Boost your stock management for your inventory periods

End of the year, Black Friday, sales, seasonal sales under a marquee… Peaks in activity imply periods of inventory for many professionals. These periodic increases require a temporary increase in IT equipment. This can include computers and cash registers, but more generally, it is the inventory that are needed to optimise stocks. Buying equipment for one-off needs is a considerable expense with little return. Renting barcode scanners is a much more economical and environmentally friendly solution.

Handhelds at the heart of successful inventory management

Renting barcode scanners simplifies both your regular and ad hoc inventories. These barcode scanners are a real time-saver compared to paper-based inventory management. This is especially true for large fleets of assets.

With inventory scanners, the process of adding materials or tracking inventory is accelerated. The automaticity of the process also makes it possible to bypass many human errors. IT asset managers can base their decisions on real-time data.

What type of inventory should I choose? Votre choix dépend de votre budget et de la prestation attendue. Laser scanners are the most affordable, but are limited to reading linear barcodes. To read damaged or poorly readable barcodes, linear imagers are the way to go, even if they are a little more expensive.

Two-dimensional QR (quick response code) barcodes can include 100 times more information than linear barcodes. However, they require 2D area imagers, which are the most expensive barcode scanners on the market. However, these scanners are suitable for both linear and 2D barcodes. Of course, you can also use smartphone or tablet applications.

The economic benefits of renting inventory scanners for your peak business

Renting inventory scanners represents an undeniable economic advantage. Short-term, it saves you from buying expensive barcode terminals that sit unused for part of the year. This frees up budgets for other items of expenditure. In addition, you reduce the overall amount of fixed assets.

Renting out your inventory also allows you to prepare a migration project to new equipment. Inventory optimisation often requires investment in PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants). The latest versions of these connected barcode scanners, however, require integration with a warehouse management software package. Short-term rental of barcode scanners allows you to experiment with different solutions

Rental to optimise stock management

Renting inventory scanners has real logistical advantages. There is no need to change your processes to implement them. The inventory scanners can be rented already set up according to your business software. They also include spare batteries, communication sockets, cables, etc., so that your teams can be up and running without delay.

The rental of handhelds for inventory can also be an all-inclusive service. In this case, you rent the terminals, but also their chargers and the accompanying inventory management software. In all cases, the service provider configures the barcode scanners so that they are ready for use.

Combining a rental of inventory terminals with a software package allows many operations to be automated. This avoids most human errors. It is also a good solution when you have to process a large number of assets at once.

In addition, companies that rent out have a large and diverse stock. This means that you can find the same equipment that is already deployed in your IT park. All your teams use the same equipment. No need for training, charging cables or protective covers.

Renting logistics handhelds also helps to make inventories more environmentally friendly. Just like buying refurbished equipment, renting IT equipment reduces your carbon footprint. This is part of a more responsible and sustainable way of consuming IT.

To combine all of these benefits, you need to choose a provider that holds large stocks. You need to be able to choose the inventory that match the rest of your IT equipment. You need to be able to choose the inventory

that match the rest of your IT equipment, so these companies also need to offer new and old generation terminals. Codeo allows you to rent more than 1000 scanners at a time, both new and old generation.