GS1
Founded in 1977, GS1 is an international not-for-profit association dedicated to the development and implementation of global standards and solutions to improve the efficiency and visibility of supply and demand chains globally and across multiple sectors. The GS1 System of standards is the most widely-used supply-chain standards system in the world.
GS1's main activity is the development of the GS1 System, a series of standards designed to improve supply-chain management. The GS1 System is composed of four key standards: Barcodes (used to automatically identify things), eCom (electronic business messaging standards allowing automatic electronic transmission of data), GDSN (Global Data Synchronisation standards which allow business partners to have consistent item data in their systems at the same time) and EPCglobal (which uses RFID technology to immediately track an item).
GS1, formerly called 'EAN International', adopted the name 'GS1' in 2005. GS1 has its head office in Brussels. There are GS1 member organizations in 108 countries.
GS1 maintains a list of data identifiers (code prefixes) used by GS1 member organizations to assign company identifiers to their member companies enabling them to create GS1 compliant identification keys. Globally, GS1-standards are dependent of international standardisation bodies as with joint standards of ISO and IEC, as e.g. with ISO/IEC 11179 (metadata registries), ISO/IEC 15418 (data identifiers) and ISO/IEC 18000-6C (RFID air interfaces).
GS1 codes do not provide identification of country of origin for a given product. Member companies may manufacture products anywhere in the world.[1]
[edit] See also
- List of GS1 member organizations
- List of GS1 country codes
- Global Trade Item Number
- Global Document Type Identifier
- Global Location Number
- Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN)
- Global Electronic Party Information Register (GEPIR)
- Serial Shipping Container Code
- EPCglobal: global standards for RFID object tags
- Global Product Classification GPC
- GS1 US maintainer of Universal Product Code (UPC numbers)
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ BarCodes & Identification, gs1.org.
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