Kraft Foods – Mobile Receipt Printers Cited in June, 2002 Business Solutions

It was time for Kraft Foods to improve its mobile data collection. The company selected VAR Taylored Technologies Corp. (Chanhassen, MN) to come up with a solution for better mobile computing and receipt printing.

Increasing Kraft Sales

Kraft sales reps visit retail outlets daily. One of the things the reps do is obtain information on damaged or expired merchandise. It would take hours for the reps to key the information in Kraft’s old data collection terminals and often there were mistakes. What Kraft required was an improved system that would decrease the time spent on processing merchandise that cannot be sold and increase the time spent on making sales.

Taylored chooses Extech Mobile Receipt Printing System

Stephanie Roussel-Dupre writes “Taylored Technologies recognised that Kraft needed to automate is processes by scanning the barcode on each item. It also needed to print a receipt, whilst still enabling the entire solution to fit into a briefcase and be mobile.

Taylored Technologies built Kraft’s solution around the BTH-6000 Handheld Barcode Terminal from DENSO ID Systems, now TD SCAN (Southfield, MI). For the project, Taylored Technologies looked outside its existing vendor base and found Extech Instruments Corp. (Waltham, MA) as the mobile printer provider.

The VAR like Extech’s Series 2000i printers for their sped (1.5 to 2.5 lines per second) and compact size. Another important feature of the receipt printer was its ability to accept communications from the scanner wirelessly via infra-red data transmission”.

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