Bar Coding

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Bar Coding

• By Nick Mitchell

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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

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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.

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Uses Of Barcodes

• Products
• Consumer products such as magazines, food
  products, etc.
• Services
• Gyms and facilities which track attendance.

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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

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Where you may find barcodes

• Grocery Stores
• Recreation Clubs
• Ski Resorts
• Manufacturing companies
• FedEx UPS
• Retail Stores

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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.

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How they may be used cont.

• A Gym or Recreation Club
• These business will use barcodes for the club
  members 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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Summary

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