Hong Kong barcodes for fresh food - 香港新鮮食品條形碼

Hong Kong barcode EAN-13 GTIN-3 with national prefix 489

The barcode is the linear representation of the unique and standardized GTIN/EAN (Global Trade Idem Number) barcode numbers. 

Symbolically they represent the graphic part of the company licenses managed by GS1.

The Hong Kong barcodes for fresh food allows you to market your fresh products in traditional channel retailers and also in e-commerce platforms such as marketplaces.

The GTIN/EAN GS1 Hong Kong barcode for fresh food has a structure of digits that represent the country of origin, manufacturer number, product number and verification digit that allows data recording and optimal inventory control.

IF YOU NEED AN OFFICIAL NATIONAL BARCODE (PREFIX 489), TO BRING YOUR PRODUCT TO MARKET, CLICK HERE.

Supermarket with fresh foods (Hong Kong Barcodes)

Benefits

There are many benefits that you get by adopting the GTIN/EAN/EAN identification standard, some of which are:

To the manufacturer:

• Uniquely identify your products at different grouping levels, from your product, boxes, pallets and shipments.
• Ease of doing business around the worldExchange information with your business partner, knowing the inventory of your product in the markets.
• Provide credibility, professionalism and security to your productIt promotes greater control over the merchandise that moves at the point of sale to know with certainty what product you sell and in which place.
• Improves inventory control, warehouse and distribution.
• You get more and better information on market demand, so you can shorten order and delivery cycles.
• It simplifies the information process and reduces administration costs.

For the wholesaler:

• It speeds up the process of ordering, receipt and dispatch of merchandise, because the system facilitates the permanent control of inventories.
• Lowers administration costs.Improve inventory control.
• Streamline your delivery of merchandise to the customer, optimize other logistics processes.

For the retailer:

• Improve communication with carriers and retailers.
• Simplify and speed up price changes, saving on labeling costs.
• It obtains information by product and without errors, both in the reception and in the dispatch of the merchandise.
• Reduce administration costs.Improve communication with suppliers.
• The data obtained can be used to predict sales patterns and shorten replacement times.
• Greater use of space through better control of product rotation.
• Allows you to know the inventory available with your client for restocking purposes.
• Reduce the possibility of errors in the control of the information for the generation of orders and purchase orders by your client and for the issuance of your invoices.

For the consumer:

• You get fast service on your way through the point of sale.
• Typing price errors disappear.
• Obtain a detailed ticket of the items purchased.

Fresh foods sales need barcodes (mandatory)

GTIN/EAN Barcode Assignment Rules

1. Introduction of a new product

Any new fresh product requires the assignment of a new GTIN/EAN barcode for fresh foods.

2. Declared Function or Formulation

A change in formulation or functionality that affects the stated data legally required on a product's packaging and also where the brand owner expects the consumer's supply chain partner to tell the difference. Both conditions must be met and require the assignment of a new GTIN/EAN barcode for fresh foods.

3. Declared Content

Any change (increase or decrease) to the legally declared net content requirement that is printed on the package, requires the assignment of a new GTIN/EAN barcode for fresh foods.

4. Change of gross weight or dimensions

A change greater than 20% in physical dimension, on any axis, or gross weight, requires the assignment of a new GTIN/EAN barcode for fresh foods.

5. Add or remove a certification

A change in packaging by adding a new, or removing an existing certification symbol (for example, kosher, UL, or CE) that has significance to regulators, trading partners, or the end consumer, requires the assignment of a new GTIN/EAN barcode for fresh foods.

6. Primary Brand

A change to the primary brand that appears on the trade item requires the assignment of a new GTIN/EAN barcode for fresh foods.

7. Promotional products

A change to a product that is on sale (including changes to packages) for a specific event or date, which affects the management required by the supply chain to ensure that the trade item is on sale for a period of time of specified time, requires the assignment of a new GTIN/EAN barcode for fresh foods.

8. Pack quantity/box

A change in the number of trade items in a box or a change in the number of boxes in a predefined pallet requires the assignment of a new GTIN/EAN barcode for fresh foods.

9. Pre-defined assortment

Any change, addition or substitution of one or more trade items included in a pre-defined variety requires the assignment of a new GTIN/EAN barcode for fresh foods.

10. Price on the packaging

Any addition, modification or deletion of a price marked directly on the product package (not recommended), requires the assignment of a new GTIN/EAN barcode for fresh foods.

IF YOU NEED AN OFFICIAL NATIONAL BARCODE (PREFIX 489), TO BRING YOUR PRODUCT TO MARKET, CLICK HERE.

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