NECS designed its entrée.UPC product to bring the power of barcodes to your foodservice operation. The cost savings that entrée.UPC will bring you in the form of a reduced warehouse and office staff, speed and accuracy, will pay for itself in a very short time. NECS customers who have upgraded their operation to barcode scanning, would never think of running their business any other way.

The entrée.UPC system sets itself apart from other scanning systems because it was designed to read just about anyones barcode label. Even though you may have thousands of suppliers and varying amounts of information in a specific barcode label, the entrée.UPC barcode scanning system can handle that with ease. This includes products that don't have labels, or labels that are damaged. The entrée.UPC system will even print barcode labels if you like.

Receiving

Your flow of inventory starts with the receiving process into your warehouse and this is where you'll see the first benefits of using entrée.UPC. As inventory is accurately received and your purchase orders are updated, what used to take multiple steps, now quickly takes you only one.

•  Stops receiving errors on purchase orders.
•  Print a copy of weights / qty scanned and compare to suppliers invoice.
•  Stops supplier overcharges.
•  Cuts employee overtime and labor.
•  Makes theft visible and risky.
•  "Now I print a copy of the weights scanned.. and demand credit for the overcharges.   The money we saved on this alone, paid for the system."
    - Jeff Stein, Owner, Ideal Meats

Physical Inventory

The speed and accuracy of doing a physical inventory is important to the success of your foodservice operation. The entrée.UPC takes this procedure, and makes it a user-friend, intuitive tool that makes your warehouse staff's job easier and faster. It also needs to be done on a less often basis.

•  Makes physical inventory fast and accurate while eliminating mistakes.
•  Cuts employee overtime and labor.
•  Makes theft visible and risky.

Invoicing

Automating the process of picking product for invoices is where you'll see the most immediate and outstanding benefits when you start using entrée.UPC.
It saves time in the warehouse and even the office, as catchweights, shortages, and other adjustments are made on the scanner, without the need for your office staff to edit the invoice. Orders are picked and on the way to the customer with accurate invoices in a fraction of the time it takes you now.

•  Serve your customers faster through improved productivity in the warehouse
   and front office.
•  Eliminate order picking errors, including over/under ships, wrong item ships, etc.
•  Improve employee morale with a user friendly tool that helps them do their
   job easier and faster.
•  Improve your reputation for reliability by having accurate orders that go out
   correctly the first time.
•  Eliminates customer undercharges.
•  Reduces customer order shortage claims.
•  Reduces customer "special runs" to correct critical order errors.
•  Reduces excessive employee overtime
•  Catchweights are scanned, making it unnecessary for office to manually enter.
•  Makes theft visible and risky.

Scanners

Just as NECS designed entrée.UPC to scan anyones barcode label, it also designed it to work on a wide range of scanners. This provides you with plenty of opportunity depending on the needs of your warehouse and budget. The barcode scanners are actually handheld computers with a bright, easy to read screen and highly accurate laser scanner. The scanners are radio frequency based, so there aren't any wires to tie you down. You'll get instant reads whether your scanning on the loading dock, or deep in your walk in freezer.

•  Radio frequency barcode scanners let you scan throughout your facility
   without wires.
•  Works in warehouse, cooler, freezer and dock areas.
•  Will work on a varity of manufacturers scanners and models.
•  Bright, easy to read screen lets your warehouse staff easily use the scanner.
•  Scanner provides instant barcode reads.
•  Scanner is tied into your NECS entrée system in real time.