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Question: I sell 100 foot rolls* of tubing,
and the smallest unit of sale for me is one roll of 100 feet. However, my
customer may sell a complete roll or cut it into smaller portions, the smallest
being 1 foot. This is an industrial application, and the end unit does not cross
a retail point-of-sale counter. The question is, what bar code should I being
placing on my 100 foot roll?
Answer: There are two ways to handle this
situation.
1. Establish a 1 foot length as the smallest possible unit and
assign it a GTIN-13 (U.P.C. number) as a (unit of measure - "FT"). Even though
you will not be printing U.P.C. bar codes for this product (it hasn’t even been
cut yet), you will need to assign it a number.
This way your customer can use the GTIN-13 (U.P.C.) for both price and inventory
control. The bar code that you place on the 100 foot roll should be the GTIN-14
(formerly SCC-14) code with a package level indicator greater than zero (ex.
Packaging Indictor = 3).
This way your customer can use the U.P.C. for price and
inventory. The bar code that you place on the 100 foot roll should be the SCC-14
code with a package level indicator greater than zero (example PI 3).
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GTIN-13 (U.P.C.) |
7 65432 12345 C |
Q = 1 ft. |
1 ft. portion of tubing |
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GTIN-14 (SCC-14) |
3 07 65432 12345 C |
Q = 100 ft. |
(100) 1 ft. portions of tubing |
2. Establish 1 100 foot roll as the smallest unit and assign
it a GTIN-13 (U.P.C. number) as a (unit of measure = 1 each). Place a GTIN-13
bar code label on the roll. When your customer cuts the tubing into smaller
pieces, he will need to use a conversion formula inside his computer (at the
point of sale, the GTIN (U.P.C.) equals 1 ft. instead of 1 each) to convert the
unit of measure to feet (100 x .01).
Problems: If someone buys 1 complete roll, they may only be
charged for one foot. To prevent this, the computer system used at the point of
sale should force the clerk to enter a quantity.
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GTIN-13 (U.P.C.) |
7 65432 12345 C |
Q = 1 ea. |
100 ft. roll of tubing |
Note: The same situation may exist for a length of pipe. The
pipe may be sold by the manufacturer in 10 foot sections but sold by a
distributor in 1 foot sections.
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