In your Market research and throughout your implementation process, you need to be aware of which solutions and products are at your disposal to build in order to build a well functioning system. There has been developed several types of Bar Codes standards for several applications. Vital that you need to know which ID key should be applied in which situation, for what sort of product.
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you are a Manufacturer, supplier, distributor, or a shop owner , more likely that Logistical and stock control issues Will affect you directly. One of the FORE-most important things that numerous Manufacturers and suppliers over-look is a barcode, and related issues as they tie with the purpose. For any Product to efficiently move from Point A to Point B, a barcode is needed. After realising the importance of a barcode, in many cases, suppliers, especially small and medium enterprises, they are faced with a challenge of where to get a barcode. There is an illusion that has been perpetuated around that the only legitimate barcodes are those that are purchased directly from GS1 by a supplier. This is not true, especially for suppliers who are not going to be supplying major retailers. i.e Pick n’ Pay, Mass-mart, Shoprite, Spar, etc etc. As long as the barcode.
• At this stage, the global standard barcodes symbologies that are used by majority of suppliers are, EAN/UPC Codes. EAN/UPC are specific for retail Point-of-Sale (POS) because they are designed for the high volume scanning environment .They are used also in logistics.
• Having said that, Barcodes-4-Africa is a legitimate GS1-barcode Reseller. One of the things that strain smaller suppliers when needing to get a barcode is the inflexibility of those popular Companies who are selling barcodes. The Fee structure only favours the Multi-nationals. Manufactures and suppliers that are new in the market only start off with few products, meaning that they will only need relatively few barcodes, at a minimal cost. This would be impossible to achieve if a manufacturer is looking at purchasing barcodes directly from Companies like GS1.
• If you are looking at getting a barcode, you are welcome to contact us on, (+27)072 957 7761. BARCODES-4-AFRICA TEAM.
