag to the item. The point is to simply give it a unique number.
You may want to use a tag, anyway, if you have a bunch of the same item. For example, everyone at my office has the same VoIP phone, and they all have the same barcode on the bottom representing the model number. This doesn't help me identify one over another, so a tag is applied so it can be tracked uniquely.
Most businesses go around and re-scan everything once a year... then you can compare with what you had in the system, so you can know what's missing.
- Paul Scandariato, IntelliScanner Corp.
Posted by: Paul Scandariato | May 9, 2006 7:04 PM | Permalink to Comment