GS1 India: A Standards Organisation

Many a times it happens that you enter a showroom looking for some product and come across one that doesn’t bear the price tag. You seek the help of the staff there who immediately checks their inventory with sensors and do the needful. It’s then that you take the help of the Datkart. Datakart is the product data repository . Data cartas the name suggests is the storehouse carrying all the data on the consumer product including their features like image, content, price, size, etc. It is a barcode generator for every product under its purview. It allows the brand owners to communicate the trusted brand information to the retailers. Since the launch of Datakart in 2016, it has modernized the product data conversation between the owners, retailers and the customers. Presently, it masses information on approx. 80 lakh consumer products from approx. 14,000 companies. Benefits of Datakart This service started by GS1 helps the manufacturers to share the accurate updated SKU data in a sta...

If you are a manufacturer and want to popularise your goods orif you have just started the business and are looking for beginning a relation with your customers, the easy way out is, get a barcode for your products. Barcode for products has nowadays become a common practice used by many companies. It not only dilutes the complexity of the process but also gives an identity to your merchandise. In fact it has become essential to get your products registered for barcode to enable a smart shopping for the users. These barcodes are used across the logistics carrying the information about that product. Barcoding - Online Barcodes of numerous types are offered to cater to the needs of the different companies. Consider the example of garment industry where the barcodes are generally in form of SKU codes. These codes help in ascertaining the colour, size, brand, warranty of the merchandise, thereby speeding up the documentation and keeping the inventory in place.  It has also r...

Barcodes have revolutionised the retail landscape. This has brought speed and efficiency to retailers across the globe. Sale / checkouts at retail outlets has become faster & quicker with the use of barcode numbers. Barcodes used at the retail point of sale represent a  global trade item number  (GTIN) which acts as a key to information in the retailer’s database.  GS1, a pioneer in the field of standardization, administers the use of several kinds of barcodes   including one-dimensional (1D) barcodes which comprises of EAN/UPC, DataBar, GS1-128 and ITF 14; and two-dimensional barcodes (2D) containing DataMatrix and QR code etc. Each one of these barcodes is designed with different areas of application. One dimensional or linear barcodes are clearly visible on most of the household products. They have bars representing numbers carrying some information. Here are the different barcodes that come under this category: 1) EAN/UPC Barcodes European(or Intern...