| Understanding the GTIN - (Global Trade Item Number) |
Background |
| Please be aware of the industry-wide conversion to the "GTIN" standard by sunrise date 1st Jan 2005. This standard utilizes your existing UPC/EAN13 core database, but requires that you frontload leading zero(s) to bring the total digits to "14" from the current 12 (UPC), or 13 (EAN13). |
GTIN is an umbrella / superset term used to identify trade items.
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Overview |
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The GTIN is required in order to be compliant with global product identification standards. There are 4 forms of GTIN; each of these forms is a GTIN and all are from the same global number pool; use of any one of these forms insures that the Industry is globally compliant.
Manufacturers/suppliers currently using one of the four GTIN forms above need make no change to their current process of identifying product or their actual BAR CODE, you will however change how you store this data in your database.
Use of any one of these today makes your company GTIN compliant for global trade.
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Our Participation |
We will help retailers to re-engineer their systems to handle the transition to the new 14-digit data structures. |
