Warehousing & Distribution

Improve tracking, efficiency and profitability with bar code and RFID tag marking.

The challenges in the warehouse and distribution environment are manifold: Streamlining processes, tracking inventory, optimizing shipping and receiving, quickly addressing to changing customer, supplier, regulatory and compliance requirements. The overall goal is to reduce cost to make operations as efficient and profitable as possible.

Integrating bar code and RFID smart label printing into a Warehouse Management System (WMS), Supply Chain Management Systems (SMS), or Inventory Control System (ICS) helps address most of the challenges above. Bar code and RFID smart label printing adds speed and reliability to any warehouse and distribution operation.

Bar code and RFID Smart Labeling Challenge

Seamless connectivity options to thousands of industrial bar code printers are a major challenge of bar code and RFID smart labeling in a warehouse and distribution environment. Every make and model of printer places requirements on the software provider to uniquely support the very specific customer needs.

Because customers’ operational needs change and new print technology evolves on the market continuously, software developers find themselves chasing a seemingly endless list of driver enhancements, compliance labeling templates, labeling integration and data retrieving challenges and mobile label printing requirements.

Product and Solution Information

NiceLabel products enable warehouse managers to address the following needs:

  • System integration for label printing
  • Compliance label design and printing
  • Labeling workstations
  • Mobile label printing

Seamless WMS Integration for Label Printing

Use a print server approach to integrate bar code and RFID tag identification in your Warehouse Management System (WMS). Streamline operation by printing labels automatically from within a warehouse information or control system.

Product Solution: NiceWatch Enterprise

Enterprise solution for centralized integration of multi-threaded and high-volume label printing.

NiceWatch Enterprise is an intelligent print server that can be incorporated into any warehouse management systems. The WMS processes all transactions as designed but passes any printing transaction to NiceWatch Enterprise that will print the label.
NiceWatch Enterprise is scalable and warehouse managers can add any printer to the system at any time with no additional licensing fees. In addition, NiceWatch Enterprise offers many connectivity options that make it universally adaptable to the WMS.
NiceWatch Enterprise comes with the Enterprise Print Manger, which is a web-based module that enables operators to manage printing processes from any workstation on the warehouse network or through the Internet. This web-based administration tool makes remote monitoring and trouble shooting seamless to the operation, minimizing down time within the warehouse.

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Compliance Label Design and Printing

Use NiceLabel software to identify items from the pallet level to the single unit level. Various types of bar code and RFID smart labels are available, including graphics, for all your labeling needs. Labels can include SKU, UPC bar codes, color pictures, your company logo and more. The NiceLabel software provides label templates that support all leading compliance formats and bar code symbologies.

Product Solution: NiceLabel Print Center

A client-based enterprise-level labeling solution with centralized control over all NiceLabel clients in a network environment.
NiceLabel Print Center is a multi-user based application to add bar code and RFID tag design and printing to any warehouse operation. The WMS processes all transactions as designed but enables print stations to retrieve labeling data through a variety of database connectivity tools that are standard in the NiceLabel Print Center software. For example, labeling data can be retrieved from product-specific or customer-specific databases that will be incorporated into a variety of stock or custom templates for printing.

NiceLabel Print Center enables warehouse managers to add printers and workstations to the warehouse system at any time with no additional licensing fees. The Enterprise Print Manger, which is standard with NiceLabel Print Center, enables multi warehouse operations to be managed from one interface. The Enterprise Print Manager is a web-based interface that makes remote monitoring and trouble shooting seamless to the operation, minimizing down time within the warehouse.

The NiceLabel Print Center includes all the modules and features of the NiceLabel Suite edition (see labeling workstations).

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Labeling Workstations

Enable warehouse operators to custom design and print bar code and RFID smart labels on demand. NiceLabel offers scalability and flexibility of label design and printing with little software training.

Product Solution: NiceLabel Suite

Complete software solution for any type of label design and printing requirement.

NiceLabel Suite makes any workstation a labeling operation. NiceLabel Suite can be a simple approach to bar code and RFID smart label generation without extensive software training. The NiceLabel Suite includes the following label design and printing modules:

  • NiceLabel Pro: Label designer to design new product templates or customer shipping compliance labels within minutes. Address complicated labeling compliance requirements with the advanced tool set in NiceLabel Pro.
  • NicePrint and NiceForm: Easily print labels with a simplified user interface that includes advanced features such as database connectivity, label preview and linked forms. Standard or personalized interfaces combine data and label templates in a way that makes even complicated printing requirements simple for all warehouse operators.

NiceLabel Suite is available as a single desktop license or as a module of the NiceLabel Print Center for label design and printing from an enterprise network environment with multiple concurrent users.

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Mobile Label Printing

Integrate mobile label printing into your warehouse logistics. Optimize the flexibility of unique product identification with a mobile device and print labels either directly to a mobile printer or to any printer on the warehouse network. Deploy your desktop printing application to any compatible Windows mobile device to improve warehouse and distribution processes.

Product Solution: Pocket NiceLabel

The label printing software for Windows CE mobile devices. Generate labels from the same device used to automate your warehouse. No longer transition to a workstation simply because you need to print a label.

Use Pocket NiceLabel to uniquely identify products when there is no access to desktop printing hardware. Use NiceLabel Suite to design and export label templates to the mobile device and print the labels to a mobile printer or desktop printer connected to the network.

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