GS1 Global Traceability Standard
The standard defines a business-process framework for parties to identify traceable objects and locations, capture key data, share information, and support traceability across supply chains.
What the authority record establishes
The standard defines a business-process framework for parties to identify traceable objects and locations, capture key data, share information, and support traceability across supply chains.
Voluntary standard
The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.
Why it matters to this market
It offers a shared process model for traceability while leaving sector rules, system design, data governance, partner obligations, and legal applicability to the implementing organizations.
Affected operating stages
- Plan And Organize
- Align Master Data
- Record Traceability Data
- Request And Share
- Use Information
- Review Performance
Capabilities to examine
Supplier Facility And Trading-Partner Master Data
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for supplier facility and trading-partner master data.
Item Product Location And Party Identification
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for item product location and party identification.
Traceability Lot Code And Lot Genealogy
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for traceability lot code and lot genealogy.
Receiving Shipping And Distribution Event Capture
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for receiving shipping and distribution event capture.
GS1 Identifiers EPCIS And Standards Interoperability
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for GS1 identifiers EPCIS and standards interoperability.
Affected buyer audiences
- traceability program owners
- supply-chain data teams
- retailers manufacturers and logistics providers
- technology providers
Implementation questions
- Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
- What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
- Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
- Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
- How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?
Interpretation boundary
The publication does not certify conformance or infer legal compliance from use of GS1 identifiers or processes.