Norco, an Australian milk production company, had to comply with Chinese Food Safety Regulations requirement for full traceability and protect against the counterfeiting of its milk products in China.

Norco worked with GS1 standards to have an interoperable traceability system, including with unique product identification standards and Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS).

As a result, Norco has got a complete, end-to-end, track and trace solution, which significantly decreases the risk of counterfeits affecting Norco’s brand, and provides a unique opportunity to connect directly to consumers.

V/Line, Australia's largest regional public transport operator, took a decision to transform their inventory management and supply chain processes to reduce cost and waste and to improve customer service.

With GS1 standards, V/Line can fast-track how they manage basic inventory in their main warehouse and several branch plants across the country.

V/Line see the benefits of standardised identification and marking of parts and components which has been a transformational change in the way they handle logistics and the support of maintenance and projects.

The production and quality of eggs is taken very personally at Riverview eggs, a family-run business in Ireland. Riverview eggs are committed to providing the best quality eggs at all times.

Traceability process with GS1 standards starts at a farmer, all further traceability data are added at each step and can be retrieved at the press of a button.

Sushi Factory, the leading producer of sushi in Poland, is growing rapidly and keeps looking for efficiencies in operations and quality of their products.

The implementation of solutions based on GS1 standards, in particular GTIN and the GS1 logistics label, for receiving raw materials and releasing them for production gained not only  efficiencies in processes but built grounds for future business growth.

Market and consumer demands are pressuring the food industry to provide more complete and accurate product information.

In Ireland, fish industry players created a traceability system based on GS1 standards providing best practices for weighing, labelling, data communication and sharing.

Australia sends over 250,000 tonnes of meat to the United States each year. Until recently, tens of thousands of meat cartons were being rejected and destroyed due to missing or damaged shipping labels on meat cartons.

Using GS1 barcode standards, online Meat Messaging portal has been developed that is used for the creation, sending, and receiving of required information relating to meat products.

The use of the Meat Messaging has solved an issues of meat cartons lables and has resulted in significant cost reductions for the Australian meat export.

WeMedia is an innovative company committed to providing a new online shopping experience to consumers. WeMedia also set up WEMESHOPS, an online shopping platform.

WeMedia seriously uphold the corporate motto of supplying 100% authentic products.

To achieve this, WeMedia adopted a solution based on GS1 standards, particularly on Electronic Product Code™ (EPC) that can track and trace the flow of goods along the entire supply chain.

The solution enables to gather and retrieve real-time product information that proves authenticity of products and ensures consumer confidence and trust.

Metro C&C sought a sustainable traceability system to be followed by all fresh fish and meat suppliers.

To achieve this, Metro C&C adopted a solution based on GS1 standards, one of them is the GTIN containing information about LOT number and Expiry date.

The traceability solution provides access to key product information parameters, also reduces time taken for information flow, as well as reduces errors in invoices.

A Chinese medicine wholesaler and retailer Hang Cheong Loong (H.C.L) is renowned for selling genuine products at reasonable price.

To further strengthen H.C.L.’s commitment to the safeguard of consumers’ health, H.C.L. adopted a traceability solution based on GS1 standards that offers consumers instant product authentication and traceability as well as empowers brand owners with real-time visibility.

The traceability solution not only proved that consumer health and safety is a top priority for H.C.L's but also allowed H.C.L to enter new e-marketplaces in Mainland China ensuring that products are sold by authorised retailers.

Deer velvet is an animal product and companies involved in food and food processing are becoming increasingly concerned about product safety, authenticity and integrity.

From the unique identification of an animal on farm, to delivery of cartons of deer velvet to the customer in Seoul, South Korea, the GS1 identification (GTIN, GLN, SSCC) and network (EPCIS) standards were used to identify the what, why, where and when details of the items as they move through the supply chain.

This visibility provides an efficient, accurate and robust solution for traceability, provenance and product authentication.

Food safety is always a top priority for DCH Logistics, a leading logistics service provider in China, especially when it comes to handling temperature sensitive food products.

DCH Logistics and a leading e-tailer company in China teamed up together to introduce a traceable food supply chain from farm to fork.

Having adopted Global Traceability Standards, and using an EPCIS standard-based globalised track and trace platform, and RFID-based cold chain solution, partners are now able to share traceability information which can be retrieved anytime and anywhere.

This guarantees close monitoring of product temperature and quality, connecting of various stakeholders along the supply chain, and confidence of all trading partners and consumers.

Pilot project to ship asparagus from Peru to the USA was aimed to meet products traceability, supply chain visibility and security requirements for international markets.

Using GTIN, GS1-128 standards for cases and RFID tags for pallets, pilot achieved 100% increase in visibility of asparagus supply chain that provides better control over quality of fresh products.

Pilot results also proved significant optimisations in processes, such as time of unloading pallets reduced by 50%, time pallets preparation for shipment reduced by 20%.