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Universal Product Code (UPC) bar code

• Why is the Universal Product Code (UPC) bar code important to today's global business environment?

• Answer:

  Hello charlayne, The use of UPC bar codes provide the unambiguous transfer of information about the identity products, regardless of language or of the software that is being used to manage the information at the various points of the supply chain around the world. “In order to move products through the supply chain we must be able to identify the products and then match the physical product and shipment to the related transaction information. This means that we must have a standard method to identify products and shipments including the bar codes and labels. We must also have a standard to deal with methods of communicating information about shipments and the individual items contained in the shipment.” MANUFACTURERS Guide to Bar Code, Common Forms and EC/EDI Hobby Industry Technology Site http://www.insightu.org/hobby/guide_mfr/ch10.htm “Computers, and the software that drives them, are not by nature multilingual. Even within the same factory or warehouse, a PC in, say, receiving might not be able to talk with the computers in shipping…. as companies struggle to stay afloat they are realizing that departmental silos of hard-to-transfer data stymie supply chain management and thus block the way to rapid, real-time sharing of information…. Once you start swapping data with your suppliers and customers and collaborating, things can get garbled real fast…. A significant step… is the recent merger between the Uniform Code Council (UCC) and RosettaNet. Best known for its Universal Product Code (U.P.C.), the 30-year-old, global, not-for-profit UCC draws members from 23 industries, with an emphasis on grocers and other retailers (U.P.C. technology is also found in agricultural products, building materials, chemicals, publishing, defense, health care, and many more industries). In addition to assigning the ubiquitous U.P.C. bar code to its 260,000 member firms, the UCC also provides related standards and global commerce expertise for its constituents, including advice in the area of supply chain management…. Vendors who belong to the two groups can look forward to greater, concentrated support as a result of the merger, along with increased market opportunities…. The UCC has extensive experience in maintaining global keys, which are unique, unambiguous numbers that act as globally recognizable identifiers for products around the world. Translatable into machine-readable bar codes (RFID tags will work, too), global keys can also incorporate additional data, such as "best before" dates and lot numbers.” Quickscan Paul Quinn, Senior Writer “Toward an e-Commerce Lingua Franca”, October 2002 http://www.idsystems.com/reader/2002/2002_10/qs1002/qs1002.htm