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Case Study – Cipherlab 1166 For Warehousing

CipherLab Scanners Sink Competition at Sierra Marine

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Sierra Marine, with headquarters outside of Chicago in Litchfield, Illinois,has been the leading manufacturer and supplier of marine engine and drive parts for more than 35 years. The company is a manufacturing division of publicly traded Teleflex Marine, and distributes more than 6,000 products to stores worldwide. Recently, the company s rapid expansion of its warehouse created difficulties for its employees. As the floor space grew, employees could no longer manage inventory in real-time due to the short wireless range of their old handheld scanners. As a result, data had to be manually  uploaded to a database when the scanners returned within range of the server. The problem was exacerbated by the age of Sierra Marine s handheld equipment, which began to fail on a regular basis.

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Case Study ? CipherLab 8300 for Retail

L Etoile Selects CipherLab 8300 Series to Open Stores Faster and Improve Efficiency


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In the highly competitive perfume and cosmetics industry, L Etoile has become the largest retail chain in Russia in just ten years. Over 30 stores stretch across Moscow, plus boutiques can be found in more than 25 regions around the country. Customers shop among 150 world famous brands from around the globe Christian Dior, Burberry, YSL, Matiss,Gucci, Clarins, and others, with the busiest buying season between December and April.

The business of beauty with beastly challenges
Though L Etoile offers many different brands, similarities exist with various manufacturers creating nearly identical products in comparable packaging. In some cases, the names in different languages provide the only differentiating characteristic. With so many products, manual inventory   both while stocking a new boutique and during daily receiving of goods   was time consuming and prone with errors. It took two to three days to inventory a new boutique. This was important time that could have been spent selling   instead of counting   product.
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