Do us a favour: go and find a package you've just got. Have you found one? Great, look at the label now. Do you see a mass of blocks and black ones? You should know that from other purchases you made in-store: it's just a standard barcode, or maybe a quick response (QR) code, the same as you might find on a rubber pack or a copy paper package. Have you ever tracked the box, anxious to see when it's coming? Thank that barcode: it made it easy for you to remain in-the-know when it came to the progress of your package. Although it might seem like a huge step away from the original intent of a barcode, it's not a simple way to read product information. Instead, you can think of it as an extension to read this information at various points in the supply chain.
Barcodes are important for any company that
sells physical products. They are used in brick and mortar stores as part of
the buy and return process, in warehouses to track inventory and packages, by
shipping firms to locate and track
shipments, and often on invoices to assist with accounting.
Without barcodes, current shipping and
inbound and outbound logistics systems will be more costly
and error-prone. Logistics
third-party companies (also known as 3PLs) rely on barcodes to operate
their warehouses efficiently so that they can better support the companies for
which they provide performance services.
The 2
main barcode types
1.
Product barcodes (on the products they receive, store, and ship)
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