Lot Identification Codes for Packaging

A method comprising:

• receiving, with a first computing system, attribute data associated with a lot identification code and further associated with a schema;
• creating a record in a computer-readable memory device that associates the lot identification code with the schema and the attribute data;
• and
• receiving, with a second computing system, the lot identification code and responsively
• using the lot identification code to locate the record in the computer-readable memory device,
• using the schema to extract a first string of digits and a second string of digits from the lot identification code, and
• sending at least a part of the attribute data from the second computing system.

A method comprising:

• receiving, with a first computing system, a schema;
• receiving, with the first computing system, a lot number, a date, a SKU, and attribute data, the lot number being associated with the date, SKU, and attribute data;
• and
• creating a lot identification code by
• deriving a first digit string from the SKU,
• deriving a second digit string from the lot number, and
• appending together the date and the first and second digit strings according to the schema to create a lot identification code;
• creating a record in a computer-readable memory device that associates the lot identification code with the attribute data.