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Healthcare
End-to-end product traceability enables safer, more efficient care for Lancashire.
Stock control was heavily reliant on manual processing, and orders and supplies were managed by a li...
blue coat
Healthcare
Reducing the global impact of environmentally harmful anaesthetic gases using a medical de...
95% of anaesthetic gases used in an operation are not metabolised by the patient so a significant pr...
Ethiopia: Laying foundations to fight substandard and falsified medicines
Healthcare
Using GS1 standards to trace surgical and dental instruments
Keeping track of many surgical instruments by visual inspection presented problems from a risk manag...
Union Farms: A leading pork producer achieves carbon neutrality in the name of sustainability
Retail, Fresh foods
Union Farms: A leading pork producer achieves carbon neutrality in the name of sustainabil...
Union Farms in Nebraska has addressed the challenge of measuring environmental impact in agriculture...
china
Healthcare
Innovation fuels the Johnson & Johnson GS1 Asset Management Platform
The Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies (J&J) is focused on ensuring the integrity and safety of t...
china
Healthcare
Implementing UDI on medical devices in Shenzhen – benefiting healthcare regulation and del...
There are increasing efforts to promote and implement the use of UDI for medical devices in China, b...
zhejiang food tracesbility chain case study
Retail, Consumer packaged goods (CPG)
Better food safety and supply chain efficiency in Zhejiang Province, China
In 2022, more than 7,000 food production companies already put QR Codes powered by GS1 on their prod...
IPC/Subway: Delivering the promise of end-to-end traceability throughout the Subway system
Retail, Fresh foods
IPC/Subway: Delivering the promise of end-to-end traceability throughout the Subway system
IPC needed a system to enable full supply chain visibility to optimise its operations.