Case Study: Seaman Corporation

High-Performance Fabrics Manufacturer Rolls Forward with Better Inventory Control

For more than 60 years, Seaman Corporation's high-performance fabrics have been used in a variety of ways ranging from liners and tarps to roofing systems and architectural structures. With inventory control and shipping activities spanning four warehouses, five additional facilities, and three manufacturing plants, it's vital that an accurate count of all available products is maintained. Orders, large and small, must be filled daily and accurately—averaging about 30,000 transactions per month. To meet these needs, Seaman Corporation recently upgraded their mobile computing hardware without reengineering their shipping and inventory control software, Satellite Forms.

Working with Satellite Forms and SystemID, Seaman Corporation chose to replace their existing handheld computers with Janam XP20 mobile computers. Janam's XP20 Series was selected because of its Palm OS® platform, barcode scanning, speed and memory, wireless capabilities and keypad options. The fabrics manufacturer chose to keep running Satellite Forms on the Janam devices, because their Palm OS-based inventory and shipping application works perfectly with its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The new handheld computers provided seamless integration with the application, while delivering enhanced capabilities.

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