EVERY ITEM, EVERYWHERE

TRACK & TRACE APP

Our app runs from any (even cheap) standard Android smartphone, no particular terminal nor proprietary scanner scanner is required. This app is an excellent example of a sophisticated app that we have developed for our customers. It’s easy to use and fast scanning!

Track the critical items in your business, efficiently, from valuable production output, company assets, and even team activity with our QR code and bar code scanning & tracking systems.

The system is modular and highly flexible to diverse industries as well as scale-able to varying demands from different businesses.  

These systems efficiently provide the valuable missing information which many businesses struggle to control:

  • WHAT – do we have (what don’t we have)?
  • WHEN – did/ will we have it?
  • WHERE – is it now (where were it before)?
  • WHO – has it, did it, wants it?

This information is difficult to record manually and prone to human error. Combine a QR label, a scanner, hooked up to a live online database and suddenly you have a powerful business tool to track what’s going on.

DATA IN YOUR FACE!

Vivid, clear, live information on exactly the status of stock. Summarised bite sized information with drill-down to detailed history.

CASE: Squid fishing company

from first catch at sea to shore warehouse to despatch to customer

Catching 10,000’s Kg of fish each week is easily controlled by our fishing customer.  The fish has high value (and even has risk of theft).  As soon as the fish come on-board the fish are packed into uniquely labelled boxes.  The dedicated scanner app we developed records the box, the fish species, and size as well as the GPS location, date/ time of the catch, operator name, and the fishing vessel name.  When the fishing vessel is within 3G/ 4G mobile network range of the shore, the scanned data is sent to the company database for sales and stock management even before the vessel docks at port an hour or more later!

Benefits:

  • management get ‘catch’/ production data  even before the fishing boats reach shore – as soon as the vessels connect with mobile networks, still about 1 hour from port
  • earliest record of ‘catch’/ stock reduces risk of loss due to theft
  • historic record of fish caught in each area of the ocean
  • stock age is kept young thanks to knowing the exact catch date & good stock management
  • management obtains vivid statistical and graphical reports
  • detailed stock levels not just quantities but each individual box of fish

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Flexible & dynamic reporting.  Choose what kind of report you want to use easily.

Clear design & complete information even on a small screen

Crates are comprised of one or more boxes

Dynamic reports, easy & instant

Dynamic tabular reports

Vivid, up-to-the-minute reports

SYSTEM COMPONENTS

The complete system is flexibly comprised of 4 components which combine and scale appropriate to the business demands.

The scanner becomes the eyes and ears of a business; tracking each item through the business with trusted record and detail.  The database presents this data in the form of actionable vivid information.

LABELS
Unique (Secure*)

The labels are critical as the unique identifier of the item, and also could be part of each step e.g. a tag that identifies a workstation, warehouse store, truck, or person.
The label might be pre-printed in bulk or printed at the time of use. We consider all these factors in the system design and choice of printing method.

* the codes could be encrypted such that only certain codes are valid

SCANNER
customised or generic (even free!)

Smartphones have powerful computer processors with integrated high-resolution cameras, data storage, and networking capabilities able to be flexibly programmed.
There are many off-the-shelf apps too, but for most outstanding throughput, we develop a custom app. A custom scanner app not only scans QR/ bar codes, but also validates the codes, presents custom messages to the user, and integrates to the database.

DATABASE
Efficient powerful processing

At the heart of every system is the online (cloud) database, which stores the vast amount of data easily and processes this efficiently. Processes are predefined to work consistently. Vast amounts of data can be quickly processed.
The database is available worldwide to all authorised persons 24/ 7/ 365.

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION
vivid & clear

The database processes the vast amount of data into understandable, easy to view flexible reports. The reports all come with the ability to ‘drill-down’ into more detail, sort, filter, and highlight the data as actionable management information.

Reports can be scheduled to be emailed automatically to any recipient (e.g. a sales report at 8am, and 6pm each day directly to the CEO).

QR code and barcode tracking scanning

SCANNER IN YOUR POCKET

Use the SmartPhone most staff have in their pocket combined with super cheap or free QR scanner apps to create a powerful and flexible scanner.  The system will work with any Android based or Apple SmartPhone (whether cheap or expensive).

cloud database application

CENTRAL DATABASE

With a central database the data is accessible worldwide to all teams and parties that need it.  All that is needed is a device (SmartPhone, Tablet, Laptop, Desktop computer) with internet access via 3G/4G or WiFi.  Everyone gets the same version of the information.

statistical graphical management information

LIVE BUSINESS INFORMATION

Statistics and graphical information is updated live as it changes with each activity.

Teams, locally & worldwide, have access to the exact same information.

fast

FAST SCANNING

QR codes can be read super fast, compared to regular barcodes.  Each scan saves precious time thereby making the process even more efficient.

Our scanning app can scan continuously without human control to automate scanning e.g. at a conveyor belt.

upgrades updates

FLEXIBLE & INSTANT UPDATES

We can perform a system enhancement and it is available to all teams within minutes.  No need to install new software or shut down systems, the change goes live near-instantly – new reports, screens, options, all are made available in real-time.

QR CODES VS. BARCODES

QR codes can contain a little or far more information than a regular barcode.  As such they can include not just product identities but also price, description, categories, delivery addresses, customer names etc etc.  QR codes can even be printed such that even damage to the code still permits the code to be read.

Barcode codes tend to include just a short simple code.

encryption encrypted

ENCRYPTED CODES

We can create highly secure encrypted QR codes which validate high value items such as tickets, vouchers, or other financial ‘tokens’.

statistical graphical management information

BUSINESS STATISTICS

Our system provides textual as well as vivid graphical business information on the exact status of the items being tracked.

multi-language

MULTI LANGUAGE

Our systems can be in any chosen language to ensure your multi-national teams and customers are able to effectively use them.

customer care

ONGOING SUPPORT & MAINTENANCE

We are consultants focused on helping your business grow, we are delighted to be retained to support and maintain your systems.  Our support & maintenance makes it easy for you to get fast changes made to your systems.

With the large amount of data captured comes rich benefits of control, accuracy, trust, customer service, and efficiency.

Such control directly reduces wastage, improves efficiency, increases throughput, and more.

AUTOMATED
Reporting | Transactions | operations
ACTIONABLE INFORMATION
DETAILED | TRUSTED | CLEAR
ONLINE & LIVING DATA
Available 24/7 | Consistent
HISTORIC RECORD
what | who | when | where
IMPROVE CUSTOMER SERVICE
Informed | reliable
REDUCE WASTAGE
Control | Detailed status
Luxury Goods Tracking
Stock Location & Customer Service benefits

We have a luxury fashion exporter who uses unique QR labels on each high value product to track each location in the journey: from goods-receipt at their UK store, to dispatch, to receipt at the destination, and hand-over to customer.  The system provides not just sales information but also transit time, and history of journey so the customer can see where their goods are.  The QR codes are scanned at each point in the journey.  Since the data is simply the QR code and date/time and GPS location the scanner is a free Smart phone app available for Android and Apple devices.  The data is easily imported as a spreadsheet into the database.

Benefits:

  • precise purchase & sales records for each item
  • management obtains vivid statistical and graphical reports
  • each customer can see the location of their order from the moment they place the order to receipt (not just when the item is being posted)
High Value Engineering Manufacture
Traceability & Manufacturing Control

Our manufacturing engineering customer produces a limited quantity of very specialised, high cost, custom parts produced to precise specifications for high tech businesses such as marine and aeronautical engineering companies.  Handheld scanners record the date/ time and business operating (e.g. raw material receipt, inspection) as well as engineering operation (e.g. milling, polishing, grinding, testing, etc) as well as staff name/ id and the location of each uniquely labelled part.

Benefits:

  • there is an exact record of the processes that each part has been through
  • raw material source recorded in case of batch issues
  • information is instantly available to management
  • management obtains vivid statistical and graphical reports about e.g. the time performance for each business and engineering action
  • detailed stock levels; not just quantities, but each individual part and its location