Many companies use barcode labels for stock control purposes. They are used at point of sale to identify a product and improve purchasing knowledge. However, barcode labels have other uses too and shouldn’t be buttonholed into their use on consumer goods.

Over the last few years barcodes labels have started to be used in more administrative roles as the access and availability of barcode scanning technology has become open to the masses. They can be attached to documents, letters and other important paperwork so the labels can be scanned and important information added to a database.

Filing and recording important data

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Data labels are being used with increasing frequency across industry. Many companies hold large amounts of stock of the items they need in their manufacturing processes. This stock needs to be accounted for as the total sum of the stock on a company’s books may add up to a great deal of money.

Pre-printed data labels can be used for labelling all stock in a warehouse or on a company’s premises. The labels can be affixed to the stock items themselves and even to the shelving or racking where the items are kept.

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Barcodes are used on just about any product you see nowadays. It’s an easy way of identifying a product and is used by merchandisers to keep a track of stock levels and hence pricing structure of their items.

Most barcode labels are pre-printed onto the goods when the goods are manufactured, but there are some applications in which barcode labels need to be affixed to goods after they have been manufactured. To facilitate this you can use pre-printed barcode labels.

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Barcodes are now used on just about every type of product in the market. The unique identifier of the barcode label can be thus used by the product owners to store information about the product, such as its specification and even the price of the product. Barcodes are a great way to manage the stock you have as when an item is sold. And when the barcode is scanned, your computer system can be updated and stock levels updated also.

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Barcode labels help companies meet their targets with ease. APC overnight, the well known logistics experts, use barcode technology to track the location of their parcels and packages so deliveries are always traceable and hence arrive at their destination on time.

Medical products distributors BioMonde are APC Overnight customers. For delivery of goods APC Overnight use their own tracking system, which is linked to the Biomonde Sage system and provides traceability of all the limited shelf life products that BioMonde have to distribute to customers.

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The recording of goods and stock has been made simple since the introduction of barcode technology. Now, barcode labels can be stuck on just about anything, so that items can be recorded and accurate data about products kept in a computerised form.

There are many different types of aftermarket barcode labels currently available which suit different purposes and applications.

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Keeping a check on your inventory and stock levels is vitally important for smaller businesses. The money you have tied up in stock is money that is literally sitting on a shelf and not being used. However, when you have an accurate way of measuring the stock you have and have a system which shows you what stock is being used and which stock isn’t being used you can make business processes a lot smoother.

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There are a huge variety of barcode labels and asset tag solutions currently available to the general user. And whilst the majority of these vary in size and design there are a few other things which can determine the usability of the label in question. Things such as the durability of the label, the material the label is made from and the tamper-proof qualities the label has can really make the difference between the label being used in one environment and not in another.

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Barcodes don’t have to be printed onto a product when it is manufactured, they can also be printed on labels which can be stuck onto a product at a later date. The black lines that you see on a barcode label are converted into alphanumeric data when read by a barcode scanner.

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Kettering General Hospital has come up with a new system which prints barcode labels for newborn babies. Under the scheme, the hospital gives a heel prick barcode label and barcode wristband to all babies within a few hours of their birth.

The heel prick barcode label is added to the red baby book, which is given to the parents to take home. The barcode wristband is attached to the baby’s ankle or wrist in the same way the hand written one was attached in the past.

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