The application of bar codes is indispensable in the management of modern large supermarkets. Large supermarkets, from vertical to horizontal, from the circulation of goods, the selection of suppliers to the management of customers and employees, have fully used barcodes.

The use of barcodes is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1. Management of commodity circulation;

2. Customer management;

3. Supplier management;

4. Staff management.

Management of commodity circulation

Commodity circulation in supermarkets includes: receipt, warehousing, warehouse checking, warehousing, price checking, sales, inventory, etc. The specific operations are as follows:

Receiving: The Bluetooth wireless portable terminal of the employees of the receiving department, the wireless portable terminal connected to the host through the wireless network already has the information such as the name, quantity, and article number of the goods to be received this time. Scan the barcode that comes with the goods to confirm the article number. Then enter the quantity of the goods, the wireless portable terminal can immediately display whether the goods meet the requirements of the order. If it matches, send the goods to the inbound step.

Inbound and outbound: Inbound and outbound are actually the warehouse department repeating the above steps. This step is only added to facilitate management, to implement the responsibilities of each department, and to prevent some goods from needing to enter the store directly after receiving the goods without entering the warehouse. the resulting confusion.

Counting: Counting is the most important and necessary process in the warehouse department. The staff of the warehouse department scans the barcode of the goods, confirms the item number, and confirms the quantity. All data will be transmitted to the host computer in real time through the wireless network.

Price Check: Price check is a tedious task in supermarkets. Because the goods often have special prices or adjustments, confusion is also likely to occur, so the salesperson carries the wireless portable terminal and hangs a small barcode printer on his waist to check the changes of the goods according to the host data on the wireless portable terminal. Goods, immediately connect to a small barcode printer through a wireless portable terminal to print the changed new barcode label, and paste it on the shelf or goods.

Sales: Sales is the lifeblood of supermarkets, mainly through the identification of product barcodes through the POS system, which reflects equivalent exchange.

Note: The barcode label must be of good quality. First, it is convenient for the salesperson to scan and improve efficiency; second, it is to prevent the loss caused by customers sticking low-priced labels on high-priced goods to check out.

Inventory: Inventory is an important means for supermarkets to collect data, and it is also an essential work for supermarkets. In the previous inventory, the business had to be suspended for manual inventory, and the impact on the business and the company's image during the period was immeasurable. Until modern times, some supermarkets use non-business hours to require employees to work overtime for inventory. This is only the management model of small supermarkets, and it is not suitable for long-term use. Moreover, the inventory cycle is long and the efficiency is low.

As a representative of the world's large supermarkets, its inventory method has been improved. It is mainly divided into two parts: the lottery and the whole list: the lottery refers to the daily sampling and inventory. Several times a day, the computer host will randomly instruct the salesperson to go to the shelf and count the goods. The salesperson only needs to hold the wireless portable terminal in hand, follow the instructions of the host computer transmitted through the wireless network, go to the shelf, scan the barcode of the designated product, check the product after confirming it, and then transmit the data to the host computer through the wireless portable terminal. Perform data analysis again.

The whole plate, as the name suggests, is the whole store inventory. It is a kind of regular inventory. The supermarket is divided into several areas, each of which is in charge of different salesmen. It also obtains the instructions on the host through the wireless portable terminal, and counts the goods according to the specified route and order, and then continuously transmits the inventory data back to the host. , the stocktaking period does not affect the normal operation of the supermarket at all.

Because the usual drawing and regular whole disk plus all the work are real-time data exchange with the host, the accuracy of the data on the host is very high, and the operation of the entire supermarket is also clear at a glance.

Customer Management

The use of barcodes to manage customers is mainly used in membership supermarkets. The main process is as follows: If a new customer wants to go shopping in a membership supermarket, he must first fill in the membership form at the customer service center. The service center will immediately take a picture of the customer through the NBS barcode image card making system, and the barcode will be imaged within 8 seconds. The membership card is issued to the customer. The card will have the customer's color photo, membership number, number bar code, membership time, category, unit and other information. Customers enter the supermarket with the card to purchase goods, and must present the membership card when checking out. The cashier confirms the membership by scanning the barcode on the card, and can store the member's shopping information in the member database for future use. The main advantages of using barcode cards for management in membership supermarkets are: low cost, high efficiency, and accurate data.

Supplier management

The use of barcodes to manage suppliers is mainly to require suppliers to have barcodes for their supply goods in order to track the goods. Suppliers must clearly reflect the content of the barcode to the supermarket, and the supermarket will gradually place orders through the barcode of the product.

Side note: In modern society, information is critical. Because supermarkets use barcodes to manage goods and customers, supermarkets have a lot of accurate market supply and demand information. In foreign countries, supermarkets will sell this information to suppliers and market research companies for profit.

Employee management

The use of barcodes to manage employees is mainly used in administrative management. As a supermarket, it is a wise move to use the existing equipment in the supermarket for administrative management. The supermarket will use the existing NBS barcode image card making system to make an employee card for each employee. The card contains the employee's color photo, employee number, name, department, ID barcode and various unique marks.