Logistics distribution specific case 2

Introduction to the
Planet Aid for non-profit organizations, the headquarters is located in the United States, Massachusetts, to through the national clothing collection and recycling programme to improve developing countries the life of the people.Planet Aid before selling donated clothing, and income to support in Africa, Asia and Latin America with HIV/AIDS education, community development plan.

The group has more than one inventory management problem: collecting clothes driving manual record clothing recycling the estimated amount of clothing in the cabinet.This method is prone to errors, because in the headquarters of the input data, are likely to misunderstand handwritten data.This method is very time consuming, because may be spending several hours to complete manually enter driving data work.Planet Aid decisions will be the input process automation, thus find CipherLab, with its8000Series of mobile data terminals as a solution.



The deployment of
Use CipherLab8000The inventory management process automation and internal database system collocation, said Planet Aid investment can pay off immediately.Planet Aid workers use CipherLab mobile data terminals easily scan clothes recycling bins, estimate the number of the clothes in the cabinet, and the information recorded in the CipherLab8000.All the data again from CipheLab scanner will be uploaded to the Planet Aid master database, and then performed by the database immediately analysis field production and measuring data.Planet Aid then according to the use of recycling bin and the capacity to establish more efficient clothing collection schedule.

"Before using CipherLab handheld scanner, sometimes spend hours driving input data, and then spend more time to do the final analysis," Planet Aid headquarters operations manager Jerry Maday, said: "use CipherLab8000Series mobile data terminals and our custom business applications, we finally can significantly reduce driving time and back office staff paper homework, our Planet Aid at the core of the operation to get a big improvement."

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