AMM is pleased to offer a powerful component in our suite of results-oriented warehouse tools, WMS’s Catchweight Module with our exclusive Vari-Scan technology. With this product your company can save time, money and improve accuracy over your existing weight capture solution. Read on to find out how.

The Problem

Manually capturing catch weight information is both time-consuming and inaccurate. There are usually multiple people handing off paper to one another, and difficulties in reading others’ handwriting can easily result in mistaking certain numbers, like 5’s and 8’s, for example. It also increases your expenses by lowering your capability for order throughput, since the catchweight step represents a significant bottleneck in your operations.

Even for those of you with an existing scanner-based catch weight solution, each manufacturer presents a different barcode format, where the weights could be in different places, or even represented differently. The same manufacturer, over time, could change their format as well. Also, a small percentage of bar-coded products are damaged and unreadable, which requires manually entering those weights on the scanner — not an easy task, especially in cold environments.

The Solution

Five Fold increase in Catchweight Acquisition Speed

By employing cutting edge scanning technology, you reduce your error rate dramatically while improving throughput in the catchweight step about five fold. The weights and number of scans are sent over to WMS and automatically and seamlessly integrate into your order, where you can print reports that are weight and quantity-accurate, and verify the status of any pending order’s scanned status. This can be done using either our Warehouse Management Windows interface or our elegant Web-based interface. You can even give your customers the ability to view and print reports, and receive automated emails telling them when you’ve shipped their orders. For many people, your ROI could be achieved in less than a year!

Future-Proof Your Investment

This program also gives you something no other competitor we are aware of currently offers. With our ingenious Vari-Scan technology, we take care of any variation between barcodes by employing a deciphering step that zero’s in on the weight portion of the barcode automatically! Even if your company experiences no variation issues currently, this technology will ‘future-proof’ your investment against unwanted software modifications in the event that the barcodes do change in the future.

Advanced Features

We’ve loaded this product with advanced features and data validity checks that can turbo charge your accuracy and speed. They can be configured to be used or not, depending on your need. Additional costs may apply.

• Weight Discovery Logic

• Duplication Check

• Product Check

• Date Code Check

• Weight Range Check

• Shortage Handling

• Order “Tag Teaming”

Why Buy This Module?

There are a number of factors, to consider when making a purchase for catchweights, but the bottom line is that the Vari-Scan Catchweight Module enhances your current weight capture method, saving your company time and money while improving accuracy.

What’s Included

• Core Handheld Scan Program

• An Intermec Ruggedized Pocket PC Color Scanner

• Batch and RF capable system

• Cipher Table to easily adapt to future barcode weight formats

• Basic Report Integration (Inbound Worksheet/Pick/BOL/Weight Sheets)*

• Scan Status on Inbound/Outbound Edit Screen (which shows either Unprocessed, Incomplete, or Complete)*

• Weight Discovery Utility, as insurance that your program will work on any existing or new packer barcodes

• 100% fully compatible with AMM’s WebWMS and WMS

• Integration into 3rd party applications

*using AMM’s WMS product

What’s Required

• A workstation running Windows 2000 or XP, or a Windows Server to run
the back end

• Optionally, additional Handhelds (if needed)

• Radio Frequency access points (only if RF mode is needed)

• Laser printer (to print barcode-enabled documents)