A Guide to Barcoding Inventory

Barcoding inventory is an efficient way to manage a large amount of stock. It’s also recommended if your inventory contains high value items that need to be carefully tracked and maintained. In both cases, barcodes are the starting point for efficient inventory management and a good way to save heaps of time and money.

Barcodes are extremely useful but it’s important to approach using them in the right way. This guide covers how to get started and gives plenty of best practice tips for creating and using a barcode inventory system. Follow the advice and it will help you maximise the efficiencies to be gained with barcoding...

Supporting Covid-safe Environments in Higher Education

It’s been several months now since campuses closed their doors to students and moved their teaching and learning online. But while this new regime still requires a lot of thought and focus, much attention has been diverted to the next big challenge - the autumn semester and getting students back on campus.

A Covid-safe environment demands students’ movements and activities conform to new hygiene and social distancing measures. Not least affected is the use of specialised equipment which is an essential part of many degree programmes. So how will equipment lending services be efficiently and safely organised for both students and staff going forward? Below we provide a list of areas to consider...