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Project Team Training and
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System Readiness and Needs
Analysis
Many companies now supply computer and
material handling systems that use bar codes and bar code printing and scanning
equipment can be integrated into existing systems. Few have the general system.
Why? Companies
using bar code or planning to should perform an audit to make sure that:
 | They are not wasting money labeling products
that should be labeled by the supplier. And that they know how to get suppliers
to comply with industry standards.
| Systems that are in place are using the
latest cost-cutting or time-saving improvements.
| They have not or will not automate activities
in receiving, shipping, inventory taking and accounting that, in fact, can be
eliminated.
| They know how to explain system or equipment
needs to the bar code related system supplier.
| They know how to make their staff, their
company, their system and their trading partners (customers and suppliers) ready
to use bar code and electronic commerce.
| They know how to evaluate the capabilities of
a perspective supplier of bar code related hardware, software or systems. |
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Quad II’s Role: Quad
II will act as a resource to provide technical understanding about bar code
equipment, operations and standards in order to:
| Provide general knowledge about the
technology and the impact on your business.
| Help you establish plans, policies and
procedures to encourage your suppliers to apply usable bar codes and for your
company to use them.
| To review the technical feasibility and
system compatibility of the methods and processes that are using or could use
bar code (perhaps recommend alternatives).
| Help your company establish a
"roadmap" for adopting the use of bar code and related supply chain
technologies. |
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Deliverables:
| Staff Meeting and facility tour:
 | Familiarize your staff with terms and
concepts dealing with the use of bar codes used in the supply chain.
| Observe current information and material flow
processes and discuss alternatives that would use bar code.
| Identify and develop goals that your staff
feel can be attained through the use of bar code.
| Discuss support issues like "Company Bar
Code Policy," "Functional Description of Operation."
| Provide "Company Internal Capabilities
Profile" and "Supplier Profile."
| Provide "Bar Code Readiness Test."
| Begin "Compliance Audit." |
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| Report "Needs Analysis and System
Review." This brief report will:
| Provide a description of the "Bar Code
Project Description."
| Outline a "Company Bar Code Policy"
that will be used to request compliance on the part of your suppliers.
| Identify the various processes that should
use bar code and provide a brief description of each. |
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