In 2010 the industry conducted a study examining non-compliance of pallet labelling and identified a 44% rate of failure. A similar survey was completed in late 2014 resulting in a 24% improvement across the industry. Whilst efforts to drive compliance should be applauded the industry still faces a 20% error rate!!
To assist the industry address this issue ECRA, GS1 Australia and GS1 New Zealand have partnered with industry experts to re-fresh the toolkit, providing valuable, practical and clear information on how to get the best out of pallet labels. After all printing and applying a good quality barcode label that complies with industry standards and which is scanable by all trading partners cost no more than printing and applying a barcode that doesn’t scan.