The Importance of Bar Codes in Business
All of us have experienced standing patiently in line while waiting for our turn to purchase groceries at a grocery store or supermarket. The cashier works quickly as he/she scans the bar code of each item in our shopping baskets.
This small, powerful label has made our time spent in line-ups much shorter. Items no longer have to keyed in and registered separately.
Presently, the commonly used bar code helps retail sales in many ways:
- enables faster, more efficient customer service
- keeps track of products and need for replenishment
- helps in relation to inventory management
- increases check-out operations at point of sale
- assists customers at self-service check-outs
If you have a small business and would like to learn more about the importance of bar codes and its various applications, visit GS1, an international not-for-profit association that designs and manages a global system of supply chain standards. Click HERE for more information on GS1 BarCodes & Identification. For more information about GS1, click HERE.
Also, visit the Barcode Handbook page. Click HERE to visit.
For books on the topic, check out the following titles at the Toronto Public Library:
Hansen, Wolf-Rüdiger. RFID for the optimization of business processes. Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2008. Click HERE for details.
Palmer, Roger C. The Bar code book : comprehensive guide to reading, printing, specifying, and applying bar code and other machine-readable symbols. 4th ed. Peterborough, N.H. : Helmers Pub., c2001. Click HERE for details.
For current articles about bar codes, search by subject Bar codes in the Canadian Business and Current Affairs database and/or the Business & Company Resource Center database. An active Toronto Public Library card is needed for access. Click HERE to begin your search.
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