GS1 India is a supply chain standards organisation set up by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry along with CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM, BIS, APEDA, IMC, FIEO, IIP, and Spices Board India. For over 50 years, GS1 is actively working with industry stakeholders to help them achieve supply chain visibility, transparency and interoperability, across the globe. GS1 does this with the power of barcodes. Barcodes encode a GTIN (Global trade Item Number), providing a unique identity to every product. With a simple scan, detailed product information can be accessed by retailers/e-tailors, brand owners, solution providers, and consumers.
GS1 barcodes go beyond product labels – they talk.
We enable the adoption of global standards, transparently and impartially.
We bring globally recognised GS1 standards to the Indian industry, adapting them to local needs.
We uphold ethical conduct, transparent practices, and integrity in every action.
We embrace collaboration and foster inclusivity to drive innovation across industries.
GS1 standards are transforming industries by enabling seamless data exchange, improving efficiency, and enhancing supply chain visibility. Discover how we are driving growth and innovation across sectors with GS1 standards.
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The Canteen Stores Department is one of the early adopters of GS1 barcodes (EAN codes). They adopted barcodes to manage their inventory and point-of-sale billing.
GS1 India was instrumental in setting up ECR India, which initiated an era of collaborative commerce aimed at working together to serve consumers better, faster, and at reduced costs.
To increase the market reach for SMEs and help them penetrate in modern trade, Ministry of MSME introduced a financial assistance scheme for barcoding.
With the emergence of modern trade retailing, Reliance Retail, Big Bazaar, More, and Spencers Retail endorsed source marking of GS1 barcodes on products for POS scanning.
Delhi State Excise Department rolled out Excise Supply Chain Information Management System (ESCIMS) based on GS1 standards for detecting counterfeit through liquor traceability from manufacturing to the point-of-sale.
IHMCL (Indian Highways Management Company Limited) adopted GS1 asset identifiers (GIAI) in EPC/RFID tags for electronic toll collection.
GS1 India conceptualised and developed ROHINI for IIB, as a registry for unique identification of each hospital/day-care centre, to ensure faster processing of insurance claims.
We are one of the 116 member organisations of GS1, an industry-led global standards organisation, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. More than 2 million companies, spread across 25 industry sectors, including healthcare, retail, transportation & logistics, use GS1 standards to achieve process excellence and efficiency.
