Britain’s supermarkets have been accused of “profiteering” at the expense of their suppliers by imposing inflated charges for product recalls and other faults, including for barcode labels on cases of product that don’t comply with their system specifications.
Greencore Prepared Meals’s Kiveton site has reduced the risk of coding and packaging errors thanks to the expertise of systems integrator AutoCoding Systems.
Simplifying and speeding up product recalls would be the next logical step along the road of GS1 UK’s mission to refine data quality, according to chief executive Gary Lynch.
