It was Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio on June 26, 1974 — the first UPC scan. That leap is a big reason we can run true perpetual inventory and cleaner cycle counts today; what other “firsts” moved the needle on accuracy or throughput in your warehouse?
For us, the first time we enforced ASNs + SSCC license plates from suppliers was our 1974-moment — receiving went from clipboards to scan-once pallets, dock-to-stock dropped about 30% and misreceipts cratered (GS1: https://www.gs1.org/standards/sscc). Anyone else see a bigger accuracy bump from “voice picking” than RF guns?