Technology plays a crucial role in transforming enterprise asset management (EAM), especially with the advent of mobile technology. Integrating mobile devices and apps with EAM solutions can streamline processes, reduce errors, and significantly lower operational costs. Adding barcode scanning capabilities takes this transformation further, ensuring seamless, transparent, and reliable asset and inventory management.
Why Barcode Scanning Enhances Mobile EAM
Barcode technology is revolutionizing how assets are managed in industries such as manufacturing, where vast quantities of assets require accurate tracking. Physically verifying each asset can be time-consuming and prone to costly errors. By incorporating barcode asset tags, organizations can reduce time and errors, improving asset reconciliation processes and boosting overall efficiency and profitability.
Benefits of Barcode Technology in Asset Management
Integrating barcodes or RFID tags into EAM enables organizations to collect precise data, ensuring better control over assets and enhancing revenue opportunities. A well-organized barcode system with printers, scanners, and labels streamlines cataloging and fixed asset counting. With automated identification and data capture (AIDC), organizations can locate remote assets, monitor asset movement, and optimize workflows.
Innovapptive's Configurable Barcode Scanning Solutions
Innovapptive is advancing barcode data capture with its configurable barcode scanning feature, offered through the Rapid App Configurator Engine (RACE™). This allows organizations to add barcode scanning to any mobile application screen and customize the captured data based on the barcode type. This configuration is done within SAP, without any coding.
Innovapptive’s solutions are compatible with handheld devices like mobile phones, tablets, external peripherals, and ruggedized devices, making them suitable for remote work environments.
mInventory: Mobile Inventory Management with Barcode Scanning
mInventory is Innovapptive’s mobile solution that supports SAP users, including warehouse clerks, managers, and delivery personnel. This solution allows seamless management of inventory transactions like stock overview, goods receipt, goods issue, picking/unpicking, packing/unpacking, and bin-to-bin movements—all with the convenience of mobile devices.
With mInventory, you can manage SAP inventory and extended warehouse management (EWM) transactions, ensuring real-time data accuracy and improved mobility. Barcode scanning enhances inventory management by enabling accurate stock overview, goods receipt/issue updates, and cycle counts for better operational efficiency.
- Stock Overview: You can scan barcodes of the inventory to get an overview of the total available stock (batch wise) of any inventory including the stock available in the plant and its respective warehouses.
- Goods receiving/issuing: By scanning the items (basic product data), you can update and post the Goods Receipt or Goods Issue report to the back-end server.
- Inbound/Outbound operations: By scanning the assets, you can accomplish a series of activities including material lookup, picking/unpicking the line items from the warehouse, packing/unpacking the items and checking the cycle count of the inventory in your warehouse at any given point of time.
Mobile Asset Management (mAssetTag)
mAssetTag is a mobile app designed for SAP’s FI-AA module users. It allows asset tracking and reconciliation through barcode scanning and geolocation tagging, all from a mobile device. By scanning assets, mAssetTag helps track their location, and the data is sent to the SAP FI-AA module for verification. This geotagging feature is especially useful during asset audits, ensuring accurate and timely asset reconciliation.
How bar code scanning technology is implemented in mAssetTag?
One of the features of mAssetTag is to help scan assets and tag their geolocation to start the asset reconciliation process. When you tap this feature on your mobile device, the GPS connection activates, and the camera opens to scan the barcode. Using your smartphone camera, mAssetTag reads the barcode and generates data, including positional coordinates (latitude and longitude) of the asset.
mAssetTag subsequently sends this data to SAP’s FI-AA module to cross-check it with the existing data on the server. Upon successful verification, the FI-AA module assigns an Asset ID that gets tagged with the scanned asset. This geotagging facilitates effective asset tracking and is beneficial during asset audits.
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