If employees are not using mobile printers to record, gather, print, and transmit data, they are handwriting important documents. This can lead to human errors in recording this data as well as misinterpretation of invoices by a billing department. For example, you may not be invoicing for all of the actual time and materials used, which can impact your income potential, or you may misinterpret parts inventories, which can lead to an expensive second service call if the right part wasn’t actually available at the right time.
Mobile printers reduce these errors and increase the accuracy in data gathering, helping companies avoid the expensive pitfalls of handwritten data.
In addition to automating data gathering, mobile printers also aid in pricing accuracy in retail industries. When it comes to price changes, mobile printers access the PLU database when completing a point-of-sale checkout – therefore, there’s no discrepancy between what the price should be and what the customer is charged. This helps retailers avoid both legal and public relations threats that can occur from pricing errors.
It also allows for two additional methods of price integrity: shelf-price audits with on-the-spot label printing and price verification kiosks. The audits eliminate pricing errors from mislabeling, and the kiosks are used by customers to get an accurate price check of a product as well as a printed price label to ensure customer confidence.
Mobile printers in action: DecisionPoint client and Greece retailer Jumbo used mobile printers and reduced its pricing errors by 80 percent!
Contact DecisionPoint Systems, Inc. to learn more about Zebra’s wireless mobile printers and how they can reduce errors and improve accuracy.