subject: How Barcodes In Packaging And Labeling Is Helpful [print this page] Look at any product and you will definitely find barcodes on its packaging and labeling. Whilst product based industry is largely accepting barcodes technology for their product, common people rarely knows about its importance. Barcode technology has actually revolutionized industrial business by simplifying the distribution system. Barcodes that comprise of many thin and thick bars placed disorderly with few digits below the bars are very helpful for business.
Bar codes are more than being simply bars printed on packages or labels. They store a lot of information such as what is inside the package, in what temperature the product has to be store and so on to guide the industrial storage facility as how to handle the product or material so that their integrity is still maintained.
Packaging and labeling material used for printing barcodes are of high quality and are very durable. Paper materials are chosen for this purpose in way so that they can survive in any adverse weather condition, including high temperature, dust and any other particulate material, in order to protect information even in long transportation distance.
With barcodes one can set the sequence of the industrial storage materials to identify what is needed and mark dates on the label. This saves too much roaming around in the storage and will make your finding process easy no matter how tightly the product is packed inside carton box or pallets. The barcode information can be also stored later in the database of the industry storage facility in order to find any box whenever necessary. In short it allows storage facility to manage their storage in the easiest possible way.
Whereas barcode provides the option to track and manage the boxes with barcode printers and barcode readers/barcode verifiers, it also allows storage facility to catch any sort of shoplifting or issue of theft if the barcode database system is managed regularly. Creating and managing barcode database enables you to perform auditing of your store.
Barcode can manage inventory count accurately. This will be possible because when barcodes is scanned, it can be added or subtracted from database of the inventory counts. Means, you can keep a direct track on how many items were resealed and how many has been added.
Scanning barcodes reads accurate price and charge the same to the buyer. Also, the pricing can be changed depending on the discount offered from time to time.
For medicinal products barcode can even tell the type of pharmaceutical, name of the patient, and frequency of dosage. These bars can be also scanned to make sure that appropriate medicines have been distributed in the health care facility to a patient.
