Introduction

Invention of barcode have been simplify human on many aspect of life. Warehouse management is the most significant improvement after the introduction of barcode technology. Barcode have been simplify the reading of the manual writing and recording and improve at least 50% of the working efficiency of the daily warehouse operation.

How to use barcode in warehouse?

Barcode have been added on to most of the trading item today for machine reading purposes, GS1 as world organizer play the role to standardize the using of barcode. consumer product have been printed with EAN barcode outside the packaging and every box contain the product will be printed with ITF 14 barcode for inventory purposes. warehouse management software will arrange the goods base on the printed ITF 14 barcode outside the box to arrange in the warehouse and use for identifying and picking purposes. Warehouse worker after pickup the item order by customer, they will verify by just scanning on the ITF14 barcode outside the box to complete the picking activity.

How to generate barcode in warehouse?

Barcode for consumer goods normally will be generated by goods manufacturer during the packaging process. An  ITF14 barcode will also be printed outside the packaging box for warehouse purposes. Anyway, not 100% product manufacturer will print the ITF14 barcode outside their box. In order to handle this, the warehouse operator need to purchase their own label printer to print the ITF14 barcode and stick outside the box for tracking purposes.

Barcode outsite the packaging

Barcode type EAN 13 is the standard to be use by the product manufacturer in order to identify their product to the world. Company would like to produce their our barcode outsite their product packaging required to make an application to GS1 in their own country, a set of 13 digit number barcode will be given to them in order for them to print out on their product packaging. Designer can design their barcode by using our free online barcode generator tools. 

Reading packaging barcode

In order to read the printed barcode, the most easy way is using your smartphone by downloading the free barcode decoding software. Anyway for reading intensive operation, user may required to purchase commercial type of barcode scanner in order to connect to their inventory application in order for the barcode capturing process simplify. below is the recommended type of barcode scanner for reading intensive operation in warehouse.