Honeywell AIDC Eyes LoT for Retail and E-commerce Sectors

Aseem Joshi

As a regional head for Honeywell’s Sensing & Productivity Solutions business, Aseem Joshi has been developing strategies and spearheading sales and marketing teams to grow business. Aseem came to Honeywell from Eaton, where he worked in various roles, including Plant Manager, Marketing Manager and APAC Marketing Strategy Manager for their Hydraulics business. 

Prior to Eaton, he was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company and later associated with IBM as an Industrial Engineer. He has an MBA from INSEAD, MS from Virginia Tech and a BE from Pune University. Married and having 2 children, Aseem is currently based in Pune.

Aseem speaks to K Ramanathan on Honeywell’s AIDC market in India, notable product launches, and how technology can help retailers meet omni-channel challenges. Excerpts…

What is the current market size and demand for AIDC products in India? What is Honeywell’s contribution in terms of meeting the demands?

According to “India Barcode Scanners and Printers Market Forecast & Opportunities, 2017” the revenues of the barcode industry in India are likely to grow at a large Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of around 30% during the period 2011-2017. This presents many opportunities for companies in the AIDC space, including Honeywell. Going forward, Honeywell AIDC is at the forefront of Internet of Things (IoT) for retail and e-commerce sector.

Honeywell has been and continues to working with our channel, our solution partners and with a number of customers across Indian sub-continent to identify and address their business challenges, through automation. One example includes India Post, who we are helping to automate their 130,000 post offices across the country. By integrating scanning technology, Honeywell assisted India Post to leverage our world-class AIDC technology.

How do you envisage Honeywell’s overall growth in the next five years in India?

Honeywell has been in India since almost 100 years, successfully working with our customers in a diverse range of sectors across India, supporting growth through technology and innovation. We have almost 15,000 employees (including 8,000 engineers) in country and physical presence across 50 cities.  Our 7 manufacturing locations and 5 global technology & engineering centers will continue to contribute to our commitment and growth along with our customers.

The retail sector is a priority for Honeywell Sensing & Productivity solutions. This is because Indian retailers, 3PLs and transport and delivery businesses here, like their counterparts around the world, have seen rapid growth and increasing operational pressures as a result of the rise of omni-channel. The increasing number of consumer shopping options, including online, in-store and click and collect, as well as the small piece orders, the increased number of delivery destinations that have to be reached in shorter timeframes, pose challenges for local retail businesses. 

To help address these operational pressures Honeywell will increasingly work with Indian retailers so that they have the right systems and technologies in place to keep pace with the omni-channel.   We are in a vantage position to enable brick-and-mortar retailers, be it neighbourhood groceries or hypermarkets, adopt technologies that are most suitable to their needs : bee it around from POS to mobile couponing, queue-busting to cross-selling and from in-store to back-end.

Honeywell Sensing & Productivity Solutions will also in the coming years be concentrating on developing and delivering end-to-end solutions that enable seamless measures, controls and collection of data across all business systems and devices. Business connectivity and data collection allows for optimisation of workflow processes and worker productivity and accuracy.

Honeywell will leverage our heritage of industry leading technology and innovation, and work with our partners to invest in hardware, software, cloud technology and analytics solutions that best support true business connectivity.

What are the latest offerings from Honeywell for Indian POS market?

Being at the forefront of innovations in custom-engineered sensors, switches and controls, and productivity solutions built around high performance data collection hardware for more than 40 years, Honeywell Sensing & Productivity Solutions prides itself on delivering best practice technologies to businesses across India.

Honeywell’s acquisitions of Intermec and Datamax-O’Neil highlight our ambition for continuous investments that strengthen the depth of our technology solutions and portfolio. Today, Honeywell offers the most comprehensive range of products in the industry, with over 50,200 products, including controls, global tracking, printers, scanners, mobility, RFID, Voice solutions, sensors, software and electromechanical.

Honeywell Sensing & Productivity Solutions allow businesses to manage their data, assets and workers in order to optimise performance and processes in every corner of their facility.

Our Orbit 7120 presentation scanners and Eclipse 5145 are already brands by themselves! Last year our thermal desktop printer PC42t was also very well accepted by the end-users.

This year, Honeywell is releasing a number of exciting technologies in the retail space, including the Solaris 7980g scanner, which meets the needs of the growing mobile payment trend. The scanner has the ability to read 2D barcodes off mobile phones, as shoppers increasingly want to use their mobile devices in place of credit cards and loyalty cards.

For retailers after an affordable scanner, Honeywell has also released the Voyager 1602g pocket 2D Bluetooth scanner. The ergonomically designed Voyager 1602g scanner can be coupled with tablet-based retail POS systems, mobile POS solutions, inventory management, backroom/stockroom and in-store customer engagement.

Can you tell us how technology can be a game changer for retail sector?

Honeywell solutions are designed to help retailers compete in an increasingly competitive environment by increasing store associate productivity, reducing operating expenses and increasing customer loyalty.

Honeywell’s innovative solutions are primed for many key retail applications including store operations, fixed Point of Sale, omni-channel fulfillment, in-store mobile and warehouse.

The retail worker of today is not tied to one station and is instead moving throughout the store. These workers need technologies, such as the Voyager 1602g, which enable mobile productivity and accuracy with ease. A mobile barcode scanner has the power to not only increase productivity and accuracy, but also allow workers to interact with customers and provide a much higher level of service.

Customer service is also being improved with the launch of mobile payment offerings like Apple Pay and Google Wallet. This means customers and retailers benefit from a faster and more seamless check-out experience. With the use of a 2D barcode scanner such as the Solaris 7980g, consumers can now pay for their goods with a simple tap, while simultaneously earning loyalty points, discounts and promotions directly to their device.

Those retailers who invest in 2D barcode technology will be best placed to provide the best in-store shopping experience for their customers as mobile devices become more commonplace for payment.

Also published in: JusTransact.com

Budget 2016: Indian Retail Sector Feels Let Down by FM

Chennai, India: March 14, 2016: India's Federal Budget for the 2016 fiscal though focused more on farm sector and gave a balanced outlook to other industries, stakeholders of Asia's fast-growing retail sector believe that the Budget did not offer any direct proposal to boost the sentiments of the business community but the sops offered to other sectors will have their implications on the retail sector’s long-term growth.

India’s retail sector, which is the third largest employment generator after agriculture and construction industry, adds considerable momentum to the country’s GDP year-on-year. According to industry sources, though there are no big-ticket announcements in the budget to add fuel to the retail sector’s growth, certain indirect measures proposed by the Finance Minister will improve the buying sentiments among the middle-class, and add up to the growth of retail and allied sectors.

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Industry.co.uk and Press Release Point.

Real Estate Regulatory Bill empowers buyers to take on errant builders

The much-awaited Real Estate Regulatory Bill has now broken the last hurdle to become a concrete legislation when it was passed by the Upper House of the Parliament – Rajya Sabha on Thursday much to the relief of home buyers who now got a legal arm to protect their interests.

The Bill has various provisions which can protect the interest of buyers, who have remained mute victims for years due to irregularities in the real estate dealings by unscrupulous builders across the nation. The provisions of the bill now will make the developers accountable and also bring in the much-needed transparency in terms of dealings and quality of the products.

Indian real estate has so far been remained unregulated which has made many becoming fly-by-night builders to take advantage of the gullible home buyers. Big builders are now happy because this bill will regulate the industry and cut-to-size the small-time developers who account for more than 60 per cent of realty transactions in India.

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Also published in Press Release Point.

Be Smart to Scan Barcodes on the Go

Barcode scanners have made life easier for traders and shoppers alike. How exactly a scanner works, decodes information from the black and white strips on the grocery or any merchandise and sends the collected information to the POS terminal to generate bills? It’s interesting to know about it. 

Ever since the invention of the barcode technology about six decades ago, there have been continuous efforts to make the technology faster, reliable, trendier, user-friendly and more customer centric.

Shoppers are more worried about accurate scanning and faster checkouts. In true sense, no shopper or for that matter even staff at checkouts, would really bother to understand the complexities involved in scanning barcodes to printing bills. Technology has made the complex process smooth, sophisticated and faster.

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Robust growth for mPOS market in India

According to a new study by Transparency Market Research, mPOS shipments worldwide are expected to witness a 20-fold growth of 245.21 million units by 2022 from 11.87 million units recorded in 2014.

The research titled “Mobile Point-of-Sale (mPOS) Market Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2015 – 2022,” focused on the global market with an in-depth analysis of four countries namely India, China, Mexico and Brazil. The market is estimated to expand at a CAGR of 47 % during the forecast period, the report said.

The research took three parameters into account -- Solution, technology and end-users by considering related things which include:  Card Reader Accessories, Integrated Card Reader Solutions, Hybrid Technology Solutions, Magnetic-Stripe, EMV Chip and Pin, Near Field Communication (NFC), Biometrics, Chip and Sign, Restaurant, Hospitality, Healthcare, Retail, Warehouse/Distribution, Entertainment, Transportation, Government and Consumer Utility Services.

The global mPOS market is expected to witness a tremendous growth outside Europe and North America, considering the untapped prospective markets in developing nations. The widespread usage of Internet and technology in emerging markets are the major factors which are driving the mPOS market. 

India and China to rule mPOS market

India, being the fast emerging market among Asian peers, is expected to see a leap-frog growth in mPOS shipments with an expected CAGR of 55.8% during 2014 – 2022. The growth can be attributed to the presence of large number of small merchants, widespread usage of smart phones and Internet penetration in the remote areas of the country, and proactive government policies. 

Moreover, leading banks in India have launched NFC-enabled credit and debit cards, which further funnelled the growth. Further, China is expected to grow at a CAGR of 53.3% in terms of mPOS shipments during the period. Government policy for branchless banking and the efforts to create mobile micro-ATMs in rural areas in China will further drive the mPOS market. 

The report said, China will increase in shipments of NFC mPOS solutions, due to the advantages of NFC technology over the older mPOS.

Emerging economies 

In the coming years, Mexico and Brazil are going to be the other emerging economies for mPOS market considering the untapped potential in the region in and around the nation. While banks in Mexico take efforts to promote card payments by joining hands with mobile payment technology vendors, for Brazil its retailers of various sizes would play a major role in adopting mPOS solutions. The large adoption of mPOS in developed markets such as Europe and North America is expected to grow due to the replacement of outdated mPOS devices.

Transparency Market Research (TMR) is a leading market intelligence firm providing global business reports and services.

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New Integrated Industrial Township to Adorn Uttar Pradesh Realty Map

Industrial townships are developed, not only to meet the growing demands of manufacturing sectors, which add up to the economic growth, but also create huge employment opportunities in the respective region besides boosting infrastructure and new residential settlements. These townships are self-sustainable where people enjoy all the basic amenities while residing closer to their workplaces.

Uttar Pradesh, which has several such industrial corridors to its credit, is all set to witness a world-class integrated industrial township coming up in Greater Noida as part of the much-awaited Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project.

Written this article for Gozoop.com

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Welcome to new Indian hospitality!

The hospitality industry in India has seen a complete makeover during the last decade clocking unprecedented growth with a CAGR of 12 per cent year-on-year and achieving a significant flow of foreign exchange into the industry. According to an estimate, the sector’s direct contribution to GDP accounts for US$ 44.2 billion in 2015 and expects to surpass US$60 billion in 2020.

Though several factors including growing consumer demands/needs, expanding economy and government policies can be attributed for its explosive growth, the one which does the behind the scene operation is undoubtedly the technological evolutions at the point of business transactions, which transformed the industry to met ever-changing consumer needs.

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Also published in: Merinews.com ; IndustryToday.co.uk; PressreleasePoint

Union Budget 2016: Real estate sector looks up to FM for revival

It’s Budget time again, and Indian real estate sector is yet again pinning on the hope for a slew of measures from the government which will see the revival of the struggling sector. 

While most of builders and realty experts believe that measures to improve consumer sentiments through income tax rebates and reduction in borrowing rates can put the life back into the system, others want the government to take long term measures by implementing the much-talked about REITs, Special Residential Zones and Real Estate Mutual Funds (REMFs) to make the real estate more vibrant. Here are the excerpts.

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This article also published in Merinews.com

Five best POS channels to engage with customers

Technology has indeed altered the way businesses are operating these days. So, if you want sustainable growth in your business, apart from having a great business acumen and enough funds, you should also be a tech-savvy person, else your business would stagnate and customers might migrate to “comfort zones’ offered by your competitors.

Hence, with New Year ushering, why not try some fantastic options offered by the technology at Point of Sale (POS) counters, which would, not only help enhance customer experience, but also boost sales manifold?

Having seamless POS channels

There are different ways your consumers can interact to do business with you. Some of them can come directly at your brick-and-mortar shop while others can order through telephone, e-mails, contact via chat rooms, or mobile apps. Sometimes your customers use multiple channels to compete the activities. For example, they would have enquired at your physical store but went back and ordered through your online store or vice versa. So, it is imperative that all these channels be tuned well for seamless customer interaction and execution of sales.

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Also published in Merinews.com

Now invisible barcodes to dodge counterfeits at Point of Sale

Barcodes came into existence half a century ago to speed up the check out process, enhance customer experience and promote businesses.

But the booming retail sector, ever increasing demand for faster check-out alternatives and increasing incidents of counterfeit items despite barcoding them, have forced technologists to strive for a fool-proof, reliable and still faster mode of dispatching goods at Point of Sale (POS) counters.

If the new technology unveiled by Beaverton-based Digimarc Corp goes viral, the black and white stripes will become extinct in another few years, to be replaced by a new concept called “invisible barcodes”, which are not only reliable and reduce the chances of malpractices, but also help faster checkouts.

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This gun silently hunts down barcodes at warehouses!

Warehouse management, which forms the backbone of distribution network across India, is all set for a complete makeover, thanks to the advancement in barcode technology which has taken an unassailable control over the effective, safe and error-free dissemination of millions of consignments across the country.

During the first half of 2015 (January-June), around 6 million sq ft was taken up by warehousing space occupiers across the country, a growth of nearly 60 per cent compared to the corresponding period in 2014.

The booming E-commerce sector, improving domestic economy, effective legislative reforms and off course, technological innovations in warehousing management have played pivotal roles for the staggering growth of Logistics and Industrial Market in India, feel experts.

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POS to Scale up Indian Retail Sector Growth in 2016

The fast evolving consumer preferences associated with advancement in technology has made the Indian retail sector one of the most vibrant among the Asian peers with the market indicators forecasting the sector to cross US $ 1 trillion by 2020 from the present $600 billion riding on 13 per cent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR).

While government policies and macro economic conditions act as catalysts, technology plays a pivotal role in revamping the sector towards fast-track development. Thanks to advancement in Point of Sales (POS) technology, sales counters across India are witnessing complete makeover with traditional retail giving way to organized business environment clocking exponential growth. Automating operations by brick-and-mortar businesses with cashless transactions for enhanced customer experience is gaining ground across Indian cities.

Point of Sale hardware products such as barcode scanners, thermal receipt printers, electronic cash registers, barcode printers, Touch POS monitors, mobile/tablet POS and Cloud POS are in great demand with manufacturers expecting good sales in 2016 due to improved market conditions, feel experts.

Bhaskar Venkatraman, Founder and Director of JusTransact.com, an e-commerce portal offering POS technology products to retail and non-retail businesses in India, says: “Indian retail sector has finally taken wings riding on POS technology to make new strides in the coming years. POS is one of the major growth ingredients for retail sector. With government opening up FDI in retail sector and Goods and Service Tax (GST) Bill becoming a reality in 2016, the POS market is expected to witness unprecedented growth by 2020 clocking two million POS installations from the current one million mark.”

However, on global perspective as per a 2014 estimate, of the 250 billion cashless transactions, India accounts for only 0.2 per cent through 1.2 million POS installations. With Reserve Bank of India (RBI) relaxing rules to allow cash withdrawals through POS machines across India, the demand for POS machines are going to go up further in the coming year, opines Bhaskar.

According to RBI Deputy Governor R Gandhi, “If India needs to reach the average levels of BRIC nations, we need to have another 20 million POS terminals from the present 1.2 million machines connecting rural and urban areas. With India having more than one billion mobile connections, the retail payments in the next five years would be increasingly driven through mobile payments, the top RBI official lamented.

Recently, several state governments including Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh have started introducing POS machines at their fair price shops to reduce pilferage of food items meant for public distribution. These hand-held POS devices with biometric fingerprint scanner will soon find place in thousands of ration shops across the country.

Expressing optimistic about POS market in India, D Bhaskaramoorthy, Vice-President – Sales, Posiflex Technology (India) Pvt. Ltd, one of the leading POS hardware brands in India, says, "With FDI opening up for Retail sector and GST implementation looking brighter in 2016, we can foresee a potential growth for retail segment vis-à-vis POS and peripherals in India as more and more stores are expected to automate their business to enhance sales and back-end operations.”  

Implementation of GST will enable easier movement of goods across the nation, thereby benefiting retail operations pan-India, he says.

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NprRetailNews.com.

Indian mPOS Set to Revolutionize Retail Sector

Indian retail market is evolving at a rapid pace riding on technology innovations and customers' changing preferences for superior shopping experience.

A lot of changes had happened during the last decade at Point of Sale (POS) counters as customers increasingly prefer cash-less transactions, and businesses have readily adopted right payment system for faster check-outs and better payment management.

One of the best ways the brick-and-mortar retailers can handle faster check-outs at their stores is via mobile-POS devices. These devices are like hand-held smart phones that are capable of accepting payments through cards, providing instant receipts and storing data for managing inventory, sales and other back-end business functions.

India, with close to 500 million credit/debit card holders and 700 million smart phone users, set to trigger cash-less transactions through mobile POS devices and online transactions, say analysts.

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JusTransact plays Santa, brings in attractive POS bundles to customers

Chennai, December 24, 2015: JusTransact.com, the e-commerce market leader offering exclusive Point-of-Sale (POS) products and technology to Indian retail and non-retail B2B segment, has opened up Santa's bag of goodies to customers by introducing attracting bundle offers on various POS products.

Unfolding the bundle offers coinciding with the year end festival season, Bhaskar Venkatraman, the founder and Director of JusTransact.com, an e-commerce venture of Millennium Group, said: "We have come up with attractive combo offers on POS products to suit various business needs and applications. This will help traders to get complete POS solutions for their chosen business at one place. For example, we have hardware along with software in a bundle offer exclusively for F & B sector. While saving sizeable amount, buyers can get a ready-to-plug-in system for their new business initiatives without worrying about software part."

JusTransact has introduced five different bundles of POS machines in attractive combo offers to meet the needs of various retail and non-retail sectors. In combo and other individual offers, the discount varies from 10-20 per cent with the highest saving going up to Rs 13000.

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JusTransact Releases first Explainer Video on POS

Chennai, December 24, 2015: JusTransact.com, a B2B e-commerce market place exclusively for Point-of-sale (POS) products and technology, today unveiled an informative and educative video on POS products and technology in an effort to create awareness among the trading community on the advantages of automating their business.

Releasing the info-graphic video, the Founder and Director of JusTransact.com Mr Bhaskar Venkatraman, said:  “Indian retail sector has been evolving at a faster pace trying to match customers’ growing demands and technological advancement. Unfortunately, more than 90 per cent of the over 12 million retailers in India are yet to automate their businesses thereby denying the enhanced shopping experience to their customers. The video has been conceived to make them understand the importance of using POS technology to remain competitive in business while satisfying customers’ needs”

JusTransact Video

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DNA Barcoding can Prevent Disease Outbreaks

Once used exclusively to 'identify' products to ease business transactions and back-end operations, Barcodes have come a long way and have forayed into every consumer sector - be it health, hospitality, auto-mobile, retail or non-retail platforms.

But wherever it is, barcode's primary function as 'identity provider' has not changed. Seeing its vast advantage and potential, scientists are using barcodes for various purposes. While hospitals use barcodes on test tubes and patients to prevent mix-ups at labs and operation theatres, biologists found extensive use of barcodes in DNA labeling'.

Every single species, whether plants or animals, can be classified and coded for future references through an innovative identification technology known as DNA barcoding.

Recently zoology department of Calcutta University has joined hands with the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project, which has 25 nations in its fold, to form a digital database of DNA signatures, which can identify any organism, plant or animal on earth in a jiffy. Undoubtedly, the University department would be eastern India's hub for iBOL. 

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Parliament Lockjam: Will Real Estate Regulatory Bill Ever See the Light?

The tall climes of steady upward growth are notwithstanding, the real estate sector in India, which is the second largest employment generator after agriculture, has been in doldrums for the last few years owing to economic downturn with developers looking for a ‘miracle’ which can turn the tide for the sector in 2016.

There have been a few positive developments in the recent past such as opening up of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), introduction of REITs and recently, the cabinet passing the much-awaited Real Estate Regulatory Bill which have created positive vibes among the real estate community.

Though the success of the first two initiatives can be gauged on the basis of investment scenario, which again depends on the economic growth, the enactment of real estate regulatory Bill as law is expected to add the much required impetus to the sector’s growth vehicle in the year 2016, feel real estate experts. 

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The article also appeared in Merinews.com

After Flood Havoc its Business as Usual for Chennai Realty

The recent unprecedented floods in Chennai has indeed put a spanner in the works of the real estate firms in the booming southern metropolis and its fledgling outskirts, albeit briefly.

After almost two weeks of hibernation and bright sun shine for almost ten days now, it is business as usual for real estate firms which are using innovative means to lure people to sell their projects.  While some draw people’s attention by claiming that the areas where their residential projects are coming up are safe as they have not been affected by floods, others are making indirect attempts to sell their projects in worst affected areas in and around Chennai by becoming good Samaritans.

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Also published in Merinews.com

Move over blackboards, digital classrooms are here

K Ramanathan

No blackboards, no pen-paper tests, no chalk pollution and no more noisy dictations. Digital technology has indeed made sweeping changes in modern day classroom education system in India with teaching methodology witnessing a major makeover much to the benefits of students and teaching fraternity.

The traditional blackboards/glass boards or white boards are being replaced by digital boards, digital screens or smart boards which offer enhanced learning experience to students and facilitate tutors to plan their lesson in a better way incorporating more inputs and information beyond text-books and better organize their day-to-day responsibilities.

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How to Protect your POS from Malware Attacks

Cashless transactions, which were once considered to be safe and secured by millions of card holders around the world, are in danger of pilfering vital transaction data by unscrupulous hackers.

Over seven billion credit card holders globally are in risk of losing vital card data to fraudsters and cyber-criminals with 2016 going to be a challenging year for cyber security agencies to thwart the increasing attacks on POS installations.

It is estimated that about one billion data records had been compromised through 1,500 attacks in 2014 with more than half of them belonging to the retail industry involving point-of-sale (POS) systems.

India, with more than half a million POS installations for 600 million card holders (credit and debit cards put together) may find the vital card details compromised unless the retail businesses and banks take adequate security measures to make transactions fully secured, feels Bhaskar Venkatraman, founder and CEO of JusTransact.com, an e-commerce marketplace which sells Point of Sale (POS) hardware products to retail and non-retail businesses.

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Also published in Merinews.com

Posiflex Strides to Digitalize Indian Retail Sector: Baskaramoorthy

Baskaramoorthy, 
Vice-President – Sales, 
Posiflex Technology (India) Pvt. Ltd.

An early entrant to the organized retail sector in India, Baskaramoorthy was instrumental in introducing a range of hardware products to the booming sector. As a co-founder of Protocol, he brought the barcode technology and POS machines as a distribution partner of Taiwan's Posiflex and developed the market in India. 

When Posiflex, a global leading brand in design and manufacture of POS solutions and peripherals, looked to consolidate Indian market in 2009, Protocol was the natural choice and they forged to form an Indian entity – Posiflex India.

Having close to two decades of industry exposure with deep understanding of the Indian retail industry in terms of quality, price points and service requirements, Baskar was instrumental in developing Industrial Automation products to help improve the Workforce Efficiency and Inventory Management using Barcode & RFID technologies in India.

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How Barcodes can Make your Supply Chain Management Simple and Efficient

Supply chain management is a complex business process under multi-store environment where one has to keep an eye on the movement of raw materials from suppliers till they became finished goods. Some time, one need to import raw materials and the complexities involved may delay the production which in turn will impact the turnover. With the invention of barcode technology, more businesses across the globe are using it for tracking purpose to make the supply chain efficient, organized and simplified.

For many years since the invention of barcodes, they were hardly used outside the retail point of sale (POS) systems. However, now-a-days barcode technology has become ubiquitous to any type of industry along the supply chains.

The vital business details stored on 1D (linear) or 2D (such as QR codes) barcodes immensely aids business establishments to identify/track inventory in an efficient and timely manner with errors going down considerably (about one error in every 3 million impressions) compared to manual system. Since all the businesses along the supply chain have access to barcode technology, details about products can be seamlessly monitored, checked passed-on and integrated throughout its passage till they reach the end users.

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New Year's Eve Dressup game from Dollygals

Sarah is planning to host a New Year party for her friends. She wants to look great and hence goes to a nearby salon. You are the beautician in the salon and take charge of dressing up Sarah. You have to change her hair style and apply appropriate colour to it. You should also take care of her eyes and skin. Choose from the variety of lipstick shades. You have to then select her top and bottom dress from the whole lot of choices. Read full game description here

Hungry Santa

Oh, no! Santa has become too skinny. He needs a Christmas Miracle. It's up to you to get him fat in time for Christmas! Can you help him get fatter? You have to try to feed him as much fat food as possible. The more you feed Santa, the more fatness you accumulate, so that he will be able to get fat in time for the Christmas Eve. Read full game description here.



Design Your Winter Boots

Annie wants to go out and play with her friends. But the weather is so cold outside that she wants to have a proper boots to go out and play. She doesn’t have one to wear. So she decides to design a pair of winter boots for herself. Will you help her to make a beautiful winter boots for Annie? Choose the materials carefully and decorate the boots. Select the colour of the boots and add decorate it using the available items in the room. Read full game description here.


Belle House Makeover

Our attractive Belle came home to see that her adorable Beast has made the house in complete mess. Nothing is perfect including the tables and chairs. She needs your help to keep the house in order. But you have to find the items hidden in the house to repair the broken things. You have to be really adventurous to help Belle to renovate the house. Choose from the options and give the house a good painting. Read full game description here.


Baby Barbie Manga Costumes

Baby Barbie is fond of Manga dress. But she is not able to get her dress and other make up items. All of them are hidden in her messy bedroom. You have an interesting job in hand to help Barbie to find her hidden dress items. After finding the required things, you have to dress up baby Barbie from the dozens of pretty manga costumes available for her. You have to match each fancy top with the right skirt to produce amazing style. Read full game description here.