Your company faces new challenges every day. To stay competitive, you need to maintain profit margins and satisfy customers´ expectations. It is imperative that you drive down costs, accelerate productivity and synchronize operations.

We have the capabilities that enable you to seamlessly integrate your fleet and inventory management systems and extend the reach of your information systems from warehouse, to dock, to point of delivery.

Whether you use a warehouse management system, an enterprise planning system or a legacy corporate system, capabilities from Symbol and our business partners enable you to reach, share, compare, relate, and integrate information across the warehouse and throughout your logistics operation.

Our Spectrum24® Wireless LAN, bar code scanning systems and mobile computers extend the reach of your supply chain management applications from dock to warehouse to truck.

As material moves from receiving to shipping, Symbol products:

• Streamline putaway. Truck-mounted wireless scanners and computers turn your fork-lift trucks into mobile data centers.
• Track inventory. When the pallet comes off the truck, goods and materials are tracked using bar codes and portable computers such as the rugged PDT 6800, with its large 16-line high-visibility display and construction that stands up to harsh environments.
• Automate picking and shipping. Free hands to grab parcels and collect data with small, wearable computers and terminals like the WSS 1000 Wearable Scanning Computer System - the perfect tool for counting and replenishing inventory.

Here is how your operation benefits when you automatically track and control inventory as it moves cross-dock:

Dock workers don't lose track of freight because they use mobile data terminals such as the rugged, truck-mounted VRC Series, which show them part lots and multiple shipments at the same time.

Supervisors know what's happening at all times because they have at their fingertips mobile computing applications that enable them to have the information they need to find equipment and determine shipment location and status.

Supervisors and workers save time by communicating job assignment details anytime, anywhere, with laptops and portable terminals linked into a Symbol Spectrum24® Wireless LAN network.

Send data to the host terminal as the truck is being loaded instead of collecting and forwarding documents when the trailer is closed and ready to depart. The driver can be dispatched as soon as the truck is loaded. The bar code-based dockside system using Symbol's lightweight, rugged, easy-to-use, portable computers eliminates keystroke errors and the need to search for forwarding documents.

Before trucks leave the terminal, your dispatchers use automated route planning to identify the most cost-efficient routes each day. Vehicles equipped with Symbol's PPT 4600 Series Portable Pen Terminal, VCD 4612 Cradle and Symbol Mobile Gateway Plus (MG-Plus) have all the mission-critical capabilities of fixed-station operations. Drivers collect valuable data as they travel their routes. Work flow increases because your drivers can:

• Quickly scan documents such as shipping manifests encoded with PDF417 two-dimensional bar codes. Automating data collection reduces paperwork handling at the loading dock and speeds loading and delivery of outbound shipments.
• Efficiently capture and transmit signatures and other pen- or touch-entered data. You have proof of delivery on line if you need it.
• Print delivery confirmation slips for customers on the spot.
• Instantly send and receive data messages such as service completions and new pick-up assignments over Symbol's Spectrum 24® Wireless LAN network featuring wide area network (WAN) connectivity.

For even more route efficiency, augment the onboard system with a keyboard, global positioning system, radio modem and uninterruptible power supply. All the components fit in a ruggedized unit that mounts securely in the cab.

Automate deliveries

Symbol's mobile computing solutions shorten cycle times and increase efficiency at the hub facility, too.

As inventory arrives, hand-held computers capture pick-up and delivery information and batch transmit the data to the central computer.

At the outbound dock, workers use the host-based delivery data to quickly load trucks for the next day.

Delivery schedules download directly to the driver's portable pen terminal. When the driver is ready to go, so is his day's schedule.