Talking about the Application of Bar Code Technology in Food Industry

Identify instances that combine special production with EDI

The main chocolate-sugar factory, PALMER's customers, began to demand delivery when they arrived at a store or wholesale center. Using technology and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technology, Bermeer meets the requirements of these customers.

Bertelsmann, head of MIS Sugar Beans Production at Bermeer, said: “The most effective result of EDI is that we can keep our customers and avoid penalties for failing to meet customer requirements. We don’t want to imagine if not What will happen to this set."

“Our majority of our customers have never requested delivery before, and the UPC code printed on the side of all our candy boxes is enough for them. But nowadays wholesales,” said Ke Li Ni, head of EDI at Birminger. Centers and EDI require more information to be quickly collected."

Bermer has a broad customer base, including discounted retail stores and pharmacies in the United States, as well as customers in Canada, Mexico, and Russia, and even within the U.S. military’s internal stores. The larger retailers in the world have very strict requirements on suppliers. If the supplier fails to provide proper, it will be fined and may eventually lose business opportunities.

Under the drive of customers, Bermeer hopes to meet the requirements of every customer in any training. In order to achieve this goal, Bermer has to find a flexible, it must be able to meet many different requirements in the company's production process.

Production of delivery

Bermer's delivery process improves as technology advances. It evolved from the development of the wax plate to the use of customized, and finally printed at the shipping site by manually posted on the box. The next step is to enter.

Tesseller's manager said: "We were not very flexible in the past. We cannot respond quickly to changes in customer requirements." To adapt a company to the company's application needs, it is necessary to consider the company's position. Each Bermeer customer has a format. The product was completed in the company's warehouse. Nearly half of the cargo had a special 128-kilometer delivery for customers. These were for EDI use. More and more customers are demanding special delivery. Other Bermer customers may not have requested this, but they also have their own requirements, including special product descriptions. Bermeer must meet these requirements.

In addition to dealing with different formats, different products and specifications, Bermer also requested that this order be added to improve the accuracy of delivery. Orders are transferred from the company's main computer AS/400 operations to a warehouse. In the database.

Finally, the Bermer company's production has a strong seasonality, and there will be a peak of production before each festival. The last requirement of this new set is that this should be able to work continuously during peak production periods.

Solve the problem

Bermeer is no stranger to the product. Bermer has two operations centers in Pennsylvania. The 200,000-square-foot production facility currently has eight production lines and the other one is being installed. Here, countless candies are produced, packed, and shipped to warehouses on the other side of the city.

It is clear that large quantities are needed in this workshop. There are two dot-machines, and three thermal switches. They work in the factory's printing room. Need to print UPC, nutrients, prices, some boxes containing cross-five symbols and delivery Cabinets.

The second location of the Bermer company is a 330,000-square-foot warehouse where products waiting to be shipped are stored. This is where Bermeer seeks to improve. In view of its long-term relationship with Weber, Bermeer has asked it to help improve the warehouse.

The production meets the customer's requirements

Bermeer's design is entirely based on customer requirements. Each customer's requirements are different, Bermeer company to meet the existing requirements of each customer, at the same time to adapt to all new customer requirements. The Bermer Company is completing the installation work during Burma's busy Thanksgiving production period. It includes two high-speed printing/posting machines and two Weber specially designed item transfer devices. These online, on-site high-speed printing and signing, and with continuous accuracy. All networking through Weber's special software has become the key to the new whole.

Bermeer works in the IBM AS/400 environment. All relevant customer information and order history are stored in the production workshop. The information is updated every day. Every day, ASII files with orders that need to be shipped are transferred to a personal computer in the warehouse. Each file is matched with a special truck delivery slip. The file contains the carrier's serial number, product number, the number of cartons, and the location of the arrival.

Bermer uses Weber's design software package to control all its printing. In this way, any of more than 50 formats can be extracted, generated, and modified in its two company locations.