Why do we use barcodes in scripts.....

[Former Member]

Hi experts,

I want to know the reason why we use barcodes in scripts and smartforms.Generally barcodes are used to print Material no and batch numb on covers of any product.So what is the neccessity to print these in scripts and smartforms.

Thanks in advance

Badri

[Former Member]

The scripts and smartforms you print, can be Labels to the shipments/parcels. What you see on covers of products, is a barcode alright, but the cover itself can be generated by a smartform/sapscript.

The basic use of a bar code is to provide machine readability.(Only machines can read that).

Regards,

ravi

[Former Member]

Consider if you are using Scanner for scanning a particular material then there shuld be some lable with which it has to be detected... so in order words it is for machine to read that particular material ...

[Former Member]

Hi,

When say barcode is used in Purchase order Forms, and a third party tool reads this barcode information. It can get all the details regarding this Purchase order.

This is one of the reasons.

Regards

Subbu

[Former Member]

HI,

A barcode label is a special symbology to represent human readable information such as a material number or batch number

in machine readable format.

There are different symbologies for different applications and different industries. Luckily, you need not worry to much about that as the logistics supply chain has mostly standardized on 3 of 9 and 128 barcode symbologies - which all barcode readers support and which SAP support natively in it's printing protocols.

Barcodes are nothing more than a font definition and is part of the style sheet associated with a particular SAPScript form. The most important aspect is to place a parameter in the line of the form that points to the data element that you want to represent as barcode on the form, i.e. material number. Next you need to set the font for that parameter value to one of the supported barcode symbologies.

Behind every output form is a print program that collects all the data and then pass it to the form. The form contains the layout as well as the font, line and paragraph formats. These forms are designed using SAPScript (a very easy but frustratingly simplistic form format language) or SmartForms that is more of a graphical form design tool.

http://www.sap-img.com/abap/details-information-about-sap-barcodes.htm

Thanks

Sudheer

[Former Member]

Go into a busy warehouse. Scanners are used for everything. Employees can scan a delivery note number, scan material numbers, key in a quantites, and complete a picking process with minimal keystrokes.

During a goods receipt, scanning in purchase order numbers and material numbers increases performance and reduces errors.

Barcoding speeds up processing and usually reduces errors made by manual keyboard entry.

[Former Member]

Hi,

When you Generate Barcodes from scripts , you will use them while packing the orders.

advanatages of using BARCODES

1. Non readable format, no one knows what is there in side

2. only machines can read.

3. when you use Barcodes human work reduces, Barcode can store more info, so programs which can read the barcode can read the info and store it in DB.

less manuall work(no typing required , typing errors can be avoided).

Regards

vijay