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Retail

Reduce costs, increase profits, improve supply chain efficiency and consumer loyalty with our standards

GS1’s global standards enable the retail sector to improve consumer loyalty and supply chain efficiencies.  The GS1 System is the most widely used set of supply chain standards in the world and is used by your industry. We have:

  • identified that the lack of use of GS1 master data standards is currently costing UK grocery over £1 billion per annum
  • saved the retail grocery industry £650 million annually by using EDI for electronic ordering and invoicing

Using our standards helps you to quickly and efficiently identify, capture and share product information with your suppliers around the world. Manufacturers, distributors, and retailers that want to optimise their supply chain operations look at using our standards to improve business processes and meet the needs of savvy shoppers in an ever-changing marketplace.

Our solutions enable you to:

Asset Tracking
Know where your asset last was and who had it and therefore reduce unnecessary replacement purchases		 Find out more about Asset Tracking
Automated Goods Receipt
Improve the speed and accuracy and reduce time spent on disputes with your suppliers through the use of EDI		 Find out more about Automated Goods Receipt
EAS RFID
Improve product availability/replenishment,  inventory control,  deter theft  and counterfeiting		 Find out more about EAS RFID
Food and Product safety
Use GS1 standards to enable you to trace all the way back from the scanned item at the checkout back to batch and farm it came from 		Find out more about Food and Product Safety
Master Data Management
Retailers will benefit from more accurate, consistent and up-to-date product information which will help you strengthen your relationship with customers by helping make for informed buying decisions, allergen information or special dietary requirements 		Find out more about Master Data Management
Order to Cash
Make ordering, delivering and paying for goods faster, more accurate and cheaper		 Find out more about Order to Cash
Point of Sale Scanning
Reduce fresh food wastage with a new industry standard bar code		 Find out more about Point of Sale Scanning
Sustainability
Become greener by being more efficient		 Find out more about Sustainability
Upstream Integration
Allow your community of sellers to benefit from using GS1 standards		 Find out more about Upstream Integration

We helped the industry rollout the first global retail bar code numbering system – a system which benefits customers by making POS faster and improving stock control and on-shelf availability. Our standards are used by retailers large and small including:

Contact us to:

  • Find out more about our retail sector solutions and how they can benefit your retail business

T: 020 7092 3500
E: info@gs1uk.org