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Keells Super Uses Motorola for Real-Time Inventory of Goods

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Overview Keells Super is one of the largest super market chains in Sri Lanka. It is a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings PLC, a Sri Lankan blue chip conglomerate. In a single Keells Super store, there are between 12,000 - 15,000 individual items for sale. The IT team wanted to improve both the efficiency and accuracy of the stock taking process. Keells Super wanted to take advantage of mobile computing combined with Wi-Fi technology. Keells Super developed a real-time solution with Crosspoint based on Motorola MC3000 mobile computers, and the new mobile stock verification system was deployed across the Keells Super chain. It is a wireless stock take and verification system linked to SAP (ERP) which is the backend.

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Publisher	Motorola	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2008
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wireless, Wi-Fi (802.11)

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