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The quick response codes will be based on the SAP Mobile Inventory Management system.

Zaporizhstal Integrated Iron and Steel Works has now announced that it will be among the first iron and steel plants in Ukraine to introduce a new system using QR codes for finished products that is based on the SAP Mobile Inventory Management system.

The system allows for the automatic operation of inventory procedures as well as the shipment of finished goods.

Among the steps that are going to be taken in order to be able to implement the automated SAP process management system is the use of QR codes in an overall finished product system that has been based SAP IM. Zaporizhstal specialists have been working on creating the new product labeling process that uses the quick response codes, for the last three months. This will allow the finished products to have labels that are readable using scanning devices.

The system will allow for the better and easier decision making in technical areas, particularly in terms of the data tracking within the Zaporizhstal information database. There the information can be used for more effective and efficient order filling.

The belief is that the QR codes will simplify, automate, and improve the overall inventory and order filling process.

According to the Zaporizhstal financial director, Ruslan Bozhko, one of the components in the company’s overall efforts to enhance production efficiency has been to upgrade the infrastructural elements, as well as the actual industrial process, itself. He said that the “QR-coding system facilitates supply logistics for our employees and consumers. The system like this was introduced for the first time on iron and steel plant in Ukraine. I’m sure that our system will become a standard for other enterprises during introduction.”

Bozhko also explained that the new system using QR codes will help to reduce the inventory tracking and management time by 60 percent. At the same time it is expected that this will considerably reduce the possibility and level of theft that the company has been experiencing. Moreover, it will provide an overall simplification of processes that will then be able to be accomplished at a much faster rate. This system will speed up the completion of operator tasks within the warehouse for finished products and will greatly improve the accuracy and speed of record keeping.

The standard quick response code is commonplace, but is typically considered to be quite ugly.

Most smartphone using consumers have seen QR codes, regardless of whether or not they actually know what they are or have ever scanned one in order to find out where it goes, but the overall consensus is that they are relatively ugly to the human eye.

Quikkly, a U.K. startup, believes that they have redesigned these barcodes to be more useful and attractive.

The company was founded by Ken Johnstone, who is the founder and former CEO of INQ Mobile, and Fergal Walker, formerly of Facebook EMEA as the head of Mobile BD. Quikkly has been created in order to try to make it possible for QR codes to be useful and appealing to both people and their mobile devices in order to boost their use and overcome some of the barriers that have been standing in their way until now.

The QR codes that have been developed by the company have been called the “Action Tag”.

Those Action Tag barcodes are the company’s own proprietary form of technology that is compatible with the Android or iOS version of the Quickkly app. They have been designed to encourage action online, for instance, listening to a Spotify track, following someone on Twitter, adding a new contact to an address book, or connecting with a public WiFi network.

What makes the Action Tags different from the majority of quick response codes is that they provide the human user of the device with a better understanding of what they will actually receive through the scanning. One of the primary drawbacks of a QRcode is that unless the marketer actually prints it along with a statement that informs the device user as to what will happen upon scanning, there is no way for them to know. The design of the Action Tag includes both the barcode to be scanned by the device and an icon that indicates the type of action that will be launched as a result of that scan.

According to Walker, who is now the CEO of Quikkly and who discussed their proprietary alternative to QR codes, “When you see interesting stuff online and there’s a button to interact with it, you can click on it and something happens immediately. ‘Like’ on Facebook, ‘Follow’ on Twitter, add to Basket, listen to the song. In the physical world, it’s considerably more difficult.” However, he added that “Quikkly removes the hassle and makes it as simple as it is online.”