Application of barcodes to interfaced assets

These are the methods you can use to assign a barcode to an item. You must manually provide the barcode in the Barcode field of the item:

• If the items already have non-Infor barcodes and you want to keep them, then specify the appropriate barcode in each item barcode field. When the item is interfaced to Asset Accounting as part of an asset, the barcode is assigned to the asset in Asset Accounting and can never be assigned again.
• To add new item barcodes to each interfaced item, you must perform these actions:
  1. Request as many barcodes as you require from the barcode printer.
  2. Affix a barcode, in any order, to each item. Take note of the number of the barcodes that you add to each item.
  3. For each item, manually specify the barcode in the Barcode field of the non-Infor or Infor item interface file. After the items are interfaced to Asset Accounting as part of an asset, the barcode is assigned to the asset. The barcode cannot be used again.

The Asset Accounting barcoding solution requires each item barcode to be unique within Asset Accounting. If you are using a mix of non-Infor and Infor barcodes, then you must first interface the assets that have existing barcodes. The barcodes must be assigned in asset accounting before you request Infor barcodes for the other asset items. If you do not interface existing barcodes first, then you risk having duplicate barcodes.