Connecting Microsoft Dynamics AX and the popular Seagull Scientific BarTender© barcode-label software, the To-Increase BarTender Integration helps companies create, print, and manage barcode labels with great flexibility and ease. Once you integrate your ERP and barcode systems, you can fully benefit from advanced barcoding to accelerate warehouse data collection, make it easier to track items, and minimize errors in managing items and their locations. BarTender Integration lets you include Dynamics AX data in barcoded labels and print any label type, including palette labels and labels with batch numbers, from your data source, with the option to include graphics and images. Warehouse workers in many companies rely on the integration to create labels receive, count, or ship goods. Among our partners and customers, these basic facts about our BarTender Integration are well known. However, here are a few things not everybody knows about the integration. BarTender Integration and Dynamics AX are all you need. Many seem to think you need to deploy the BarTender Integration in conjunction with To-Increase Data Collection Studio for Microsoft Dynamics AX, our mobile transaction recording solution. Untrue. As long as you have Dynamics AX, BarTender software, and our integration, you can print batches of labels from AX, including location, shipping, and pallet labels, right from within the ERP system. You can change locations and label layouts, and include batch and serial numbers, as you like. However, Data Collection Studio supports the BarTender Integration, so you can take full advantage of sophisticated barcoding in transaction processing and information recording in your warehouse and distribution. Print reports. On the other hand, it is true that you can print bill-of-lading reports, pick list reports, financial reports, invoicing reports, and many other reports that need to include barcodes, by using the BarTender Integration. Because they have barcodes in them, you can scan them with barcoding devices, and flexibly print them without barcodes if that is preferable. Warehouse managers and supervisors in companies we know use the BarTender Integration all the time to configure and print reports in almost any imaginable format. Barcoded labels for regional terminologies. When you deal with customers in different countries and cultures, there are often language differences—even when everybody uses English. You want to ensure that your customers and distribution partners receive goods with labels that feature the naming they understand and asked for. By means of the multi-language and multi-country features in Dynamics AX, your BarTender Integration will give you jam instead of jelly, cookies instead of biscuits, and parts for lorries instead of trucks. When you configure the barcode labels, you can use the same label design to select and print the right information from AX. Country-specific label templates. In the BarTender Integration, you can also set up guidelines and standards for label designs in different countries, so workers can use the Taiwanese or Italian templates, for instance, when they need to ship goods to those countries. In this case, the software will pick the right label template as soon as the labels are configured to be country-specific. Labels then look the way they should in a certain country, the way people expect to see them. Workers do not have to worry whether a certain place is in a certain country or not. The BarTender Integration ensures accurate labels as long as it the initial setup in AX and the integration was performed properly. The screen images below show the screens you navigate as you set up country- and customer-specific labels—and what they can look like. Easy to learn and use. Finally, we often state in our marketing materials that the BarTender Integration is extremely easy to learn and use. I’ve looked into this to make sure it’s actually true, so I can confirm that between one to two hours of training is enough for the To-Increase partners and customers who have recently implemented the BarTender Integration in their business. We have seen users configure extremely complex labels after a little more than an hour’s worth of training. The illustration below shows a shipping pallet label sample produced with our BarTender Integration. Do you have any experiences to share from your use of the BarTender Integration? With your stories, feedback, or questions, please get in touch by contacting To-Increase , sending email to rkhurana [at] to-increase.com, or reaching me on LinkedIn .![]()
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