EPCIS (Electronic Product Code Information Services) is GS1’s flagship data-sharing standard for enabling visibility across an entire supply chain, providing information on the ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘where’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of products and other assets. It enables accurate capture and sharing of interoperable information about status, location, movement and chain of custody. EPCIS provides organisations/industries with additional transparency of the products they manufacture and distribute.
GS1 recognises the constant evolution of business requirements and of the technologies businesses everywhere have come to rely upon. EPCIS supports industry in providing additional transparency about the things they manufacture and distribute. As industry continues its digital transformation to more sustainable and circular supply chains, GS1 has answered this need with improvements to EPCIS. Trading partners now have a standardised method of including sensor data and product and process certifications in their event messages – further enabling use of a common language between systems that must communicate effectively.
