GS1 -- The "all-rounder" who is active in all fields

GS1 is the "unified global identification system" managed by the International Article Coding Association, which is collectively known as the "commodity bar code" in our country. The GS1 system is an open system with trade items, logistics units, locations, assets, service relationships and product electronic codes as the core, and automatic data acquisition technologies such as bar codes and radio frequency identification as one, to realize electronic data exchange and serve the society in many fields.

Today, GS1 has been active in various fields of society, from food traceability, healthcare and other industries to commercial retail, logistics, e-commerce implementation and iot identification, etc., GS1 is indispensable everywhere. Below, let's take a look at how GS1 has become a versatile player in all areas of society.

Food traceability

With the improvement of people's living standards, people's awareness of food safety has gradually increased, and food safety issues have attracted widespread attention. The GS1 global traceability standard proposed by the International Article Coding Society (GS1) provides a complete solution for food safety traceability. Bar codes act as the only "ID card" for food, marking all links of the food processing, storage, transportation and other parts of the supply chain, and recording relevant information such as food batch number and expiration date. Once consumers encounter problem food, they can scan the barcode to realize layer by layer traceability, find out the source of the problem, so that enterprises can quickly withdraw the same batch of problem food, maximize the loss of enterprises, and protect the rights and interests of consumers.

Food quality and safety traceability based on GS1 can effectively improve the quality supervision and food safety management ability of government departments, improve social and economic benefits, and provide strong support for quality traceability in China.

Medical and health care

"If a man eats five grains, who is immune?" The application of GS1 in the medical and health industry is closely related to people's life and health, which can better guarantee the medical health of patients. Commodity bar code -- the unique identity identifier of the whole life cycle of drugs and medical devices, which can uniquely identify each link of drugs and medical devices from production to use. Among them, the UDI (medical equipment unique identifier) is put forward by the GS1 commodity bar code in one application in the medical industry, through the unique identification of the medical device, automatic data collection and storage data information of each link, ensure medical equipment from the manufacturer, distributor, shippers, medical and health institutions to the final of patients, each link is the "source". Nowadays, medical safety accidents are frequent. With the support of GS1, it is possible to find the problem quickly and accurately through commodity barcode, efficiently recall and reversibly investigate the source of responsibility, and ensure the life safety of patients.

With the continuous promotion of GS1 in the medical and health field, GS1 has been praised by enterprises in the aspects of pharmaceutical logistics informatization, pharmaceutical retail POS settlement, Chinese medicinal materials tracing, medical devices tracing, cosmetics market supervision and so on. The application of GS1 in the medical and health field can be expected in the future.

Commercial retail

"Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are indispensable", we often choose to go to the supermarket to buy these daily necessities. Settlement in the supermarket, the salesman with scan code for the goods packaging commodity barcodes on simple swept away, from the background database corresponding commodity information, finally in the form of price to the POS, to sweep all the goods code, the total price is output to the computer terminal automatically, quickly finish goods and settlement. The barcode of commodity can not only reduce the waiting time of customers in line and increase customer satisfaction, but also improve the efficiency of retail settlement in supermarkets. After the completion of the sales settlement, each sale information can be transmitted to the retailer's internal management system in real time through the commodity bar code, so that the management personnel can understand the operation information of the stores at any time, establish a reasonable commodity marketing plan, timely replenishment and transfer of goods, reduce the product inventory, and improve the management efficiency.

Driven by the digital economy, the new retail era has come. The GS1 system, which is composed of coding system, data carrier system and data exchange system, will play a more important role in the future as an extremely key information and standardization technology.

logistics

With the rapid development of mobile Internet and e-commerce, the logistics industry is developing more and more rapidly under the promotion of both. GS1 has been widely used in the logistics process of packaging, sorting, warehousing, wholesale, distribution, etc., bringing new economic growth points for the logistics industry. In the process of logistics, the sorting, delivery, inventory, replenishment, delivery, receipt and return of goods can be quickly realized by scanning the barcode of goods on the packing box and pallet, which saves a lot of manpower, material resources and time. At the same time, it can also automatically collect commodity information, upload the information to the enterprise information system, analyze and process the data information, provide accurate and timely information for product quantity statistics and prediction, reduce logistics costs and improve enterprise management efficiency at the same time.

Standardized use based on the needs of the rapid circulation of goods, commodity code is the trend of The Times, only in the production, transportation, warehousing, distribution and logistics each link USES unified commodity barcodes, enhance the level of consumer goods distribution automation, informationization in our country and to create more profits for enterprise, bring more benefits to the logistics industry, to create more value for consumers.

The electronic commerce

With the in-depth promotion of e-commerce platform marketing activities such as "June 18", "Double 11" and "Double 12", online shopping has been deeply popular, which further promotes the rapid development of e-commerce. As the only "ID card" and international "pass" in the field of online circulation of e-commerce products, commodity barcode is playing an increasingly important role in international trade. In the era of "Internet +", it has become an inevitable trend for e-commerce platforms to use commodity bar codes to realize automatic collection of commodity data, accurate warehousing, fast search, online store management, O2O and other application modes. GS1 enables the commodities provided by e-commerce enterprises to be unimpeded in any country and region in the world. Whether online or offline product circulation, e-commerce enterprises can maintain the consistency of transaction subjects, reduce operating costs, improve transaction efficiency, and truly realize paperless trade.

With the support of GS1, e-commerce products can be documented and traced wherever they go, making the whole circulation visible and transparent, helping e-commerce break through the "bottleneck", ensuring product quality and smoothly realizing cross-border trade.

Internet of Things logo

In the Internet of Things, "things" refers to objects, which can be digitized by coding them. With the opening of the gate of cloud technology and Internet of Things, the era of "Internet of everything and intelligent Internet" is coming. GS1 provides the underlying standardized coding and identification technology support for the Internet of Things to realize the Internet of everything, and provides basic data for the transmission, acquisition and processing of information in the Internet of Things. Applying GS1 to the identification of the Internet of Things, and then establishing the coding system of the Internet of Things in China, can not only provide the overall "one thing, one code" solution for different enterprises, meet the application requirements of various industries of the Internet of Things, but also realize information interconnection and data sharing in different fields, which is of great significance for the realization of collaborative work.

As the link of the Internet of everything, GS1 integrates product data, marketing data, logistics data, warehousing data and other static and dynamic commodity data in the product ecological chain, which will further help the country to establish the big data ecosystem of the Internet of everything.

With the continuous advancement of social informatization and intelligence, the application fields of GS1 are also being further expanded. GS1 can be seen in industrial Internet, prefabricated buildings, smart transportation, Internet finance and other fields. We believe that the in-depth application of GS1 will make our life smarter and better.

Having introduced so much, do you think GS1 can live up to the title of "all-around master" in various fields?