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Bar Coding

Bar Coding. By Nick Mitchell. To Be Covered. What is a Barcode What are some of the uses of Barcodes How does a Barcode work Where you may find a Barcode How a firm may use Barcodes Summary. What is a Barcode. Like “License Plates”

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Bar Coding

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  1. Bar Coding By Nick Mitchell

  2. To Be Covered • What is a Barcode • What are some of the uses of Barcodes • How does a Barcode work • Where you may find a Barcode • How a firm may use Barcodes • Summary

  3. What is a Barcode • Like “License Plates” • Identifies an item by the numbers and/or letters stored in the barcode, once read a vast amount of information can be stored and related to a product. • 300 different types • Different schemes of bars and spaces are arranged for coding data.

  4. Uses Of Barcodes • Products • Consumer products such as: magazines, food products, etc. • Services • Gyms and facilities which track attendance.

  5. How do barcodes work • Identifier • This allows a computer to search for information about a product from a numerical or alphabetical code. • Beams • Beams of light from a reader take a picture of the barcode and reads the relative widths of both the bars and the spaces, giving each code a unique identifier

  6. Where you may find barcodes • Grocery Stores • Recreation Clubs • Ski Resorts • Manufacturing companies • FedEx & UPS • Retail Stores

  7. How they may be used • Grocery Stores • During stocking of shelves entering the number of products and each kind • During check out the checkers scan products brining up identification of products, removal from inventory, and totaling up amount due.

  8. How they may be used cont. • A Gym or Recreation Club • These business will use barcodes for the club member’s passes. • As a user of the club enters the facility they will run their card through a scanner. • Once this is scanned the members information will be brought up • Picture, billing, dates of sign-up, and maybe work-out programs.

  9. How they may be used cont. • Ski Resorts • Some resorts track a skiers vertical feet • By using scanners a lift operator can scan a skiers pass with a beam. This will then be entered into a database for tracking • Season pass verification • Similar to how Recreational clubs, these resorts can use barcodes on the back of passes to measure attendance.

  10. How the may be used cont. • Manufacturing company • Serial numbers may be assigned to each individual product. • Once produced these product will be entered into Finished Goods Inventory (FGI) by scanning them in to a software program. • When these products are taken out of FGI and shipped or purchased they can be scanned to be removed from the inventory system.

  11. How the may be used cont. • FedEx & UPS • These companies rely on timeliness and accuracy. Scanning each package throughout its journey helps to ensure a packages delivery. • Barcodes on packages contain destination, weight or dimensional weight, time of departure and location, cost, and type of service

  12. How the may be used cont. • Retail Stores • Used during the inventory of clothing and apparel, or other consumer goods. • Also used during check-out, the use of barcodes will automatically deduct from inventory as items are purchased.

  13. Summary • Benefits of barcodes • Speed • Efficiency • Accuracy • Access to information • Completeness of information • Over all competence of logistics

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