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December 6, 2005 Efficient Food Service Response. EFR (A Valuable Resource) In the scouring of the web for good cost cutting information we discovered EFR, as referenced above. This is an organization sponsored by 6 major trade Organizations, one of which is the UCC organization that works with industries to set bar code standards. This is a great site to learn about the latest advances in cost cutting that the big guys are looking at to make themselves more efficient. The following information is being reprinted from the Executive Summary from an article they published called "Standard Product Identification and Bar Codes: The Cornerstone of EFR". What are the Benefits of Bar Coding Products? Bar coding products allows for information to be captured immediately once the product is scanned, thus eliminating the need to manually read and key the information into your systems. This information is not limited to just the identification of the product, but can include additional attributes of that product that are needed for a handler of that product. This is beneficial for members throughout the supply chain that physically handle the product. It will also reduce the labor associated with manually keying in the information and the time spent on errors caused by mis-keying the data. EFR has identified a potential savings of over $847 million annually for bar coding products.
The distributor gets most of the savings from bar coding products due to handling the products twice: once when receiving from the supplier and again when shipping to the operator.
The number of business functions bar coding can impact is almost endless. Bar coding offers a tremendous opportunity to have information about those products automatically captured and to receive the benefits derived from scanning bar codes each time the product is handled. As you can see the numbers are huge and these were done in 1997 which means the savings are at least 25% more just through inflation. Processors should adopt these published standards and the distribution channel should put pressure on their suppliers to adopt these standards. The variable weight (UCC 128) standard is even more critical because the use of this standard incorporates the catch weight and the recall data for HAACP. The only way to survive is to bring more efficiencies into the supply chain.
BAR CODE EFFICIENCIES ARE $$$$ IN YOUR POCKET
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