In today's demanding retail environment, making an accurate, informed decision right now may be your only competitive advantage. To streamline internal operations and to stay ahead of your competitors, its essential that you know it NOW.

Competition is at an all time high and customer loyalty at an all time low. New retail formats are invented everyday. Manufacturers become Retailers, Retailers become Manufacturers. Consumers shop by mail, telephone, and computer, even television.

Rapid change is all-pervasive. To be successful today, retailers must simply be more flexible than the competition, while deploying limited resources more effectively and efficiently.

Production facilities need real-time manufacturing information, as it happens information for making fast, informed decisions that deliver greater productivity, competitive advantage and customer value. There is a need for on-line systems to map the use of raw materials against the flow of product to the production line, linking into warehouse control systems, providing mobile line-side information 'on the move' for on-the-spot decision making

Enterprise resource planning systems have moved beyond the assembly line into every corner of the manufacturing supply chain. The latest data helps decision-makers react swiftly when demand spikes, deploy labor efficiently, control their costs, deliver the right goods at the right time, and stay ahead of competition.

Healthcare authorities throughout the world are faced with a number of conflicting issues - an ageing population with greater demands for expensive high technology care, pressures on budgets from government and the opening up of the insurance sector, which could lead to litigations by dissatisfied insurers and patients.

A number of initiatives have been put in place to combat rising costs, some government inspired and others stemming from best practice within the healthcare sector. Initiatives include prescribing of generic drugs, drug price regulation, control of prescribing, prescription charges, the encouraging of self-medication, a trend towards care in the home, cost control and budget capping. All of these have a major effect on costs but in many cases the application of these measures has, of necessity, been lacking in precision.

Real time information systems feeding automated decision support applications allow transportation companies to increase dispatch efficiency, decrease operational errors and add services otherwise impossible with traditional paper-laden information systems.

Your customers’ expectations keep rising. Part of the change in attitude comes from the overnight package delivery business.

Sophisticated information systems allow shippers to call any time of the day or night and find out exactly where their packages are. Within minutes of a package delivery, competitive couriers can tell a customer not only when it was delivered but who signed for it.

No one has understood this better than Scan Infotech, especially with the Indian context in mind.

And with our experience in developing Automatic data capture solutions; we extend the reach of your supply chain management applications to the point of activity. By using cutting edge information technology, like the Spectrum 24a Wireless LAN from Symbol, which supports their full array of mobile computing, communication and bar code scanning products, we develop solutions that enable information to the reached, shared, compared, related and integrated across the warehouse and throughout the entire enterprise. It is, in every sense, a business “intelligence” network that can help you plan and execute smarter, faster and more competitively.