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Submitted by: Daniel Posner

Barcodes are referred to a collection of vertical black bars and white spaces with varying shape and sizes. Barcodes stores descriptive details of products like product name, product price, company name, quantity and a lot of information. Barcodes are employed for counting objects and finished goods supply, regular arrangement of cartons and luggage on conveyor belts, group tracking, fixed asset tracking, time and attendance record maintenance, automate storehouse functions, selection and shipping, recognizing creation block, file tracking, parcel tracking, controlled substance tracking, patient billing, retail industries and others.

Barcodes are employed for several inventory uses to encode manifold small or big products, grocery items, packages, containers and others. Barcode provides a straightforward and suitable way to mark departmental store units dealing with products to sell out in Retail Business. Barcode Scanners reads information from barcode pictures, images, labels marked on created products used for Inventory Control and Retail Business. Barcode usage gives multiple advantages such as process efficiency, improved performance, data accuracy, rapid access of information related to retail items and manufactured products. With bar-coding technology, you can perform batch task functions including tracking products, gathering company particulars, making a collection of product data and others.

Barcodes are available in market in different type of symbologies including one dimensional barcode fonts and two dimensional barcode symbologies. Linear Barcode Fonts includes Codabar, Code 11, Code 39, Code 93, Extended Code 39, Extended Code 93, UPC A, Planet, Postnet, Industrial 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, Planet, Postnet, Intelligent Mail, Telepen, MSI Plessey, Code 128, UCC EAN 128, ISBN, GS1 128 and others. Two Dimensional barcode symbologies composed of Data Matrix, Maxi Code, QR Code and other famous barcode fonts.

Advantages of using barcodes

1. Available in linear and two dimensional barcode fonts

Barcodes present in two forms including linear and two dimensional barcode symbologies such as Code 11, Code 128, Codabar, Code 39, Code 93, Extended Code 39, Extended Code 93, UPC A, Planet, Postnet, Industrial 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, Planet, Postnet, Intelligent Mail, Telepen, MSI Plessey, UCC EAN 128, ISBN, GS1 128, Data Matrix, Maxi Code, QR Code and others

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2. Speedy execution of data

Barcode scanners access information written on barcode symbol printed on inventory objects. Barcodes store product details like product name, product id, product price, quantity, company name, company address etc.

3. Inventory updates

Barcodes always give up to date information every time in all small and medium scale industries.

4. Reduce Stock levels

Barcodes are used to decrease level of stock in inventory business and retail industries

5. Cost Investments

Use of barcode technology helps in reducing stock level results leads to low carrying costs

6. Enhanced Process Efficiency

Barcoding system assists in rising performance and data efficiency for inventory and retail companies

7. Little working costs

Barcode technology implementation gives less operating costs applied in small scale or medium scale

8. Replace Keyboard Data Entry

Use of barcode system replaces need of data entry with computer coded information scanned by barcode scanner.

Retailers, Manufacturers, financial services, distributors, public utilities, government agencies, phone companies, hospitals, transportation companies and almost each additional kind of commerce are using bar code technology.

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) is composed of vertical bars and spaces and applied for point of scale management, inventory tracking and others.

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