How RFID And Barcode Technology Improve The Supply Chain?

Introduction. RFID technologies and their general characteristics. Barcode technologies and their general characteristics. Advantages and disadvantages of RFID and barcode technologies. Conclusion.

Today, bar coding remains the most common method of identifying goods of any group, including footwear, food. Well, the largest stores can afford to use RFID technology.

These days we are thankful for radio frequency identification because we can pay from smartphones, can open some doors, and charge smartphones. In the field of logistics radio frequency identification and barcodes play a very important role in the supply chain, with barcode technology what we see on packages in the shops or other places. In logistics we use a barcode used for warehousing, when we scan a barcode with a dedicated device called a barcode scanner we see where in the warehouse it should be to whom the package will be sent and much more information. With newer radio frequency identification methods we can do this much faster when many different packages lie on one palette and we can scan them all at once and see all the data on the computer, with barcode technology we can only scan one package.

Any RFID system consists of: RFID tags, antennas, readers, computer Database

In 1932, a linear code was developed, which became the basis of bar identification. The real use of the barcode was first found in the UK food industry with the introduction of the "Point of sale" linear code system. The innovation has become widespread in retail and wholesale trade, book publishing, packaging business. In the 1960s, the bar code was introduced in the US railway transport during the identification of railway cars. In the early 70s, the universal UPC (Universal Product Code) was adopted in the USA, which could be used both in industry and in trade. Currently, the UPC code is the standard code adopted in the USA. In 1977, the European Coding System EAN (European Article Numbering) was installed in Europe, which became the European coding standard. Despite the rather large variety of barcodes on all continents, in practice, when identifying goods, the EAN code is preferred over other codes, including in the USA, Japan and other countries. [9]

The similarity of the EAN and UPC codes is that they use the same set of characters for encoding – a certain set of strokes and spaces.

In Germany, the BAN code system, which was put into effect in 1968, still retains its place quite firmly.