Scenarios
F&B: dealing with multiple UPCs
When the same product carries more than one barcode — and how Tangerine Star picks the one true scan target.
Worked example (coming soon). A real case from F&B where products came in carrying multiple UPCs — a vendor code, a manufacturer code, sometimes a re-used one. This scenario shows how Tangerine Star resolves them to a single, trustworthy scan target.
The situation
Barcodes are messier than they look. The same item can show up with different UPCs across vendors and orders, and occasionally two different items share one. If the wrong code becomes your scan target, the wrong product rings up. This scenario will walk how Tangerine Star records every identity it sees, ranks them by trust, and settles on one canonical barcode — without throwing away the history.
Full walkthrough in progress.