GS1 Australia

GS1 Australia is a not-for-profit organisation that locally administers the global multi-industry system of identification and communication for products, services, assets and locations - the GS1 System.GS1 Australia was created to help Australian business enterprises become more efficient; our fundamental role is to allocate GS1 numbers and barcodes, maintaining internationally accepted trading standards. This, in turn, allows Australian organisations to adopt world's best practice supply chain management techniques.

GS1 numbers and barcodes permit organisations of any size to order, track, trace, deliver and pay for goods across the supply chain, anywhere in the world.The GS1 System was developed by GS1 Global Office. It is recognised by the International Standards Organisation (ISO), the European Standardisation Committee (CEN) and the American National Standards Institute.

Today, around one million member companies in 145 countries use GS1 standards as part of their daily business communications, representing over five billion scanning transactions a day.