As specialists in warehouse identification and marking products, ASG Services have vast experience in handling warehouse storage location data.
Customers most often provide data files generated from their warehouse management software (WMS) packages or supplied direct from their WMS providers following a detailed facility survey.
Our customers may present drawings or layouts of their distribution facility showing rack configurations, floor storage arrangements and/or the current location referencing. Using these details and with confirmation from the customer, we are able to build warehouse storage location data files which represent all locations required in order to produce products such as rack barcode labels and warehouse barcode signs.
Our experts are also able to create custom location reference files without prior systems.
Warehouse storage location data is usually very complex and extensive, for this reason ASG Services always involve the customer who must check and sign off the data before production can begin. As you might expect, this service comes with a cost, however it can speed the process and data is created in a suitable format with the need for re-configurations.
We typically ask that customers supply data as excel documents if creating them in-house.
You can discuss this subject in more detail by calling our office and speaking with our storage location data specialists direct.
Yes, these are a common request from our customers looking for pick accuracy improvements.
The barcode you choose to use is dependent on your location or product reference data requirements.
Although we are able to produce almost any barcode type you require, Code 128 is by far the most requested by the storage and logistics industry. This is impart due to the range of characters which can be used (128), being all digits, characters and punctuation and because of its data to size percentage, lots of data can be stored in this narrow width barcode.
Code 39 is the next most popular, which is less useful in terms of characters it can encode, but it is great for its simplicity and ease of scanning capabilities. This is often used with operations handling product specific references and a need to work quickly.
More recently we have been asked for DataMatrix and QR Codes which can contain huge amounts of data compared to linear barcodes.
They are ‘digits’ to be double ‘checked’ against the warehouse management system (WMS) records. Once the operative has arrived at the pallet or shelf location, they are asked by the system to provide the ‘check-digit’ information which ensures it matches that on the pick sheet or terminal. If their is a match, it is further confirmation they have found the correct location or product and they are able to proceed with the item pick. If it is a failed match, the operative is prevented from completing the pick task, and so knows to look again for the correct storage location.
Check digits are often provided by the warehouse management system, as randomized characters forming an addition to the location code. Most barcodes include a check digit within the symbology, calculated by other characters which form that barcode. In a storage environment, the check digit is typically a separate feature.
Below, you can see the user check digit presented as characters with a black background on a warehouse rack label and a barcode location sign. The operator reads the location reference, scans the barcode and enters the check digit.
We can create one from scratch if needed, there is a cost for this but we keep it low to ensure it is a cost effective alternative.
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