Tuesday, June 24, 2014

The Uses Of A Wine Barcode

By Hilda Durham


Maybe you have noticed that every item you purchase in a store has a label with stripes across. This is very important for every item, since it consist numbers. The cashier mostly scanned the items and each price for the product comes up. These labels are usually called barcodes. These labels provide several uses for an item. A wine barcode is also stamped for every bottle.This is important for all retailers to have an easy access, especially in their inventory process by only scanning the bottles. This is very useful in the wine cellar management.

Mostly, the label on a bottle is called as the EAN barcodes and represents a series of numbers in the country of origin. It has also numbers of the winery to represent a wine. These numbers are not necessarily descriptive. To make use of the barcodes, there is a certain database made to find out the genuine meaning of these barcodes.

Due to the numerous beverages available in the market and several new wines are introduced, there is no fully or single database. There are wine cellar software programs that already created a barcode database, but usually the beverages you purchased is not yet available or displayed.

Generally, the whole process starts with the barcode data information the first bottle to be entered. The following bottles will also be entered through scanning with their barcodes to have a fully loaded field of data. This is important to extract the information of each barcode into the scanner and to have a proper record.

Entering the vintage is necessary, since there are some wineries that fail to make some distinctions between a good one for the labels. Some wines are sold even without the barcodes and the reason for its quality to be unrecognized. A bottle barcode is insufficient in a stock management in the cellars. That is why, second barcodes are carried to the bottle to complete the inventory.

Neck badges and self adhesive wrap tags are pre printed. Every tag has a unique number with a marker that replicates the number. These tags are created with details and information about the wines. The philosophy here is that every bottle is identified by their unique number and the label on tags is an assurance of accuracy and speed.

The scanners are very useful, especially in scanning for bottles to increase speed of the entry level of new wines to the cellar. When the new wines are already entered in the database, the number tags are also utilized for the bottles in a cellar.

There are seven digits in a badge and the three last digits can be read easily through the light of the cellar. The software chooses a beverage for the reading or scanning. After opening the bottles, you place each tag in a place. Take the tags to the computer by the use of a scanner and remove all the wines.

If there are numbered badges in most cellars that are not utilized, it means that it has an inventory failure. This will possibly occur if there is a lack of tags and an opened wine is not recorded. This will immediately lead to a breakdown in an inventory.




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