[geeks] Warehouse Handhelds

[Mark Benson]

Dunno if you guys have any experience of warehouse handheld systems,
here's my situation:

We have a small stores and need stock control. We need to be able to
check in and out stock and also stocktake the stores without being
tethered to a PC. We have no bar codes, and implementing that would be
impractical at this stage (our suppliers don't even use them).

I was looking at toughened handhelds running WinCE. I don't like having
a WLAN in the building for security reasons so I'd like some way of
logging transactions on the handheld then dumping that top a PC via the
cradle.

Buying a solution in is beyond our means, so our usual policy applies.
Buy the hardware and write the software. Problem is I've never developed
proper software, let alone for WinCE...

Any alternative (apart from paper)?

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Mark Benson
http://markbenson.org/blog