GS1 was founded to improve supply chain visibility and efficiency, and these goals continue to be key areas of focus. Today, however, we also empower industry’s digital transformation to ultimately benefit consumers and patients. GS1 standards and services help brands provide more transparency to consumers. They enable improvements in patient safety. They support sustainability and circular economy initiatives.

The annual report of 2021-2022 outlines the opportunities given by our work, to the industrial sector, to benefit from the power of reliable data thus adding value to the new ecosystem of the retail sector improving drastically the supply chain in healthcare by creating high quality registries with information about products and companies as well as collaborating with the industrial sector to make the global transition to 2D barcodes.