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Shipping Label Scanners for Streamlining Shipping and Receiving Tasks
Shipping labels must be scanned effectively to save time and keep errors at bay. Investing in the right shipping label scanner solution is essential to reduce costs and errors, accelerate deliveries, and enhance customer service.
An additional layer of complexity arises due to the fact that many enterprises maintain their own specific guidelines for Global Transportation Labels (GTL). These guidelines are often tailored to meet internal process standards, regulatory compliance, or customer-specific requirements, significantly impacting label formatting and barcode symbology choices.
How Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK Addresses Enterprise-specific Challenges
Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK empowers enterprises to seamlessly address these unique Global Transportation Label challenges by offering:
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Broad Barcode Symbology Support: Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK supports all major barcode formats, including less-common symbologies that enterprises might specify, such as MaxiCode, USPS Intelligent Mail, DataMatrix, PDF417, and various composite barcodes.
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Flexible Integration and Customization: Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK can be swiftly integrated into existing enterprise systems and customized to meet unique formatting and barcode placement requirements. Its adaptability ensures compatibility with varied GTL standards without significant operational disruption.
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Exceptional Durability and Accuracy: Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK includes advanced algorithms capable of accurately scanning even damaged, distorted, or poorly printed barcodes, ensuring compliance with enterprise durability and readability standards.
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High-speed Multi-barcode Scanning: Dynamsoft’s advanced barcode detection technology ensures rapid processing by reading multiple barcodes in a single scan, significantly reducing delays during peak periods.
By adopting Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK, enterprises can confidently meet their internal GTL guidelines, significantly enhancing operational efficiency, accuracy, and regulatory compliance throughout the global transportation process.
Barcode Scanning through the Shipping and Receiving Process
The shipping and receiving process starts from the fulfillment center and ends at last-mile delivery, where the product needs to reach its final destination. At every step, barcode scanning is crucial as it helps streamline workflows by ensuring everything is in place.
Order picking and packing at a fulfillment center
The order fulfillment process involves storing, assembling, and picking the orders and then shipping and delivering them to the respective customers, along with the other functions that support these tasks.
Barcodes help remove human errors to better warehouse management and intralogistics operations and help cater to the increasing demand for e-commerce fulfillment. Barcode scanning solutions are also crucial during the delivery phase for reading shipping labels and simultaneously identifying the products as per the information contained in those labels.
Dimensioning and weighing machine equipped with barcode scanners
At distribution centers, the packages traverse through a conveyor system for the sortation process via dimensioning and weighing machines that help capture the weight and dimensions of the packages, boxes, cartons, etc., along with the barcodes on their labels. Intelligent dimensioning and weighing scanning systems support reading linear as well as 2-dimensional barcodes.
Mobile barcode label scanner for truck drivers
Once the products are packed, the warehouses load them into trucks for shipping. A shipping label scanner can be used to make the loading process error-free and fast, as manually doing so will only increase the time involved. Using a mobile barcode label scanner over handheld barcode scanners further eliminate the need to invest in dedicated devices and increases compliance.
Last mile delivery
The last step in the shipping and receiving process is the delivery of the products to their destination. Barcode scanning solutions add flexibility, ensuring that the packages are being delivered to the correct locations and meet workflow demands.
Robust mobile barcode scanning helps offer real-time visibility that allows last-mile delivery providers to track the status of the deliveries while they are in transit and detect driver performance problems such as missed time windows, damaged inventory, etc., for quick resolutions.
Barcode Formats on Shipping Labels
Every shipping label contains unique information vital for transporting a parcel from one location to another. Whether it is a UPS shipping label, FedEx shipping label, or USPS shipping label, all shipping labels must contain this data.
Most shipping labels contain the following information:
- Type of goods
- Tracking number
- Postal code of the origin and the destination
- Address of the origin and the destination
- Country
- Date and weight
- Level of the urgency of the shipment- 24-hours delivery, same-day delivery, express delivery, etc.
The most commonly used barcode types in shipping and receiving are listed below.
- USPS Intelligent Mail
- Industrial 2 of 5
- Interleaved 2 of 5
- Codabar
- Code 39
- Code 93
- Code 128
- MSI Code
- PDF417
- Micro PDF417
- DataMatrix
- MaxiCode
Get Started with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK
Looking for an enterprise-grade shipping label scanner for your business? Check out the online barcode scanner demo to see Dynamsoft Barcode Reader in action. If you want to thoroughly review all its features and find out if it is perfect for your business needs, download the 30-day free trial. Choose from hundreds of APIs to cater to your specific requirements.
If you have any queries or doubts, feel free to contact us. For sales queries, connect with us at sales@dynamsoft.com.