DAYTON, Tenn. – Bar codes on Rhea County’s growing inventory soon will help finance department personnel track what’s coming in and when it’s time for an upgrade, officials said.
Crystal Vest, the county’s purchasing clerk, said that though it took her a good bit of time initially to get bar codes placed on all the county’s physical assets, “It’s going to be a big improvement.”
Vest said she’ll scan bar codes now with a hand-held scanner similar to what grocery stores use and set up parameters to determine the assets’ name and location in the county. That information then will be imported into her computer software, she said.
Rhea County’s Purchase and Finance Committee director Bill Graham told committee members that county employees in recent months had used a 10 year-old computer system. He said they had to manually input all of the county’s inventory items and needed a newer system.
The new “Arrival” tracking scanner will help the purchasing department to know “things that are moved and who they belong to,” Graham said.