We're trying to decide whether to use our own custom made item numbers and then create barcodes from those or use the barcodes from the UPC labels that come on the product. What would any of you experienced people suggest?
In our business we chose to use our own numbers as much as possible for several reasons:
Our business is very customer specific, where each customer has a different set of tolerances (almost project based, but not completely). If your goods are more like commodities (consumer goods) then it is very viable to use the UPC code. In my experiance if you can find the right person to talk to functionally, whether it is a sales person or someone in opperations, then you can find your answer because he/she has been at another company which used the UPC as thier item number.
I hope that helps.
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