Today's society is constantly tending towards standardization and standardization. Through the vigorous publicity, promotion and practice of China's Article Numbering Center and sub-centers across the country, system integrators and Luyuan barcode suppliers, the application of barcode technology has been more and more popular. It is recognized and accepted by many people, especially the application of barcode technology in commodity circulation management has achieved very gratifying results. The bar code penetration rate of food, beverage, daily chemical products, construction market, clothing industry and other commodities is increasing day by day. Some large shopping malls that use barcode management in an all-round way (such as Yonghui Supermarket, Trust-Mart Supermarket, Wal-Mart Shopping Plaza, Metro Shopping Plaza and other well-known supermarkets and plazas that have realized full barcode management) have appeared in large and medium-sized cities. A model of application in commodity circulation management.

The benefits of applying barcode technology in commodity circulation management are obvious. It is not only convenient for sales, but also can avoid economic loss and management confusion caused by human errors, and can greatly improve work efficiency and management level.

At present, there are more than 100,000 enterprises applying for the use of commodity barcodes in my country, and more than one million kinds of product packages are printed with commodity barcodes. There are tens of thousands of supermarkets using barcode technology for automatic sales settlement. The barcode and automatic identification technology industry has begun to take shape in my country. scale. Its popularity has greatly improved the efficiency of the supply chain, but how to make better use of this information intelligence to serve enterprises while these hardware systems are becoming more and more perfect becomes the key to remain invincible in the competition. The application of my country's commercial POS system mainly has the following two types.

  1. Establishment of store automatic sales management system (POS)

The purpose of promoting barcodes on commodities is first of all to realize the automation of store management. In other words, it is necessary to realize the digitization of commodity management and the automation of external operations. In this process, the establishment of the POS system is very important. The POS system is also called the point of sale management system. It uses the cash register as a terminal to connect with the main computer, and uses photoelectric reading equipment to input commodity information for the computer.

Its establishment has rapidly improved work efficiency. Not only can it perform summary settlement, print shopping receipts, and give the sales volume and remaining inventory of the day, but also according to the large amount of commodity information collected, the sales terminal will give a comprehensive analysis report on commodity sales. Through the data on the report, merchants and wholesalers can better understand and analyze the existing operating conditions of stores, reduce inventory, reduce costs, and formulate marketing development strategies suitable for this period in time. At the same time, the POS system provides more satisfactory services to customers.

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For example: the POS system of a foreign supermarket shows that the sales volume of beer and diapers around Thanksgiving is higher than usual. The supermarket owner concluded through the POS data analysis that housewives usually go shopping in these days, leaving men behind. The family watches the kids and the men usually watch football and drink beer while babysitting. So this mall simply put beer and diapers together, so that men can get them easily, which greatly promoted sales. In addition, commodity manufacturers and suppliers can obtain accurate commodity and market sales information from the POS system, adjust production structure in time, and improve product competitiveness. The role of establishing a POS system is a link between the past and the future. It can not only promote the popularization of commodity barcodes, but also drive commercial electronic data interchange (EDI).

 2. Design of Barcode POS System

There is no difference in principle between the design of POS systems using barcodes and the design of general POS systems. The difference between the two is that the former uses the barcode as the front code, and automatically reads the barcode through the barcode reader, avoids the error of manual input, and improves the input speed and work efficiency, especially for supermarkets. Prominent, can greatly reduce the waiting time of customers shopping settlement.

For the selection of barcode readers, it is advisable to choose handheld barcode readers in large and medium-sized department stores, retail stores, specialty stores, etc., while in supermarkets it is advisable to choose laser flat barcode readers.

The interface between barcode reader, cash register and computer is usually divided into two types: keyboard emulation input and serial port input. In application programming, as long as you pay attention to what interface is used, programming is not difficult.

Therefore, commercial buildings, supermarkets, chain stores, specialty stores, retail stores, etc. that have realized computer management should seize the opportunity to promote the application of barcode management, and for commercial enterprises that have not realized computer management, they can consider using barcode management when designing computer management information. , In fact, using barcode management is not mysterious or difficult.

Barcode technology is also widely used in traffic management, financial document management, business document management, medical record management, blood bank blood management and various classification technologies. A method has been widely used by people and has penetrated into various fields of computer terminal management, and its commercial application potential is infinite.