Latest health eating trends suggest that fruits and vegetables are more sought after by consumers because they are considered natural and in some cases organic. Therefore identification of fruits and vegetables has gained relevance.

HEB Market Chain in Mexico has implemented the GS1 Databar standard for apples and pears that allows for 100% identificaiton of products.

Tres Generaciones S.A., a growing Peruvian pisco producer, faced a lack of visibility of their supply chain.

Using GTIN and GS1-128 standards, from the reception of grapes, through distillation process and up to shipment of finished products to customers, allowed higher competitiveness of brand, access to supermarket chains and to export markets.

Vartini Packing S.A.C sought meeting customer demands of monitoring the reception of materials, the packing and dispatch of special offers.

A Traceability System was developed using GS1 GTIN13 and GS1-128/SSCC Global Standards.

Vartini Packing gained competitive advantage as a result of offering visibility to its clients. The traceability system providing real time information access, reduced cycle times and costs related to information search, which in turn lead to increased sales and higher customer confidence and loyalty.

Lenze, a leading specialist in mechanical engineering based in Germany, needed to gain visibility

of outbound shipments that were travelling from its logistics centres to customers worldwide.

Lenze decided to standardise its outbound distribution process by using global GS1 standards, specifically the GS1 Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC) encoded in the GS1-128 barcode, which is printed on a GS1 transport label.

AS a result, Lenze gets complete up-to-date information about shipments on the way to customers, but also improves its overall outbound shipping process.

OneSteel and Pandrol Australia, key players in Australia’s Heavy Industry, took a step towards revolutionising the industry.

Both companies have automated manual processes and are now able to track and trace products efficiently, saving time, money and resources. The improved efficiency ultimately leads to greater profitability, since the right goods get to the right place at the right time, and benefits to customers.

To meet growing customer demands, the Schaeffler Group needed a solution that would uniquely identify each of its individual bearings to ensure authenticity  and efficiently provide maintenance services for installed bearings around the world.

Using Serialised Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) encoded in GS1 Data Matrix, Schaeffler Group ensured full traceability of bearings.

That helped Schaeffler Group to increase customer satisfaction and achieve more efficient planning and maintainance.

According to global regulations, it is especially critical that each individual bearing be tracked and traced throughout its entire lifecycle and across all stakeholders. In addition, a comprehensive usage and maintenance history must be consistently captured for each bearing to show that actions for safety have been taken.

HFG needed to uniquely identify each bearing in a way that would be durable and last over its long lifetime.

Using Serialised Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) encoded in GS1 Data Matrix, HFG achieved unique identification and full traceability of bearings.

Identification of products is key when it comes to international shipments.

Legumex S.A., a producer and exporter of fruits and vegetables from Guatemala, had a request from US customers to have their products properly identified.

Using GS1 standards, Legumex ensured identification of all of their products, consumer and logistic items. This was a basis for a traceability system enabling more efficient recalls, inventory management and the reduction of errors in shipments.

Toll Group, an Australian transportation and logistics company, participated in a supply chain visibility project conducted by the Australian Logistics Council Supply Chain Standards Working Group and GS1 Australia.

Having implemented GS1 standards GS1-128, SSCC, EPCIS, Toll Group realised the benefits of creating visibility for operations, customers and the supply chain.

Toll Group can now get full information about the movement of goods across the supply chain and plan their operations better.

Alimentaria San Francisco, a bakery business from Argentina, realised that making high quality products is not enough in today’s world.  They observed how retailers care about consumers and noted how consumers are concerned about the food they eat. Their challenge was to meet the demand coming from consumers and retail to ensure safe products and to be more transparent with customers and consumers.

Using GS1 logistic labels with SSCC and GS1-128 barcode, Alimentaria San Francisco have implemented systems enabling automatic data capture, with high data quality and possibility of integration in the information systems of their clients, and having a more secure product recall process in case it would be needed.

New systems helped to reduce the need to enter information manually that streamlined business processes and saved costs. All the data has been now consistent and kept in a single location enabling to respond to complex data requests more easily and have a more accurate access to customers’ information and history.

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