RE: bar coding and portable devices

["Andy J. Jacobs" <ajjacobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chick
You can use a software tool like our QuikTrac 5.0 that allows you to take
that specific transaction and map it down to the data collection device. You
would be able to do the INV500 transaction real time directly into BPCS.  By
doing this directly into BPCS, you are using the power of your system and it
will not allow you to enter information wrong without an error.  If you do
receive an error while doing it, you will be able to handle and correct the
error right then and there.

Please feel free to contact me off line and I we can talk further about some
of the simple ways you can extend your BPCS system in two day.

Andy Jacobs
President
Integrated Barcoding Systems
734.669.6000 Ext.101

-----Original Message-----
From: Chick Doe [mailto:Cdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 9:17 PM
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: bar coding and portable devices

this is a generic question not tied to BPCS or any specific portable
data entry device.

our current practice is to print work order forms, send them to the
stockroom to be pulled, they write the actual qty pulled and from what
location, then they forward one copy of the form to a data entry person
who sits and enters the transaction into INV500. i'd like to give the
stockroom staff a portable data entry terminal and have them enter the
transaction themselves. but i am running into interference from some
parties who say that if i did this there would be no audit trail or
verification of the transactions and quantities that were actually
entered. 

so my question is: how do companies audit the various transactions that
are made using portable devices? how do you know that the proper
transactions are being made? how do you prove it to the accounting staff
and their legions of auditors that want to see source documents and
transaction audit trails?

chick doe
prime measurement systems 
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