GS1 India Suite of services

Company prefix allocation

GS1 India allocates and administers GS1 company prefix number to organisations to enable them generate unique and universal identification numbers for their products, consignments, locations, etc.

Barcode verification reports

These reports provided by GS1 India give details on print contrast, magnification, bar height, bar width, light margins, quite zones, check digit etc. to international standards using latest barcode verifiers.

Guidance on Implementation

GS1 India provides technical guidance in implementation of the following:

• GS1 barcodes on retail, trade and logistic units.

• EDI using EANCOM standards (subset of UN/EDIFACT) and XML standards for web based EDI.

GEPIR service

Hosting of company and product information, which connects GS1 India subscribers with 1 million other GS1 member companies across 101 countries.

EPC based services

GS1 India is administering the EPC system in India activities include providing subscription services to  solution providers and end user companies in India, allocation of  of EPC manager numbers for end users, awareness and educational activities focused on accelerating the adoption of electronic product code (EPC) standards related RFID technology in India.

Regular updates

GS1 India website is regularly updated with the latest information on :

• International best practice in use of standards and IT tools in supply chains.

• Product and location identification standards.

• Efficient consumer response (ECR) tools, case studies and referrals.

• Emerging trends in automatic data capture technologies (barcoding, RFID) and B2B exchanges.

• Hyperlinks to websites of GS1 member organisations worldwide.

Other subscriber services.

• Helpdesk

• Workshops on use of GS1 system across Industry sectors.

• Updates on ECR India activities and International developments in ECR.

• Major International developments in SCM standards.