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GS1 Standards & Benefits of Bar Codes
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1st FEBRUARY, 2007 KOFI ESSUMAN
The Global Language of Business
Coding and Labelling are aspects of product quality often ignored but adversely affect acceptability especially in overseas markets. The EU Directive 2001/95/CE concerning General Product Safety, and EU regulation 178/2002 concerning General Food Law, became effective two years ago.
The European Coding and Labelling Convention for consumer units, traded units and distribution is covered under these laws and are applicable to every company in every member state. Among other things the Convention requires that all bar codes used within Europe must meet the requirements of the GS1 system.
Packaging and labelling continue to hinder the growth of the export sector in Ghana. Bar codes are virtually unknown within the manufacturing sector in Ghana. With the coming into force of EU mandatory standards on traceability, the demand for barcodes to meet required international coding standards will soon increase.
It is therefore heartwarming that the Ministry of Trade, Industry, PSD & PSI’s under the Trade Sector Support Programme, is supporting the use of bar codes in Ghana.
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What is a Bar Code
Many Ghanaians are familiar with the pattern of bars and spaces on packages and labels but hardly know its importance. These wide and narrow bars and spaces known as bar codes hold a unique identification number called GTIN or Global Trade Item Number. Automatically capturing data through bar codes is used to speed data collection and minimize errors caused by manually keying in the data.
GTINs are encoded in the bar code and shown in human readable format beneath the bar code. GTINs can be decoded and read by a scanner to retrieve the information from a database.
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Bar Codes
The GS1 System uses EAN/UPC barcodes, ITF-14 and GS1-128 (formerly UCC/EAN-128) bar codes. A GTIN is a number identifying any item traded in the global supply chain that will be priced, ordered or invoiced. The GTIN contains no information. It is simply used as a key to information held in a database. Each separate product line and packaging level must be assigned a different number or GTIN. The EAN-13 and UPC bar codes are the most widely used because they can be scanned at any point in the supply chain. The EAN/UPC bar codes are the only bar codes accepted at the retail point-of-sale.
GTIN is a new term introduced to ensure consistent terminology around the world. GTINs ensure that trade items are identified uniquely around the world, which enables more efficient global trading
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GS1 International
GS1
is a not-for-profit organisation that develops global standards for the identification of goods and services. GS1's standards foster
cooperation
and encourage
information-sharing
worldwide.
Thanks to GS1, businesses and organisations can improve the
efficiency
of their supply and demand chains by adding useful information to any exchange of goods or services.
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GS1: A Broad Portfolio
GS1 provides a wide variety of
services
to its user companies.
• • • • • • • • • Implementation support Guides and manuals Training and education Helpdesk Benchmarking Verification tools and calculators Consulting services Software And more…
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GS1 Membership
8 • • • • • GS1 is a fully integrated global organisation. It was formed in early
2005
from the joining of EAN International and the Uniform Code Council (UCC).
30
years of experience
104
member organisations representing
all points
chain in the supply Over a
million
companies doing business across
145
countries Over
20
represented sectors (FMCG, healthcare, transport, defence…) Over
5 billion
transactions a day
GS1 is the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world.
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GS1 – Membership in 2005
9 GS1/EAN International member companies GS1/UCC member companies Numbers allocated by EAN International/UCC
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GS1 – Membership in 2006
Countries with a GS1 Member Organisation Countries served on a direct basis from GS1 Global Office (Brussels) 10
104 Member Organisations.
145 Countries served.
Local services, global reach.
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MEMBERSHIP IN SOME COUNTRIES
USA/CANADA 251,567 U.K 20,000 GERMANY 106,000 FRANCE 30,000 ITALY 31,000 SPAIN 20,000 SOUTH AFRICA 8000 KENYA 1500 JAPAN 115,000 CHINA 47,385 AUSTRALIA 13,460 SOUTH KOREA 13,000 TAIWAN 10,000 GHANA 35
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ABOUT
Ghana
One of the 104 Member countries of GS1 International mandated to issue GTINs and support its application in Ghana.
Established with the support of the Institute of Packaging, Ghana, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ghana Standards Board, Unilever Ghana, and other manufacturing companies and Supermarkets in Ghana.
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- Ghana Country Prefix
6034000004
- Company Prefix (for Burger Food Industries Ltd)
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- Item Number
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Check Digit
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Bar Codes: A pillar of the GS1 System
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GS1 APPLICATIONS
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Trade items:
Products and services upon which there is a need to retrieve predefined information at any point in the supply chain (Global Trade Item Number/
GTIN
).
Logistic units:
Physical units established for transport and storage of goods of any kind that need to be tracked and traced individually in a supply chain (Serial Shipping Container Code/
SSCC
).
Assets:
Fixed or returnable assets (Global Individual Asset Identifier/
GIAI
and Global Returnable Asset Identifier/
GRAI
).
Locations:
Physical locations, functional entities, or legal entities requiring a permanent identification, such as a company, department, or warehouse (Global Location Number/
GLN
).
Service Relations:
Public or private service provider to track any entity’s service requirements and needs over a continuing relationship (Global Service Relation Number/
GSRN
).
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The GS1 Bar Codes
Global standards for automatic identification Rapid and accurate item, asset or location identification
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EAN/UPC 13
– GTIN only (main
usage Retail Items)
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ITF-14
– GTIN only (main
usage Outer Cases)
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GS1 Bar Codes
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Global standards for automatic identification Rapid and accurate item, asset or location identification GS1-128
– GTIN and all GS1 Application Identifiers ( 01) 04601234567893 16
Data Matrix
– GTIN and all GS1 Application Identifiers
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BENEFITS OF GTIN - GLOBAL TRADE ITEM NUMBER
Facilitates the global flow of trade items (products and services) and associated information along the supply chain.
Uniquely identifies trade items at all levels of packaging (item, case, and pallet) and therefore facilitates tracking and tracing of logistics units.
Allows accurate machine read (scanning) identification of trade items when encoded in bar codes and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags of the EPCglobal Network™.
Delivers trade item data in a consistent format and structure.
Simplifies supply chain management.
Employs the globally accepted and utilized EAN.UCC System whose language is understood by the global marketplace.
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Why Bar Codes?
• GS1 Bar Codes change lives for the better
• Providing everyday benefits to retail consumers • • • Contribute to improved patient safety Help deliver logistics efficiently Enable traceability & authentication systems
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Benefits
19 Create Supply Chain Visibility
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BarCodes and Patient Safety
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BarCodes and Traceability
Tracking and Traceability are made possible using GTIN-128 and Application
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( 02) 0931234578907( 20) 01( 15) 020300( 37) 48( 10) 1171123423 To ensure full batch traceability: •
Upstream:
incoming materials are identified through a GTIN and batch codes, on pallets •
Manufacturing:
during Production Consumption and generating Batch codes during Production Declaration Process Orders ensure traceability by recording Batch codes •
Downstream
(distribution/sales): traceability to customers is ensured through recording the GTIN and batch codes in deliveries, on pallets with a unique identifier (SSCC)
In order to ensure full batch traceability the batch codes must be managed throughout the extended Supply Chain
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SSCC GTIN Quantity Batch Expiry Date 22
Pallet Label For Traceability
SSCC
376 10100 91256 87633
Milo 12x400g
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GEPIR & Traceability
Where the manufacturer’s name and address is not indicated on a product, tracing
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(GEPIR). The service is provided jointly by different GS1 Member Organisations. GEPIR is a database that contains basic information on over 1,000,000 companies in over 100 countries. It is an International Catalogue of GS1 numbers including Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs) and Global Location Numbers (GLNs). Visitors can search for a GTIN that has been issued by any of the participating countries. For more information see http://www.gepir.org.
GEPIR CAN THEREFORE BE USED AS A TOOL TO TRACE THE ORIGIN OF A PRODUCT
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CONCLUSION
In today’s competitive global marketplace, speed and efficiency are critical to success and survival. Managing the physical flow of product with the electronic flow of business data is a major challenge in today’s intensely competitive environment.
Manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, logistical providers, warehouse operators and retailers need to view their market place from a large or macro view point and NOT simply from their own local perspective. It is no more comparative advantage but competitive advantage.
The time, attention, and detail that go into designing and producing a quality product must also be evident in the transmission of that product’s business data through the supply chain. A system built with standardized processes and a common business language is needed to monitor and manage the movement of product and information through every component along the supply chain.
This is what GS1 seeks to achieve using GTINs. It is my fervent hope that this seminar would go a long way to bring positive changes in your business as well as understanding usage of barcodes better.
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Contact Details
Ebenezer Mante Technical Executive. GS1 Ghana 233 20 819 6867 233 28 910 5137 [email protected]
Address R4 AGI Building, Addison House, Trade Fair, La, Accra P O Box 2234, Tema, Ghana
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