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A Zebra Technologies White Paper

Zebra’s Upload Solution: Zebra

BAR-ONE for mySAP™ Business Suite

Zebra BAR-ONE for mySAP™ Business Suite is a

software product from Zebra Technologies for bar

code label design and output in the SAP environment.

The main attributes that set this approach apart from

others are that no manual modiﬁcations or scripting is

required. This means that the end user does not need

to become an expert in ZPL and may not even need any

SAPscript experience. Label formats can be created

in a fraction of the time it would take to generate and

continually modify SAPscript.

Labels are designed in the BAR-ONE software

environment and uploaded to the SAP system through

the mySAP Business Suite Windows

client. The BAR-

ONE software takes care of the conversion from the

desktop design environment to SAP compatibility by

automatically generating SAPscript in mySAP

Business Suite

Internal Text Format (ITF). The SAP system can direct

bar code label output to Zebra printers at any enterprise

location. A single license of the bar code design

software is all that is required and covers printing at all

enterprise locations.

See the “Zebra BAR-ONE for mySAP™ Business Suite”

white paper for a more comprehensive description of

the solution and its beneﬁts. This white paper, as well

as a demo of the software, can be downloaded by

visiting www.zebra.com/smartforms. Zebra’s BAR-ONE

for mySAP™ Business Suite can also be used to design

labels for Zebra’s ZPL-enabled mobile printers such as

the QL 420™. Visit www.zebra.com to learn about ZPL-

enabled mobile printers.

Third-Party Bar Code Software

for Upload

Independent software vendors offer PC-based bar code

label design and output software designed to provide

similar functionality as BAR-ONE. Most packages offer

general-purpose label design and printing features.

The main beneﬁt these packages provide is that one

software package can be used to create labels for

printers from different vendors.

However, there are drawbacks to a multiple vendor

environment. Third-party upload software requires

modiﬁcations to labels to be made manually in the

design output ﬁle. Therefore, users need programming

capabilities for each printer control language that is

used. In addition, once ﬁles are manually modiﬁed they

cannot be changed within the label design application,

because all manual modiﬁcations would be lost.

Output Management Software

Output management software serves as middleware

for processing SAP data into bar code format for

output in speciﬁc printer languages. SAP’s own Smart

Forms and Interactive Forms products are essentially

forms output management applications that are tightly

integrated with the SAP enterprise system. Third-party

output management applications for use with mySAP

Business Suite are available from Adobe, FormScape,

Optio, StreamServe, and other ISVs.

Output management software can tremendously

improve the readability of forms and documents and

adds powerful font and graphics capabilities to SAP

output. Multiple document printers and technologies

are typically supported. However, because the software

is forms oriented, support is usually stronger for

ofﬁce printers than for bar code label printers. Now

that Smart Forms and Interactive Forms have native

ZPL support, output can be directed to ZPL printers in

addition to devices that can process PostScript, PCL,

and Adobe PDF ﬁles.

Unless Smart Forms or Interactive Forms are used,

the output management approach gives users another

software application to license, learn, implement,

roll-out, and maintain. It also introduces another layer

to the print system, which can slow performance.

The features and beneﬁts of output management

applications vary by vendor and should be investigated

thoroughly if this approach is considered.

PC-Based Labelling Software

(Middleware)

Another third-party option is to use bar code labelling

software that resides outside the SAP system, normally

running as a Windows service, and communicates print

jobs through a network connection. Middleware on a

Windows Server box processes SAP data, formats it

into a bar code label, and directs it to the appropriate

printer for output. The third-party application is

responsible for monitoring the SAP system to pick up

and process any print jobs that have been sent.

This labelling software middleware approach enables

enterprise print operations to be managed centrally.

The solutions are also frequently used in mixed-printer

environments where SAP output is directed to label

printers from different manufacturers.

The amount of integration required to connect third-

party labelling middleware with SAP applications varies

by solution. All will require some additional software,

and may also require the use of a dedicated server

or PC.

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