Trying not to hijack the thread here, as I’ve been having a think about this also (we’re just starting our journey to using MES).
Would there be an opportunity to configure a prefix into the barcode (some barcode guns can also prefix/suffix scans as well), and having the barcode contain a series of Key:Value pairs that MES could process into the desired fields? Rather than depending on the fields to always be in the correct order to ‘Tab’ through them…
Hoping to work on a Proof-of-Concept to validate this idea, in the coming weeks.