Everyone knows the barcode scanner from the world of retail. It lets you carry out stocktakes quickly and manage your inventory live. MonCasierFrais had the idea of offering a barcode scanner to make restocking your automated lockers easier. How does this tool work? That's what we'll look at now.
Barcode scanner for automated lockers: the basics
Want to know the real value of a barcode scanner for food lockers? In fact, it comes into play at one specific moment: restocking your smart lockers. Let's look at this in more detail.
MonCasierFrais: what's the role of the barcode scanner?
A barcode scanner offered by MonCasierFrais is a handheld tool that lets you scan your products' barcodes when restocking your chilled lockers. Always keen to listen to our clients' needs, we added this tool to our food locker offer at the request of Boucherie Dynamique. This business, based in Chartres, wanted to optimise the restocking of its chilled lockers. The barcode scanner was the ideal solution, and we now offer it to all our clients. In concrete terms, this barcode scanner lets you:
- Link a product to a locker using each item's barcode.
- Update the information shown on the MonCasierFrais Locker Management Application and on the self-ordering kiosk.
- Avoid restocking errors by consistently matching the right product to the right locker.
- Save time when restocking a locker by automating the information update.
Available as an option when buying your chilled lockers
The barcode scanner is one of the 3 options we offer when you order your automated food lockers, alongside:
- Electronic shelf labels, which display live on the food lockers what you see in your MonCasierFrais app.
- Our different kiosks: Parisian style, bungalow, or minimalist shelter.
Want to order barcode scanners with your chilled lockers? Contact us to discover our solutions.
What are the benefits of the barcode scanner for food lockers?
The barcode scanner is particularly useful for chilled lockers, specifically for updating information about the food products on sale in the automated lockers. Let's focus on the strengths of our barcode scanner.
Time saved when restocking your chilled lockers
The barcode scanner offers a huge time saving when restocking automated lockers. Without this scanner, you need to:
1. Pre-arrange all your products using our preparation view
2. Access the admin interface on the self-ordering kiosk, or via the app, to physically open lockers and log the products digitally.
3. Fill each locker following the layout shown on the self-ordering kiosk, the app, or the electronic labels.
With the barcode scanner, the information-updating step goes much faster:
1. You enter the barcode number just once, when creating the product listing.
2. You pick up the scanner located in the self-ordering kiosk.
3. You scan the barcode to open the empty lockers, then the locker and product to link, sending the product information to the app and the kiosk.
4. Everything updates automatically, even the food locker's electronic label if it has one. You no longer need to manually enter the weight of each item sold by weight. Scanning the barcode automatically captures that information.
With the product scanner, there's no longer any need to restock your chilled lockers according to a layout set in advance using the “restocking” view in our app.
The barcode scanner reduces human error
Simply creating the barcode and scanning it with the barcode reader saves you valuable time. Better still: it reduces the risk of human error. Thanks to the automatic update of each locker's information, it's no longer possible to put a different product where another is indicated on the label. The update matches the contents of the chilled locker with the information shown on the self-ordering kiosk and electronic label. This gives you more flexibility and speed when restocking your smart lockers.
Buyers are then never caught out by a bad surprise, which helps improve customer satisfaction.
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Better best-before date management for your food products
With the barcode scanner, your food products' best-before date is as accurate as possible. The relevant data is included in the barcode you create for the item you're selling. As a result, the best-before date is automatically calculated from the time the QR code was generated. With this system, there's no longer any risk of misjudging the best-before date on a perishable product.
In conclusion
In conclusion, the MonCasierFrais barcode scanner stands out as an essential asset for anyone looking to optimise the restocking of their chilled lockers. Whether it's saving time, avoiding human error or ensuring better best-before date management, this scanner brings real, tangible day-to-day benefits. It doesn't just simplify the process of restocking automated lockers, it also helps strengthen customer satisfaction. If you're looking for a way to modernise how you manage fresh products, the barcode scanner could well be the tool you need.
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