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New!! Supply Chain Bar Code and RFID Application Poster There are many ways to identify a pallet, carton, inner pack and item correctly. Unfortunately, there are also many ways to do it wrong. EC Workshops has created a poster that allows you to answer simple questions: Is this a carton? Is there just one item in the carton? Will it be scanned at Point of Sale? Based on your answers, you can determine the type of EAN.UCC data structure and the correct symbology for your supply chain application.

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How do you know what you don't know? Some of the things you need to know: The Industrial Supply Association's new eBusiness Guidelines Retail, Grocery, and the Department of Defense RFID requirements How to assign an EPC* to cartons and pallets How to exchange RFID information in EDI How to assign, store and process Global Trade Item Numbers (GTIN) and Global Location Numbers (GLN) What changes for Sunrise 2005 How to mark custom, one-of-a-kind industrial supply items Which GTIN's are approved for Point of Sale (POS) scanning How to send compliant EDI 856 Ship Notices and bar code shipping labels Why you should continue to invest in EDI for specific applications Who is using XML now; for which applications How international RFID, EDI, and XML standards are created How to keep up with new standards developments

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Electronic Data Interchange - regular business documents in standard file formats

eXtensible Markup Language - programming language for exchanging business data

Electronic Product Codes - data contents and structure for RFID tags

GS1 - The new name for the combined Uniform Code Council and EAN International

Radio Frequency Identification - RF devices read ID information written on a chip in an RFID tag

Global Trade Item Number - globally unique part number built with your EAN.UCC prefix

Global Location Number - globally unique ID for locations and business entities

EAN.UCC - EAN-International and the Uniform Code Council manage international standards and specifications for bar codes, Global Data Synchronization, RFID, GTIN, GLN, etc.

EAN.UCC Global Registry - Global Registry that houses GTIN's and GLN's

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