Commodity bar code applications in the apparel industry in the discussion (on)

The second quarter of 2002, Article Numbering Center of China Shanghai Branch of the Shanghai Garment enterprise bar code applications to carry out research, and with the relevant industry associations and research institutions were discussed.

At present, Shanghai Garment, apparel companies about the number of more than 4,000 (including production, distribution, clothing and apparel products integrated enterprise), where clothing, apparel products for the main product is about 2000; about 600 to 700 footwear companies family (including production and distribution of footwear products integrated enterprises), which for the main footwear about 300. Commodity bar code system in Shanghai, clothing, apparel industry, about 700 members of the system (including integrated companies), about 100 members of the footwear system. In response to this situation, we adopt issuing questionnaires, visits to enterprises, as well as discussions with the members of the system visited supermarkets, etc., in Shanghai Apparel companies use bar code made a more detailed investigation.

First, clothing, apparel enterprise bar code usage

    We are members of the system random distribution garment 300 questionnaires, focus visited five members of the system, a hypermarkets, and went to the Institute of Clothing and Apparel Industry Association. Several research methods, we understand a large number of garment enterprises of information.

1, the basic situation of garment enterprises

1) the largest share of the private sector

    Private economy in the apparel, apparel industry account for a large proportion. This is mainly due to clothing, apparel products are labor-intensive products, but also to respond quickly to changing market conditions, the private sector in this respect there is a certain advantage. But although the number of small state-owned enterprises, its sales is not small, such as Shanghai Three Gun (Group) Co., Ltd. 2001 annual sales of 800 million yuan, Shanghai Silk (Group) Co., Ltd. in 2001 sales of $ 700 million. This also shows that state-owned enterprises are still clothing apparel enterprises an important force.

2) most product variety of styles in 1000 kinds of the following

    Most clothing, apparel enterprise product specifications, colors, fabrics are in the 10 to 100 species, with most comprehensive variety of styles in 1000 kinds of colors or less. This is for us an important revelation: In the past, many garment enterprises reflect commodity item code 10000 resources are not enough to say may differ from the actual reason enough, 3) stores, counters is the most important sales of clothing products the way

    The vast majority of enterprises have a variety of apparel products sales, but in the store, most counter sales; followed in supermarket sales. In stores, the benefits of counter sales, the vendors can most timely and demand information learned most detailed product sales and customer, which is characterized by attributes and clothing products bar code applications, providing the necessity and possibility.

2, enterprise bar code usage

1) The majority of members of the system has enabled the application product code

    From the results of the feedback questionnaires and focus visited enterprises, the majority of garment enterprises in Shanghai has been legally enabled manufacturer identification codes and commodity bar code applications. Product product code coverage up to 100% of the lot. However, there are also individual companies earlier application product code, due to the production adjustment mode of operation and other reasons, but not normally enabled product barcode.

2) Clothing product's bar code application feature attribute has a solid foundation

    In this research the clothing business, a total of seven on their clothing products in use meaningful product characteristics encoded barcode properties, and in the production, sale, storage and other aspects of management to get a better application. Individual companies also use the same product at the same time the product features and attributes barcode product bar code, and both establish a certain contact, namely: bar code product features attribute in part as species, seasonal, style, style number corresponds to a product barcode , and the color, size and other information not included in the commodity bar coding considerations. These factors indicate that Shanghai garment enterprises in the product characteristic attributes the bar code applications have a certain foundation.

3, the use of bar code problem

1) is not standardized commodity bar coding

    Some clothing companies will show off their goods as a bar code identification of product quality, or the same as a trademark for the same product barcode all products of the same brand, some companies even only by the use of different prices to different product code.

2) product barcode data backward management

    From research and garment enterprises, the product code has been used in garment enterprises, more than half have not established product barcode database on the computer. Some brief record in the record book, or even a used number is also not recorded. Even on the establishment of a computer database of goods, nor a clothing company truly endowed by computer. This product bar code data management means backwardness, is an important cause of many garment companies feel that a strict "a product of a code" is endowed way unacceptable. Better product bar code data management business, its barcode endowed work is relatively standardized. For example, Shanghai Three Gun (Group) Co., Ltd., since the establishment of a more complete product code database, eight years have been used 13700 goods bar code in endowed also did not encounter much difficulty. Some work done better endowed members of the system and the use of computer management of new applications in recent years, has so far only a few hundred numbers, numbers more than enough resources. Many clothing companies because there is no established commodity bar code database, while hundreds of thousands of product bar code data will find it difficult to manage.

3) product characteristic attributes barcode encoded with a certain arbitrariness

    Using the product characteristic attributes barcode garment enterprises in encoding will generally breed, color, style and other factors into account, but other elements, such as elements of the coding gender, season, fabrics, manufacturers (suppliers), number, etc. is more casual , the difference between different elements of the larger companies considered; for the same element, such as style, fabric, different companies describe methods vary greatly, the code represents the way is also different; duplication between some elements, such as coding have been considered Num. variety, style and other attributes of apparel products, product features and attributes of the bar code contains the number, variety, style and other factors. All this shows that clothing enterprises with a certain randomness in the product bar code encoding property characteristics, need to regulate.

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