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We have compiled the most popular retail grocery industry guidelines and best practices to help you easily find the resources you need to implement GS1 Standards.

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Traceability

  • Food Industry Guidance for Streamlining Your Logistics Labels
  • Fresh Foods Management Solution webpage
  • North American Industry Implementation Guidance for Standard Case Code Labeling
  • Implementation Resources and Guidelines on the Produce Traceability Initiative
  • GS1 National Data Quality Playbook PDF

Data Sync and Sharing

  • GS1 US Product Image Sharing Guidance for Retail Grocery and Foodservice
  • GS1 US Guidance for Sharing Product Attributes via GDSN in Retail Grocery PDF
  • GS1 US Trade Item Identification and Communication Guidelines for Electronic Data Interchange PDF
  • Case Study: Ecolab Takes a Clean Approach to Spotless Product Data

Data Quality Resources

  • GS1 National Data Quality Playbook PDF (241 KB)
  • Inaccurate Package Measurements: A Common, but Preventable Root Cause of Data Quality Problems PDF
Visit our Data Quality page and take action to improve your data quality

Make the Case for Standards

  • Georgia-Pacific — Centralizing data governance maintains data quality
  • Bush Brothers & Company - Bean Counting is Easier with Quality Data
  • Beaver Street Fisheries - Taking a deep dive into solid data governance PDF (1029 KB)
  • GS1 Standards in Action for Fresh Foods
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