Accreditation program
The Accreditation Programs key role is to help companies with large product ranges make substantial savings in administration and distribution costs.
Benefits
Two prominent benefits for organisations achieving accreditation standards include:
- Financial savings
through removal of costs associated with submitting new product samples to GS1 Australia and obtaining Barcode Verification reports - Time savings
through the reduction of verification test times, which means new products can be brought to market with fewer delays
Retailers now consider a barcode scanning failure rate of less than two percent sufficiently costly to consider introducing penalties or even reject troublesome products.
In a ruthlessly competitive economy, with products battling for retail space, manufacturers simply can't afford to be penalised or rejected.
GS1 Australia's Accreditation Program is designed to help organisations develop and implement quality standards that eliminate errors in barcode number allocation, printing and production.
GS1 Australia accredited businesses have:
- A clear policy on all aspects of the GS1 BarCode system
- Staff trained in allocating numbers and producing barcodes
- Comprehensive and documented quality assurance procedures and systems
Accreditation helps an organisation demonstrate the excellence of its identification and barcoding practices while circumventing time consuming verification reports demanded by many Australian retailers.
