Bar code technology has been widely used in China’s commodity circulation sales,industrial automation control and office automation fields.It appears in the work of raising the efficiency of the data at the same time to achive the collection of information and interaction, it is the potential for commercial application (product barcode ) has been a business and national issues of primary concern.
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The strip form code is a modern means which are quickly and accurately transmit messages of commodities.Because it is easy to transmit the information between computer with production the bar code has already filtered in our life.And bar code technology mainly includes :INTERLEAVED 2 OF 5;UPC;EAN.With the continuous development of information technology, bar code type also more and more .Now there have been many new type of bat code label.UPC is a typical kind of bar code applications.UPC code is a commodity code of the United States in 1973,widely used with the north American continent.Bar code goods in China has been promoting, in a supermarket POS(Point-of-sale) system and many commercial systems in a wide rang of applied successfully.
The characteristics of the bar code is :
- Bar code simple graphics
- Each has a specific bar code symbols
- There was no duplication of each coding scheme
- Each region coding scheme will in close coordination with the reading device
Commercial application of bar code
Commercial bar code coding structure in the associated applications,the identification codes on a global scale of the uniqueness of the solution.The whole process of supply chain of goods are saturated with the application of bar code technology , its development can be divided into three basic aspects: the first phase of goods used for the automatic clearing; the second stage for the internal management of the enterprise; the third stage for trade partners ,such as supply chain logistics distribution , chain management and e-commerce.
The commercial application of bar code greatly improve the efficiency of the supply chain,because of the promotion of this technique makes the global supermarkets have plenty of time on the distribution, one of the most typical example is the wal-mart.Wal-mart using bar code technology to achieve the global shortage of zero phenomenon.The combination of the modern commercial technology should be more different high-tech to create more value.