GS1 Sweden
Encyclopedia
GS1 Sweden is part of GS1
international (earlier EAN international). GS1 international is a world wide organisation that works with standards related to distribution.
The foundation for the GS1-system is the unique series of digits, identifying products, places and goods. These areas can be concluded in The global language of business.
To help reading the series of digits, different types of information carriers are used like barcodes, RFID-tags, data matrices etc.
As a member of GS1 international, GS1 Sweden is representing GS1 in Sweden and also listening to the voice of Swedish companies to develop the GS1 standards. GS1 Sweden has today 9000 customers. GS1 Sweden is also responsible to give EAN codes
to Swedish companies.
http://www.ean-search.org/
http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=European_Article_Number
http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GS1_Sweden
GS1
Founded in 1977, GS1 is an international not-for-profit association dedicated to the development and implementation of global standards and solutions to improve the efficiency and visibility of supply and demand chains globally and across multiple sectors...
international (earlier EAN international). GS1 international is a world wide organisation that works with standards related to distribution.
The foundation for the GS1-system is the unique series of digits, identifying products, places and goods. These areas can be concluded in The global language of business.
To help reading the series of digits, different types of information carriers are used like barcodes, RFID-tags, data matrices etc.
As a member of GS1 international, GS1 Sweden is representing GS1 in Sweden and also listening to the voice of Swedish companies to develop the GS1 standards. GS1 Sweden has today 9000 customers. GS1 Sweden is also responsible to give EAN codes
European Article Number
An EAN-13 barcode is a 13 digit barcoding standard which is a superset of the original 12-digit Universal Product Code system developed in the United States...
to Swedish companies.
Code construction
A GS1-13-code has the following structure:| XXX | The three first numbers identifies the country where the code is registered. Sweden has all numbers starting with 73, 730-739, so all products marked with a 73-code is probably coming from Sweden |
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| XXXXXX | The following X digits forms a company prefix identifying the company producing the article | |||
| XXX | The subsequent digits identifies the product. These numbers are decided by the owner of the company prefix | |||
| X | The last digit is a check-sum |
External links
http://www.gs1.se/sv/GS1-systemet/GEPIR---Nummerupplysning/http://www.ean-search.org/
Referenser
http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=European_Article_Number
http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GS1_Sweden