The retail sector is continuously growing and evolving. ‘Beep’ of a barcode scan is heard over 6 billion times a day all across the world. Whether it is a neighbourhood kirana store, a supermarket or an e-commerce site, the customer wants a seamless shopping experience. GS1 standards for unique identification, standardised capturing and sharing of trusted data for products can help retailers provide a seamless consumer experience across platforms, besides improving processes efficiency.
Join the two million companies using GS1 barcodes worldwide.
Benefits
Uniquely identify products using GS1 barcodes or EPC/RFID
Faster Product Listing
Verifiable Product Information
Efficient Supply Chain Management
Better Inventory Visibility
Compliance with Regulatory Requirements
Retail Categories
Services for retail suppliers
Counterfeit Detection and Product Authentication
Authenticate genuineness of products by scanning its barcode
Inventory Visibility
Get insights on supply chain inventory to optimise demand forecasts
Recall
Improve the efficiency and speed of product recall operations
Future of On-pack Coding
Currently, there are number of codes and symbols printed on a product packaging. These include multiple barcodes, which includes that for product identification, traceability, communicating marketing information, etc. GS1 is partnering with industry to develop standards for on-pack coding to reduce the number of symbols on a package. The way forward is 2D barcodes that can be scanned and evaluated through multi devices across scanning environments.