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2024 was a year of growing cooperation and importance of standards for GS1 Finland. The changing operating environment, especially the increasing requirements of EU legislation, laid the foundation for the strengthening of our role and the expansion of our operations. The development of our services...
What does the future of barcodes look like? Can a single code be used to serve both the retail value chain and consumers in the future? Discover the possibilities of the new, smarter GS1 2D code.
Our partners implement tested and certified solutions to support the use of GS1 standards and services. Through the partner network, we are able to expand our expertise and offer more value to our customers.
The GS1 Synkka product information service will be updated to a new version on May 24, 2025. This page provides detailed information about the upcoming 3.1.31 version update for customers utilising the service integration.
We are renewing our product information management services to better meet the needs of our customers now and in the future. The new service will be launched in Spring 2026.
In the Data model of raw material master data development project, we define a structured way to describe and share key information about raw materials throughout the food chain. The project, carried out together with the food industry and retail trade, is part of the Interoperable traceability...
On this page you will find instructions for using the product information service and media bank, as well as different solutions for sharing product information. We have divided the instructions for information savers, information recipients, integration users and product media maintainers.
The GS1 Synkka product information service will be updated to a new version on August 23, 2025. This page provides detailed information about the upcoming 3.1.32 version update for customers utilising the service integration.
GS1 Finland executed a development project together with the Finnish food industry and grocery trade operators, which aimed at a practical level to solve the new information requirements set for the food chain by the EU's deforestation regulation.
Together with food industry and retail trade companies, GS1 prepared a proposal how the GS1 2D code could be used when communicating products to consumers and thus facilitate consumers' access to product information.
GS1 Finland collaborated with industry leaders on a development project to create a roadmap for implementing interoperable traceability solutions across Finland's food chain.
All GS1 identifiers and barcodes are generated using the GS1 Company Prefix.
When you get your products into the store or wholesaler's assortment, you need to inform your trading partner of all the necessary information. GS1 Synkka makes it efficient and easy to share product information, images and documents.
Before you can deliver – or sometimes even offer – your product to retailers and wholesalers, you need a GS1 product identifier for your product and a barcode on its packaging.
You must notify your trading partner of all deliveries of your products in the manner agreed upon with them. Many stores and wholesalers use electronic EDI messages to receive products and maintain product balances.
With our standards and services, you can ensure that your products and deliveries are reliably identified, your product information is up-to-date and your deliveries are correctly labelled.
Find out how our identification, capturing and sharing standards and the common operating models based on them can, among other things, improve business processes, smooth the information flow in the supply chain and improve the customer experience.
GS1 develops and provides global supply chain data standards that help companies identify, capture and share information.
Supplies, trade, logistics and medicine and patient safety. Solutions innovated by GS1 bring efficiency and fluency to several industries.
Our parallel project to the Animal Welfare Verification System coordinated by Luke is investigating how animal welfare information could be incorporated into product information and shared transparently throughout the food chain – from primary production to the consumer.
Carbon footprint data allows both consumers and trading partners to obtain information about the environmental impacts of products in a transparent, traceable and comparable way. Carbon footprint information plays a significant role in sustainability reporting.
We are developing a new service in collaboration with food companies that will enable the joint collection of data from cattle farms as required by the EU Deforestation Regulation. The solution will promote transparency and traceability in accordance with the regulation and enable the necessary...
In the next few years, a digital product passport will be required for almost all products placed on the EU market. There is therefore a significant reform upcoming for the product information offered to consumers, and for this reform the GS1 standards provide ready-made keys.