Bar code based inventory tracking and control systems are a source of cost reduction, better business practices and competitive advantage. There are two main uses of bar codes for internal inventory management. The first is in work-in-process inventories which can assist wood products producers with recovery rate calculations and the second is to establish finished and rough inventory tracking and control.
This program was developed specifically for small to medium sized secondary wood manufacturers to offer inventory and labor information systems that only large companies can generally afford. It has been tested in a millworking company with about 30 employees.
The source code for this program was written by Donald Russell, Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Systems student and student worker at the Louisiana Forest Products Laboratory
