摘要 |
A method and portable terminal device for collecting data of product items. After the user has counted a number of product items belonging to same product identifier he/she stores the counted number of product items to the terminal device by a voice command. The updated inventory data is then stored to the inventory file of the inventory system using the portable terminal device immediately or afterwards. In addition or alternatively, another voice command is used in initiating the reader to read the product identifier. In addition or alternatively, still another voice command is used to transfer the number of identified products linked to the corresponding product identifiers between the terminal device and the inventory system file. This provides a fast and reliable way of collecting data of products in the inventory systems and also a fast and reliable way of updating information of inventory files in the inventory systems.
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