1. Physical means of traceability

1.1 Barcodes

In the introduction to his book Barcode , Pierre Georget reveals how the barcode was born: "On the beach in Miami, where Joe Woodland, was trying to answer the question put to him by the owner of a local chain of grocery stores: how to easily identify each product at the checkout?" Planting his five fingers in the sand and pulling them towards him, he drew a succession of broad and thin lines... And thus the first barcode was born!

Since then, many new bar codes have appeared: more than 250 have been inventoried. They fall into three categories: linear codes (two of five,...

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(1) - GEORGET (P.) - Code à barres. - Berg International (2008).
(2) - EYMERY (P.) - La stratégie logistique, - Collection Que sais-je ? (2003).
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