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Multi-Stakeholder Traceability System Ensuring Efficiency in Healthcare Supply Chain Management Amidst COVID Crisis

 The way COVID-19 impacted the world, altered every projection made by Deloitte or McKinsey for the Healthcare supply chain . While the world economy came to an almost halt due to the pandemic, the healthcare supply chain faced unprecedented challenges that are continuing to date. A spike in requirements for essentials medicines and personal protective equipment (PPE) appeared, while the major supplying country for the same dealt with controlling the pandemic. The sudden emergence of a novel virus infection without a cure created a dire need for a vaccine to save the patients. COVID-19 wasn’t a nation-wide tragedy, but a global disaster with no cure or preparations, and the chaos followed worldwide. Apart from the lack of essential medicines and PPEs kits, another major challenge for the healthcare industry is the invention of the COVID vaccine, followed by its distribution to the world. With the creation of the vaccine, its counterfeit products will appear in the market, adding detect
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GS1 Standards Can Support Your Business Grow Efficient

 India is expected to be a $5 trillion economy by 2025, and SMEs are making the major contribution towards this milestone. Thousands of SMEs manufacture consumer products which are sold through retail chains and online marketplaces. One of the essential requirements for SME manufacturers/brand owners to sell their products through retail chains and e-marketplaces is to label them with unique product codes, also known as GTINs (EAN/UPC). Whether you are introducing your product in the market or taking your company to the next level, GTINs (EAN/UPC) provide a unique identity to your products that helps you in listing products with buyers and achieving supply chain visibility and efficiency.  Why should you label your products with GTINs(EAN/UPC)?  Over 2 million brand owners use GTINs across the globe, making it a de-facto standard for the retail industry worldwide.  Some of the benefits of GTINs (EAN/UPC) for your business are listed below. 1.  Higher search ranking of your products o
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Use of Barcode Number While Selling Online

  No matter what the size of your business is or what product line you have, there are enough online marketplaces to give you avenues to host your products. Whether you are a home-grown brand or manufacturing unit, having your products listed on websites like Amazon, Flipkart, Big Basket, etc., enhances your chances of sales. But selling on these portals is easier said than done. To list your products on popular e-marketplaces, you need to accurately identify your products with unique product codes. Why is it a requisite? E-marketplaces need a unique identity on products to list them in their system. It is simply because in the absence of unique product identity, the chances of wrong invoicing, delivery, returns, etc., will increase manifolds. To ensure that you are invoiced for the product that is selected, and then the right product is delivered at your doorstep, unique product codes ( GTIN - UPC/EAN) play a critical role. These numbers form an important bridge between online listing
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Increase Online Product Visibility With Unique Barcode Numbers

  In this digital age, where the world is literally at our fingertips, it has become immensely easy to find and purchase things we need across the globe in just a few clicks. The World Wide Web has provided an opportunity to manufacturing companies, of all sizes, to connect with consumers like never before. One of the challenges brands face whilst using this opportunity and listing their products at e-marketplaces is low visibility. Since most of the consumers search the product category to find the products, listings with low search ranking never appear. With a humongous number of brands under every category, listed online, there is always a need to cut through the clutter. The question here is, how to do that. Of course, there is no one formula to do it but various small steps help. For example —  Did you know, by identifying your products with unique barcode numbers (GTINs —  Global Trade Item Numbers ) and using the same in page codes, you can increase Google ranking of your produ
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Learn About the Benefits of Having GS1 Barcode Numbers On Your Product

 Having spent a lot of years visiting retail stores and outlets, we all must have witnessed a barcode on the packaging of the product that displays a specific pattern of stripes. What we also do notice is that these lines are composed of some numbers or codes which are framed to be scanned by optical readers. Since the lines correspond to a list of numbers, it gets easy to look up any product with a barcode simply by matching those numbers to an entry which is made in a database at the check-out of a retail store. It is interesting to note here that barcodes also play a key role in supply chains, enabling parties like retailers, manufacturers, transport providers, etc., to automatically identify and track products as they move from manufacturing units to the consumer, and hence enable product recalls, detect counterfeits, etc.. What is a genuine barcode number? As we understand the many benefits of barcode numbers, it is important to know that not all barcode numbers can provide these
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Learn To Increase The Reach Of Your Product Online

 Digital domination across the world has led people to rely on the Internet for searching and buying for products and services that they need. Any online business which fails to ride this digital wave effectively risks missing new lucrative sales opportunities. A strong online presence enables your prospective consumers to search for your products/ service, from everywhere and at any time of the day. If you are running a retail business, your online shop will be open 24X7, enabling consumers to make purchases whenever they need to. This is the primary reason behind brand owners, like you, are selling their products online. But to effectively sell products online , you need to increase the reach of their product pages and generate more traffic on pages to enable sales. Fortunately, there are numbers of effective ways through which you can increase the reach of your product online. In this blog post, we’ve listed down some easy to use ways to increase web traffic to your product pages. T
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How To Sell Products With Retail Chains

 Breaking into the major retail chains to sell products and grow business is something many product manufacturers aspire for. Bringing products into the retail sector through modern trade retailers can be a fantastic strategy for business growth. It helps to boost product revenue, build brand awareness and improve the kind of network connections you need to successfully grow a wholesale distribution business. It also does wonders for the health of your business as a whole. However, it is also very difficult to introduce new products in retail shops, as retail chains have limited space to fit new products in their retail stores. But with some basic principles, you can pave your way into getting your products into your targeted retail store, which help you reach out to the right audience and enhance your business. We have carved out some basic steps on how you can easily and strategically connect with big retail chains to sell your products Let’s Start… Step 1  — The first step is to dec
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