"Where is this item?" in the warehouse: barcode inventory management

Is the stock in your warehouse the same as the stock in your system? In most companies the answer is "not exactly". And that small difference turns into lost orders, unnecessary purchases and the embarrassment of telling a customer "I thought we had it, but we don't".

Why does the stock never match?

• Receipts and issues are recorded by hand. Goods arrived and someone forgot to write it in the book; an item went out and nobody deducted it.
• The count happens once a month, and even then by estimate. Between two counts the system does not know the truth.
• Nobody is sure where the item is. Finding the right shelf takes minutes; sometimes the item is never found.
• The same item under two names. Confusion in the records, a nightmare in the reports.

Wrong stock data is more dangerous than having no stock data — because you trust the wrong data and make decisions on it.

Barcode + mobile = a real-time warehouse

A barcode system that runs on the phone in your hand takes the warehouse out of guesswork and ties it to reality:

Receipts and issues recorded instantly

The barcode is scanned at goods receipt and stock goes up at once. It is scanned at shipping and stock goes down at once. No notebook, no delay.

Every item has a known location

Which item is on which shelf is in the system. The "where is this item?" question comes down to a search.

Counting takes minutes

Count by scanning instead of from a handwritten list; the error rate falls and the time shrinks.

Works offline

It works even in the corner of the warehouse with no signal, and synchronises automatically when the connection returns.

We develop these mobile barcode inventory apps integrated with Odoo — warehouse, shipping and sales talk to each other in one system.

Related services: barcode inventory and warehouse management, Odoo mobile app development.