Our Successes
GS1 Canada has made a significant positive impact on Canadian organizations through such accomplishments as:

• Enhancing industry productivity by creating ECCnet Registry, Canada’s national product registry, to connect trading partners with a single source of timely, accurate product data for product listing and data synchronization.
• “Turning off the paper” in the product listing process and streamlining how industry shares community, private and proprietary product data with Item Centre, a community-based, industry web portal.
• Working with key associations to achieve industry’s commitment to 100% data accuracy in ECCnet Registry.
• Reducing marketing costs for professional product images, dimensional data for planograms and bar code scan tests through ECCnet Image & Validation (ECCnet I&V).
• Helping industry meet government tax allocation and nutritional labeling requirements through ECCnet Registry and ECCnet I&V.
• Accelerating and standardizing how industry communicates product recalls across the supply chain through a Product Recall initiative.
• Spearheading the Canadian Healthcare Supply Chain Standards Project with Carenet to deliver healthcare-specific supply chain standards that will enhance patient safety and supply chain efficiency.
• Enabling a secure, paperless electronic supply chain for hospital pharmacies to order controlled substances through the GS1 Canada Certificate of Authority Service
• Collaborating with industry to develop numerous electronic data interchange (EDI) standards for multiple sectors to eliminate manual processes associated with product ordering and management
• Supporting product traceability to enhance consumer safety by forming Can-Trace, an unprecedented collaboration among national food and government organizations.
• Gathering global Electronic Product Code™/Radio Frequency Identification (EPC/RFID) leaders at annual events to help Canadian organizations adopt this innovative technology to enhance inventory management, asset management and traceability.