ScanWorks™ Bar Code Data Collection
Wireless Radio Frequency Data Collection Technology for IFS Applications

Now you can unlock the power IFS Applications and optimizes your ERP systems performance with real-time, accurate data provided by wireless bar code data collection. With ScanWorks™ developed by eNSYNC Solutions your IFS Applications are fed accurate, real-time data giving you the reliable, real-time information you need to make up-to-the-minute business decisions.

Automatic Data Collection (ADC) offers tremendous productivity gains: Hard expense savings in labor costs; in faster inventory turns and lower inventory holding costs; immediate operational savings in lower expediting fees, delayed shipments and re-shipments; fixed asset reduction. Soft expense savings from: improved sales, better decision-making, employee productivity, and more satisfied customers.

ScanWorks™…………… A Complete Solution

“Ready to Go” ScanWorks™ Transactions

  • Purchase Order Receiving – Register and receive inventoried parts and quantities.
  • Change Site – Changes the User’s default Site to any other Site for inventory transactions.
  • Change Location – Moves inventoried parts to new Locations or Sites.
  • Receive From Transit –Moves inventory into new inventory location.
  • Query Part Location – Displays all available locations for a given part number.
  • Cycle Count – Inventory cycle counting.
  • Inventory Adjustments – Manual adjustment of inventory quantities by mobile users.
  • Issue Material to a Project – issues inventory parts to a Project Activity
  • Issue to Shop Order – issues parts to Shop Order and Line.
  • Report Man Hours – record employee time against Shop Orders.
  • Receive From Shop Order – takes inventory form WIP and puts it into Finished Goods and prints label
  • Receive From Repetitive Job- Receives Finished Goods or WIP into Inventory based on Repetitive Mfg.
  • Warehouse Task Mgr – allows individual tasks assigned to each user by name or task.
  • Picking – User scans Order Number and reserves and creates. Pick List in one transaction.

Movements

  • Inquire on location of any inventoried part at any site.
  • Maintain accurate, up-to-the-minute inventory visibility by automatically scanning and tracking transfers between locations.
  • Verify proper location put away upon delivery to the warehouse from receiving location.

Manufacturing

  • Locate, pick and record serialized or lotted parts efficiently.
  • Expedite material delivery to production using manual or automatic pick lists.

ScanWorks™ + ALS™ Works for Supply Chain Execution

In addition to these transactions, ScanWorks™ can team with companion product ALS™ Works to provide IFS users a bar code enabled warehouse and transportation automation system. See separate ALS™ Works brochure.

eNSYNC’s Advanced Logistics Solutions) for IFS Applications is a comprehensive collection of Supply Chain Execution (SCE) solutions for collaborative inventory management, warehouse management, yard management, transportation management, and mobile data collection. Known collectively as ALS™ Works, these solutions provide best-of-breed functionality for optimum inventory and order management to put, pick, pack, rate, palletize, load, ship, track, and document.

Shipping

  • Print pick lists and shipping documents with bar coded identification.
  • Optimize your shipping operation.
  • Reserve parts and pick parts in one operation. Pick by Customer Order for delivery.
  • Verify real time what parts were shipped for any given Customer Order.

For Purchasing/Receipt

  • Minimize receiving delays with faster more efficient procedures.
  • Print barcode labels for purchased parts.
  • Perform on-line validation against purchase order lines.

It works as you do

ScanWorks™ is readily configurable to match your ways of working. Tailor your own transaction set. Purchase only transactions that are applicable to your environment. ScanWorks™ can grow as your business expands.

Configured to your operation

As with IFS, ScanWorks™ is componentized and configurable. ScanWorks™ can be purchased in pieces. The modular design also means that future transactions may be added easily without updating your current configuration. This enables your ScanWorks™ system to grow as you expand your use of bar coding throughout your facilities.

ScanWorks™ increases inventory accuracy

Manual inventory systems are inherently inaccurate. Inventory movements written by hand or manually typed can have error rates approaching 10%. Multiply that by the number of times each item is handled and it’s not surprising that many inventory systems are ignored, the warehouse manager’s memory of what he has seen on the floor is often more accurate (and more current) than the computer system. ScanWorks™ is fast, accurate and easy to use – just point and shoot. Your employees will see the difference that ScanWorks™ makes. It not only accurately records inventory movements, but also provides them with reliable information on the location and quantities of the inventory that they need. You will see the difference in the bottom line with lower inventory costs.

ScanWorks™ supports traceability

ScanWorks™ provides essential support for IFS Lot and Serial tracking capabilities. Lot traceability assumes an accurate identification of materials and an audit trail of material movements. Serialized parts require selecting the correct component to be added to the right Shop Order or customer order. Bar code scanning ensures that accurate identification, and ScanWorks™ ensures that data reaches IFS.

Integrated security

ScanWorks™ recognizes all IFS security parameters. This assures that only those transactions allowed from/by the ERP are performed through ScanWorks™.

Integrated with IFS

ScanWorks™ is tightly integrated with IFS applications leveraging IFS’s superior component based architecture featuring open API’s. Real-time integration is achieved with the ERP systems so all inventory transactions are in the native IFS environment. Warehouse and shipping users can query for up-to-the-minute data on inventory status, shipping orders, etc.

Seamless integration

Developed to dovetail with IFS applications, ScanWorks™ manages communications with the barcode data collection devices and seamlessly integrates that data into your IFS data. These ScanWorks™ transactions use the same validation logic and processing as the standard IFS transactions. For example, shipping transactions are validated and processed through the same API’s regardless of whether the transaction is initiated from a hand-held scanner or from a standard IFS Reserve or Picking screen. ScanWorks™ supports a wide range of scanners straight out of the box and without the typical maintenance headaches that come with custom programming solutions. ScanWorks™ employs a “thin-client” design that simplifies the maintenance. Configuration changes for your scanners are simple and straightforward regardless of the number of scanners in use.

More than Seamless integration

With ScanWorks™, “seamless integration” means more than just empowering hand-held users to do the same transactions as standard IFS users. ScanWorks™ actually brings new capabilities to your ERP system. These include:

  • Look up and Query functions on Parts in which locations.
  • Taking your ERP system to where your employees work —on a forklift, in a cold storage room, at the top of a ladder or in the back of a truck.
  • Streamlining transactions like Receiving and Picking for optimal efficiency of warehouse and clerical personnel.
  • Custom data entry and collection transactions.

Labels like you want them

eNSYNC Solutions’ Bar Code Label Printing for IFS enables users to request a single label or a batch of labels. ScanWorks™ supports the quick printing of a wide variety of labels including Raw Material, Part Information and Finished Good Labels. All Symbologies and Standard Industry Templates are provided within an easy to use GUI label design tool.

Product bar code labels can be configured to include the most important information tracked in the inventory system. Label formats can also be easily modified to support large labels, graphics and custom information. Typical product labels include information such as serial number, lot number, part code, part description and key values.

Loftware Barcode Software Screen Shot:

Label design and print manager

  • ScanWorks™ is integrated with the industry leading label design software, Loftware.
  • Support graphical label design.
  • Provides background label printing.
  • Provides standalone label printing and label data entry with on-line validation.
  • Provides label printing to any printer anywhere on your network.
  • Provides user defined ERP data for each label format. Users can select data from any Oracle database.

Device independence. The hardware vendor is your choice.

By using industry standard communication protocols, ScanWorks™ incorporates proven flexibility and reliability for communicating with a wide variety of data collection devices such as Symbol, Telxon, Intermec, LXE, Sato, and others.

  • ScanWorks™ does provide support for many different makes and models of RF (wireless) devices. eNSYNC will be glad to assist in the selection of hardware to meet the automatic data collection automation needs of your company.
  • eNSYNC with its strategic business partnerships can supply many world-class bar code data collection devices.

Reap the benefits of ScanWorks™

eNSYNC Solutions project experience with applying bar code data collection technology has delivered tremendous benefits for ScanWorks™ users world -wide. IFS coupled with ScanWorks™ is a great value proposition for manufacturing customers.

  • More timely data capture.
  • Valuable data captured in areas not previously considered.
  • Increased quality checks and controls at critical stages in manufacturing process.
  • Increased visibility of inventory: from purchased parts, to packaging materials to sales parts.
  • Improved product tracking.
  • Streamlined data entry process.
  • Reduced labor costs.
  • Reduced inventory costs.
  • Improved sales.
  • Increased customer satisfaction.
  • Improved employee job satisfaction

eNSYNC Solution’s data collection specialists will help access the cost benefit potential and recommend business process improvement which can yield greater rewards once automatic data collection is in place.

 

ScanWorks™ COMPLETES your application solution

Download the ScanWorks™ Product Brochure HERE

Single source solution

eNSYNC Solutions has been helping businesses gain a competitive edge with bar coding for more than a decade. Our continued success is testament to the principal upon which the company was founded: delivering quality solutions, providing full-system support and making customer satisfaction the ultimate priority. Our comprehensive business solutions encompass superior software, great people and expertise uniquely focused on meeting the specific needs of manufacturers.

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