BARCODING
K.ThirugnanaSambanthan, Professor, SIMS
During the previous decade, customers were standing in long queues in shops to bill their products. Manual Billing took more time and customers have to wait for long period of time. Today we visit any department store or super market, buy number of things, and could bill the products in a short span of time. The technology which paved way for this speedy billing is the Barcode Technology.
Barcode technology evolved from punch card technology. A barcode is an optical machine understandable representation of data linking to the object to which it is attached. Barcodes systematically represented data by varying the widths and spacing of parallel lines, and may be mentioned to as linear or one-dimension. Now this technology has been evolved into rectangles, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns in two dimensions. Barcode readers are used to scan the barcode content in the products.
Barcoding Number of different countries
| BAR CODE | COUNTRY |
| 890 | India |
| 888 | Singapore |
| 479 | Sri Lanka |
| 626 | Iran |
The advantages of Barcoding are
- The Seller can easily identify Fast selling items and can order it at the needed time
- This software can also help to find out the slow selling items and can prevent inventory buildup.
- The effects of merchandising changes can be monitored, allowing fastmoving, more profitable items to occupy the best space.
In this age of technological revolution, the use of barcoding technology has become really dominant and the vast majority of major supermarkets worldwide have become reliant on it. The customer demands convenience and speed, the supplier has a robust emphasis on accuracy which is satisfied by this technology.
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