BellHawk Software Benefits

Operational Benefits

1. Warns employees when they are about to make operational or data collection mistakes.

2. Enables managers to keep track of their materials, jobs, people and equipment in real-time so as to ensure on-time delivery of customer orders.

3. Enables compliance with Government and customer mandates for traceability, barcode labeling and RFID tagging.

4. Minimizes penalties for late delivery and cost of expedited shipping

5. Helps detect and prevent employee theft and product adulteration.

Technology Benefits

1. Uses best-of-breed Barcode and RFID technology.

2. Replaces the use of pencil and paper and labor–intensive manual data collection processes with the use of an integrated suite of computer software.

3. Integrated solution from the receiving dock to the shipping dock and beyond

4. Simple user interface minimizes training

5. Extensive real-time data validation minimizes mistakes

6. Interfaces with most ERP and accounting systems

7. Customizable to your specific needs

8. Store and Forward wireless technology ensures high reliability

9. Was developed to be compliant with FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and DoD Mil. Std. 129 and 130.

10. License Plate tracking of containers, including ASN data generation and nested container tracking.

11. Compliant with latest barcode and RFID standards

Financial Benefits

1. Pays for itself in a few months through reduction in operational costs.

2. Reduces inventory carrying cost due to better material planning and control

3. Improved labor and equipment utilization reduces cost

4. Eliminates cost of people performing manual data entry

5. Reduces cost of expedited delivery due to late production completion

6. Reduces penalties due to bad labeling or late delivery

7. Provides accurate cost data for each job or product

8. Cost effective licensing - only pay for transaction stations not per user

Please see "Computing the Return on Investment from Implementing a BellHawk System".

Applications of BellHawk Software

1. Tracking the status of Jobs, Materials, Labor and Equipment

• Replaces pencil and paper

• Minimizes mistakes

• Gives real–time information

2. Recording materials traceability data

• Enables organizations to meet Government and customer mandates

• Replaces pencil and paper

• Gives rapid recall of one–step forward and one–step backward traceability data

3. Operational mistake prevention

• Prevents using or shipping materials that have not passed QC inspection

• Prevents using or shipping wrong type of materials

• Prevents using or shipping wrong quantity of materials

4. Automatic generation of customer–specific shipment paperwork, barcode labels, RFID tags and advanced shipment notices.

• Enables organizations to meet customer specific mandates

• Avoids mistakes that come from "fat finger" data entry by shipping personnel.

• Avoids penalties from mistakes in paperwork, labeling and tagging

5. Tracking and expediting customer orders

• Replaces manual expediting process

• Gives real–time information for customer service

• Avoids penalties for late shipment and excessive overnight shipment costs

• Predicts when products will be shipped late so corrective action can be taken

6. Inventory tracking and validation

• Replaces time consuming manual cycle–counting process

• Gives detailed real–time view of inventory status

• Real–time inventory validation without shutting down operations

• Reduces inventory taking time from days to hours

7. Tracking of job and product costs

• Replaces pencil and paper data capture and keyboard entry into accounting and ERP systems

• Gives detailed activity based costing for each job and product

• Know what each job or product really costs and whether you are making a profit.