Testimonials & Case Studies
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In-Aisle Pricing
Business Challenge: UPC labeling for both domestic and imported products that are often received without the necessary price and UPC bar code labels.
-Jungle Jim's, Denise Burkhardt, Scanning Coordinator
Business Challenge: Each store took approximately 17 hours to mark down 7,000 items each per week.
Business Challenge: The Customer needed to improve shelf labeling, streamline inventory management and improve the process for their 235 retail stores to return merchandise to their distribution centers.
Business Challenge: This Hardware, Feed and Grain Retailer wanted to reduce labor hours in order to improve operating margins.
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Mobile Markdowns
Business Challenge: This Retailer has a large clearance area with many racks of individual items.
Business Challenge: To designate a markdown, this Retailer placed a slash on the tag with a marker.
Business Challenge: This 600 store retailer performs thousands of markdowns each week, and needed to streamline markdowns and decrease the cost associated with their markdown process.
Business Challenge: Labels were easily being removed in the store and customers were price-switching labels, resulting in significant revenue loss for the Customer.
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Mobile Sign Printing
Business Challenge: Redundant handling of replacement signs created bottlenecks at the printer in the back room. Many unneeded signs were printed, and sign waste was in excess of 30%.
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On-Demand Shelf
Business Challenge: The Customer is responsible for relabeling shelves to display new drug store client vendor-specific codes. They needed a faster, more efficient way to track inventory and to perform pricing tasks.
Business Challenge: The current shelf tag application was timeconsuming and error-intensive. Associates spent a great deal of time cutting the shelf tags with scissors. Missing tags required a back-up in-store tag printing application which took the associates off the floor and delayed pricing.
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Out-Of-Stock Solution
Business Challenge: Colored label dots and written logs were used for out-of-stock items. A system was needed to generate pick slips for the replenishment of out-of-stock products.
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Store Transfer
Business Challenge: Redundant scanning and uploading/ downloading required for store transfers delayed the adjustment of inventory.
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Rework
Business Challenge: A Manufacturer of outdoor clothing is required to attach individual item marking labels. Item labels are unique to the retailer that will stock the clothing, and cannot be source marked during manufacturing.
Business Challenge: A Clothing Manufacturer is required by their customers to attach individual unique item marking labels to various products.
Business Challenge: The rework or value add area is responsible for correctly marking individual clothing items that are being "branded" for a particular retail customer. The items need an updated price tag because the previous tag was incorrect, or had been changed while the goods were in transit.
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Mobile Carton Labeling
Business Challenge: The Customer's receiving process involved verification of the received items, and then the printing and hand applying of labels that were used for routing and storage within the Distribution Center.
Business Challenge: A major Car Seat Manufacturer was selected by Wal-Mart to identify a specific car seat with an RFID label at the item level.
Business Challenge: A top Meat Manufacturer, a supplier to Wal-Mart, was requested to send their cases and pallets to specific Wal-Mart Distribution centers with RFID labels applied at the case and pallet level.
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Centralized Printing
Business Challenge: A highly secure labeling system was needed to ensure accurate distribution and to protect the brand against black market replicas.
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Receiving
Business Challenge: A time consuming and inefficient process led to delays in receiving detail and inaccurate inventory records.
Business Challenge: A time consuming and inefficient process led to delays in receiving detail and inaccurate inventory records.
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Production Line Print and Apply
Business Challenge: Enhance efficiency and reduce downtime on 24/7 production lines.
We are especially satisfied with the label flexibility resulting from the use of the print and apply machines.
We have seen an immediate increase in capacity due to the improved speed of both filling and labelling our product boxes. This surplus has been used to serve more customers and thus increase our revenue and we are looking to install more machines across all our production lines."
-Henri Simons, Bakery Manager of Bakkersland
Business Challenge: As a large newspaper, with daily circulation of 800,000, and more than 1,140,000 on Sunday, the Customer has sophisticated automation, material handling and sortation technology.
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High Speed Labeling
Business Challenge: This Customer was receiving complaints from their customers regarding the scan rate of bar codes being placed on their “corner bead” products.
Business Challenge: A major Distributor for a large retail shoe chain needed a better shipping label process. Employees were printing out each individual label and hand applying them frequently to the wrong spot on the boxes.
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Inventory Control
Business Challenge: The Customer needed to improve shelf labeling, streamline inventory management and improve the process for their 235 retail stores to return merchandise to their distribution centers.
Business Challenge: Santa Fe Optical is a successful retailer offering designer eyeglass frames to its clientele in Austin, Texas.
Business Challenge: Columbus Fair Auto Auction (CFFA) is one of the largest automobile auctions in the United States, housing up to 25,000 cars at any given time that are slated for eventual sale in its weekly live and internet auctions.
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Automated Labeling
Business Challenge: This Fresh Produce Processing Facility had 43 packers hand mark each carton produced for number of fruit, color/size of fruit, mode of shipping and packer code.
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FreshMarx - Automated Labeling
Business Challenge: Although the busy kitchen of Quaker Steak & Lube in Middleton, WI is always hopping with up to 12 employees prepapreing and labeling enough food to accommodate its weekly 5,000 to 6,000 guests
Proprietor, Scott Acker, nevery worries about the freshness of the food he serves. "My freshness labeling and food rotation are virtually mistake-proof"
Business Challenge: Hollywood Slots Hotel and Raceway in Bangor, ME is an 8-acre entertainment complex that welcomes as many as 8,000 guests per day.
"They're so simple to operate that they required very little employee training," stated Executive Chef, Gary Ames. "They produce consistently legible labels everytime"
Business Challenge: Food date marking - Maintaining the businesses image by providing the freshest in food quality while satisfying the Board of Health requirements - saving money and time.
"Imagine impressing the health inspector and saving labor..." Robert Camey, Executive Chef, Grosse Pointe Yacht Cub
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Cross Docking
Business Challenge: A Leading Retailer had a need to improve the cross docking process at their receiving door terminals in order to improve employee productivity and merchandise handling efficiency.
Business Challenge: The cross-docking process was very labor intensive, requiring the Customer's receiving line workers to unload the trucks and carry the packages to stationary printer locations to be labeled with a routing label.
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Theft Prevention
Business Challenge: Santa Fe Optical is a successful retailer offering designer eyeglass frames to its clientele in Austin, Texas.
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