GS1
GS1 is a neutral, not-for-profit, international organization that develops and maintains standards for supply and demand chains across multiple sectors.
With local Member Organizations in over 110 countries, GS1 works with communities of trading partners, industry organizations, governments and technology providers and responds to their business needs through the adoption and implementation of global standards.
GS1 has over a million member companies across the world, executing more than five billion transactions daily using GS1 standards.
GS1 standards
Most companies initially come to GS1 to get a bar code number for their products. However, GS1 standards provide a much wider framework for supply chain visibility. The current architecture of GS1 standards is as follows:
Identify: Standards for the identification of items, locations, shipments, assets, etc.. and associated data
Capture: Standards for encoding and capturing data in physical data carriers such as barcodes and RFID tags
Share: Standards for sharing data between parties