Handheld, scanner and shop floor
The screens your stores and production people actually use — on a phone or a tablet, at the rack and at the machine. A scan, a quantity, one button, and Intacct knows before they have put the scanner down.
The floor does not happen at a desk
Stock moves where the stock is. A pallet is booked in at the door, components are drawn at the store hatch, a run is confirmed at the machine. None of that happens next to a keyboard.
So it gets written down and keyed in later — by someone who was not there, from handwriting that may or may not be legible, at the end of a shift or the end of a week.
Every hour between the movement and the keystroke is an hour your stock figure is wrong, and a chance for the note to be lost entirely.
A scan, a quantity, one button
The shop-floor screens are built for a phone with a scanner rather than squeezed onto one. Big targets, short flows, nothing on screen that the person holding it does not need.
Receiving
Scan or find the purchase order at the door, book in what actually arrived, and put it away.
Issue to production
Draw components against a works order at the store hatch, without a requisition slip in between.
Confirm a run
Finish production at the machine. Components off, finished goods on, costed as it happens.
Picking
Pick against a customer order and relieve the stock as it leaves, not when the paperwork catches up.
Transfers
Move stock between locations and record it standing in front of the rack it came from.
Counting
Work a count on the device rather than on a clipboard that gets typed up afterwards.
The same system, in a different shape
This is the point most mobile modules miss. The shop-floor screens are not a separate product that syncs with the real one later — they are the same site, building the same documents, through the same posting code.
Nothing to install
No app store, no device management, no rollout. Anything that can open a browser can work the floor.
No separate mobile licence
There is nothing extra to licence and nothing second to support. It is not sold alongside the system; it is the system.
One posting path
A movement recorded at the machine reaches Intacct exactly as one recorded at a desk does. There is no second implementation to keep in step.
Rejections come back to the operator
If Intacct refuses the movement it is rolled back, and the person holding the scanner reads Intacct's own reason on the screen in front of them.
The floor is not feeding a system. The floor is the system.
Scanning
The screens resolve a scan directly, so a barcode lands in the field it belongs in and nobody types a part number they could have scanned. That is the part that makes the difference on a cold morning in a goods-in bay.
Printing the labels themselves — what goes on them, what size, which printer — is setup work during implementation rather than integration work.
Every movement carries a name
Everyone gets their own login rather than a shared password taped to a terminal. Each receipt, issue, pick and production confirmation records who did it and when, and that record cannot be edited afterwards by anyone.
It is also what makes the quality records worth anything: an inspection signed by a named person, on a calibrated instrument, at a known time.
Three things to check before go-live
- Coverage where the work happens
- The screens are a web application and need a connection. Goods-in bays, cold stores and the far end of a workshop are the usual dead spots — worth walking the site with a handset before go-live rather than discovering it on the first morning.
- Devices and how they are held
- Any phone or tablet works. What matters more is whether people are wearing gloves, whether the device needs a lanyard or a mount, and where it charges.
- What is already labelled
- Scanning only helps where there is something to scan. Knowing which of your items, bins and pallets already carry a barcode shapes the first phase.
The gap between a movement happening and the system knowing about it goes from days to seconds.
That gap is where wrong stock figures, unexplained variances and bought-what-we-already-had all come from.