Logistics Basic Data (LO-MD)

Contraction of the EAN category for normal UPCs. The EAN is entered and displayed in a shortened format consisting of one leading zero, a six-figure EAN code, and a single-figure check digit. However, it is stored in the database in the long format like the existing EAN category for UPCs.

The advantage of this EAN category is that a UPC-E can be entered more quickly and that the UPC-E occupies less space, for example, on labels on small articles.