GS1 Standards
GS1 Standards form the foundation for efficient supply chains and increase efficiency in goods, information and value flows. You can use them, for example, to give products, sites and logistics units a unique global identification. You can then record that information with standardised data carriers, such as GS1 barcodes or RFID tags and share them easily with your trading partners.
In the age of Industry 4.0, digitalisation brings production, logistics and sales closer and closer together. In the future, machines and product components will have to communicate with each other globally, independently, fluently and efficiently via computers. That creates vast amounts of data. The fact is, nothing works without standards. For more than 40 years, the global GS1 community has been successfully developing principles and solutions for standardised economic processes. A common language is important when it comes to applying them.
GS1 – The Global Language of Business
This common language was first used successfully in the consumer goods industry. But GS1 Standards are not limited to consumer goods: GS1 is sector neutral and not bound to the interests of one single industry. The GS1 system is, therefore, designed in such a way that it can be used in any sector of the economy and in any industry. It applies in particular to the transport and logistics sectors, technical industries or even healthcare. Changes are decided together with the users and introduced in such a way that there is no negative impact on pre-existing implementations.