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The hospitality & commercial services industries contain many interconnected sectors where auto-identification technologies can apply and create added efficiencies. Whether food services (from quick-service restaurants to high end restaurants), accommodation (from roadside motels to luxury resorts), leisure/recreational activities (cruises, theme parks, and other entertainment venues), commercial services (from field service teams to banking corporations) or travel & transportation (from courier services to airlines) all sectors can receive benefits from innovative utilisation of new technology and solutions.
Whether your requirement is tracking product shelf life, monitoring of assets or documents, assistance in managing field activities, real-time data capture and on-demand printing, luggage tags or even event wristbands or ticket printing, SATO can provide a range of solutions tailored to suit. We understand that it is important to be efficient while also ensuring that the customer experience is maximised.
Food Services
SATO DateRight™ solutions enable complete control and traceability to efficiently and safely manage products all the way from receipt from suppliers to the customer, or back to the distributor where returns are needed. Tainted or spoiled food products can be easily identified, recalled, and returned without incident, which saves time, money, and potential litigation.
Accommodation
Whether small boutique establishments or a large luxury resorts, it is the overall customer experience that makes the difference to your business. Any approach that provides your guests with better, more efficient services will always be noted, and utilising some of the technology and products offered by SATO could help you to deliver service with a difference.
Leisure/Recreational Activities
Whether you need wristbands, ticket printing, "kiosk" solutions, mobile printing, data capture, 2D security barcoding, identification or have any number of other requirements, SATO have products & resources to provide you with the best solution.
Commercial Services
Effective data capture solutions help to enable effective inventory control and asset management, assisting in providing accurate data for maintenance and inspection operations. Where combined with one of the mobile print solutions also offered by SATO they also allows for effective identification and tracking in field.
Travel & Transportation
The specific requirements of transportation are widely varied depending on whether they related to parcel, pallet or people. To cater to all the requirements of this sector, SATO have a range of specifically designed applications. Please review our Logistics Industry page for more information.
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APPLICATIONS
 DateRight™ Labelling
SATO DateRight™ Labelling solutions make it easy for food service operators to manage their food storage and supplies rotation - helping guarantee food freshness and meet safety requirements. Utilising the HT200e printer as the key hardware component the system utilises pre-set formats and automatically calculates and prints dates and times, eliminating unnecessary errors. Multi colour/Colour coded or specifically designed "hospitality blue" labels are utilised in conjunction with HT200e overprinting to provide the most effective visual way to ensure triggers are at hand for critical food stock rotation. SATO offers an extensive range of barcode labelling solutions for tracking and tracing food products and DateRight™ is one that offers a fully flexible system tailored to suit your products and requirements.
Identification & Tracking
Capturing all data relating to logistics units, times, and locations are critical to all organisations where real-time visibility is required. To assist in identifying, tracking and controlling of "products" or services SATO have a range of products and solutions to save time, reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Asset Labelling
All organisations, regardless of size, require an ordered and flexible approach to effectively manage mobile & fixed assets. Whether the requirement is for simple labels with asset numbers, for barcode labels for electronic scanning purposes, or RFID tracking labels or tags for more expensive portable assets, SATO can offer comprehensive asset tracking solutions to suit all circumstances.
Data Capture Solutions
As an agent for all major brands of data capture equipment, SATO combines its international knowledge and experience to advise and support you in all your data capture requirements. Whether looking to source replacement scanning equipment or looking to implement a new integrated system, our knowledge and quality service delivers you the best product in the most cost effective fashion. SATO can provide Motorola, Intermec, Denso, Datalogic, Opticon and many other brands to suit your application.
RFID Solutions
As businesses move forward and technology improves it makes sense to ensure that your business is ready to take advantage of the technology available both now and in the future. Utilising a SATO RFID ready print solution enables you to manage barcode requirements today, while also supporting expanding RFID requirements - without requiring changes to your entire infrastructure.
Service Bureau
Regardless of the size of the job, SATO's print bureau has the capabilities to manufacture and overprint your labels to meet all required standards. If your specifications require overprinting of standard or customised labels or tags, with fixed, variable or sequential data and you do not have these facilities to print in-house, SATO can provide the secure, quality print solution to suit your needs.
Mobile Printing Solutions
SATO Mobile Printing Solutions offer lightweight, ergonomic, wearable printers able to withstand the challenges of field conditions where dust and temperature extremes, or physical shock are common. Capable of interfacing with all leading branded data terminals or mobile PC's, SATO Mobile printers help deliver efficiency and convenience without compromising on performance and the 2 inch and 4 inch printers allow for the maximum flexibility needed by most working environments. To compliment our mobile range, where static printing is required SATO have a extensive range of desktop and industrial printers to suit all applications, with many of our smaller desktop printers also featuring anti-microbial properties.
Customised Labels
SATO have local manufacturing facilities located in Melbourne capable of producing labels to suit most applications. We have a large standard label range covering Sheet fed (laser), Roll fed and Sprocket fed products, however our facilities also offer our customers the flexibility of producing customised labels in plain or pre-printed, single or complex multi-part formats.
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APPLICABLE PRODUCTS
MB200i/400i
HT200e
CX400
CT4i
LM Series
GL4e Series
Hand Labelling
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CASE STUDIES
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End User: Stutch Data Services
SATO Products: SATO Label Gallery 3 Software (with ODBC), SATO CX400 & CT4 Printers, Motorola MC55 Terminal, Custom manufactured labels, SATO Print Bureau
Overview:
Stutch Data Services are a computer storage media, hardware and software supply company. Specialising in tape & data storage, products and services, Stutch Data supply to the Information Technology segments within Government, Medical and a range of other organisations. Stutch Data range of products and services includes tape drives, tape libraries, data and storage software, data and cleaning tapes, LTO Tape testing, Storage units as well as many other items.
Issues:
As an extension of the services provided by Stutch Data, they were approached by one of their customers to provide a printing and labelling solution to allow them to track their IT assets in all of it's global divisions. Stutch Data's customer had previously used other systems and labels and experienced a series of problems which caused the system to be ineffective.
Solution:
Working with Stutch Data to ensure integration with their software, SATO developed a software solution to produce required labels utilising Label Gallery 3 including open database connectivity (ODBC) and print format files. The network based software solution was provided along with both SATO CX400 and CT4 printers to match with the volumes of printing to be required at each area of the local site. Physical labels were designed and manufactured to fit the exact specifications of Stutch Data's customer for durable, high quality labels. These same labels were provided as a combination of plain labels for overprinting in-house on CX & CT printers as well as a large portion being pre-printed in the SATO Print Bureau prior to shipment to international branches of customer. The local branch of the customer was also supplied with Motorola MC55 Terminals and software for the purposes of capturing the details of each asset.
Benefits:
Working with partner Stutch Data, SATO has provided the customer with hardware, software and consumables to be able to produce the exact labels and solution that were needed to be able to label and track their IT assets. All items are matched to customer specifications to provide the optimal performance, durability and ongoing flexibility if required.
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