Stocktakes Online — Barcode Datalink
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Software is half of it. The other half is stuck to the racking.

A stocktake is only as good as the labels it reads. We make the physical side as well: pre-printed bin locations, magnetic labels that move when the racking does, and Zebra printers so you can produce your own.

Why it matters

An unlabelled bin is an uncounted bin.

Every count in the system is tied to a location. If the racking is labelled badly — handwritten, faded, peeling, or numbered in a scheme nobody remembers — the count that comes back is precise about the wrong place. Getting the labels right before the count is the cheapest thing you will do.

01

Pre-printed bin locations

Printed from your location list, in order, ready to go up. Barcode plus human-readable text, sized so an operator can read it from the aisle and scan it from a distance. Materials chosen for the environment — a label in a freezer needs a different adhesive from one in a dry store.

See a real sheet →
PDF — the 65 locations from our demonstration site, each with its code, its name, and the barcode a scanner reads.

02

Magnetic rack labels

For racking that gets reconfigured. Magnetic labels lift off and move with the beam rather than being scraped off and reprinted, which matters in a warehouse that reorganises with the seasons or by contract.

03

Zebra label printing

Printers, media and ribbons, plus the setup to make them produce the label you actually need. Desktop printers for a back room, industrial units for a despatch bench, and mobile printers for labelling in the aisle.

A printed bin location label reading A-4-L, on a magnetic strip fixed to a
                  warehouse racking beam, with rolls of Zebra printer ribbon stacked on the shelf
                  above it
All three of the above, on one shelf in our own store. A poly label reading A-4-L — barcode for the scanner, large text for the person — on a magnetic strip that lifts off when the racking is reconfigured, above a shelf of Zebra ribbon. This is what a labelled location actually looks like once the printing is done.
Getting it right

Things worth deciding before anything is printed.

01

A location scheme that survives contact with the building

Aisle, bay, level, position — consistent, sortable, and readable aloud over a radio. A scheme invented one bay at a time becomes unusable at about bay forty, and by then it is on the racking.

02

Where the label goes, and how high

Scannable from where the operator stands, not from where a ladder would put them. For high racking that usually means larger barcodes and a long-range scan engine rather than a climb.

03

The right material for the environment

Freezers, dusty stores, outdoor yards and washdown areas each defeat a different adhesive. Getting this wrong shows up six months later as labels on the floor.

04

Product labelling, where stock has none

Plenty of stock arrives unbarcoded. We can print item labels to your own numbering so it can be counted like everything else, rather than being the exception somebody handles on paper.

See a real sheet →
PDF — 280 parts from our demonstration catalogue, each with its barcode, its number and its description. Note the numbers that begin with a zero: they survive the round trip, which is not true of every system that has ever been handed a spreadsheet.

One supplier

Software, hardware, labels and support.

The reason to buy these together is not convenience. It is that when a scan fails, nobody is arguing about whether it is the label, the scanner or the software — because it is all ours, and we will come and find out.

Need racking labelled before you count?

Send us your bin location list and we will quote the labels, the format and the fixing method — and print them ready to go up in order.

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