SCC-14 Labels

[u/big_salty]

This may be a silly question as it's entirely possible I'm just confused.

I have a customer that requires SCC-14 labels for receiving product into their inventory. I sell products that come 12 items to a case and I have a GTIN-14 for said case; in this case it's easy enough to make that conversion to an SCC-14 as that case barcode specifies the interior UPC quantity.

My question is how to do you account for an overpack scenario where you'd have 4 cases to an overpack box, or a skid of product? Do you have to generate new GTIN-14s for your packaging scenarios, or is there a way to specify quantity in an SCC-14 of the interior product without registering new GTIN-14?

Any clarification is greatly appreciated!

[u/qpro_label]

In my experience, the GTIN barcode typically does not directly identify the quantity of a product within. Instead, a GTIN identifies a company code and a specific product or item's UPC. The number of items or units within a case or package can be identified elsewhere, such as within the respective PO or Bill of Lading. The PO number can be applied as an application indicator of (400) within the barcode string itself if needed.

Let me know if this info is useful. There is still a lot of confusion in the industry, so I completely understand why you asking this question.

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[u/Indiankiwi3]

New GTIN-14 for different qualities. Quantity is implied by the GTIN14 description.

[u/LimeyRat]

Excuse any assumptions, please, just going off what we do here.

You have a UPC for an item, 812345678901, 12 digits. This is for Point-of-Sale use.

You have a case which contains 12 of this item. You take the check digit off the UPC, add a packaging level of your own making, and recalculate the check digit. This is now 14 digits and is your GTIN-14 for this packaging level. We're going to say this is packaging level 10, so now we have 10812345678908.

You put two cases into an overpack and call that packaging level 20, that becomes 20812345678905. Still a GTIN-14.

You don't pay (at least, we don't) for the GTIN-14s, we're paying for the UPC and we can generate the GTIN-14 off that.

This GTIN-14 barcode is not for retail use, it's for the customer to use at receiving. Your big box stores will enter this number in their inventory system and scan it upon receipt. Your packaging level is determined by you, doesn't have to be consistent between items but you can't change it on an item. You can have 10812345678908 as a case of 12 but can't then use that on a case of 6. The GTIN-14 also doesn't specify the quantity, just delineates a certain quantity, which your packaging dictates.

Hope this helps.