About an hour and a half's drive from Copenhagen, in an industrial district in the small town of Åstorp, the cries of seagulls mingle with the sound of powerful engines as the many trucks in front of the 64,000 sqm Frode Laursen warehouse, with ton-heavy trailers, zigzag between each other like ants in an anthill.
If food waste were a country, only China and the US would emit more CO2. In Norway, supermarket chain Meny has saved 18 percent of food waste costs on fresh meat by using smart barcodes.
When Lasse Skjønning Andersen opened a small porridge restaurant at street level just over 10 years ago, he never imagined what a resounding success he was launching. Today, he has created a new vision of what porridge can be and has opened several restaurants. Now he's heading into retail with big visions, but also a need for help.
In recent years, the global fight against counterfeit medicines has intensified. Barcodes play a key role in this. In Scandinavia, we generally have good control over the security of medicinal products, but globally, fraud is too often seen in the handling of life-saving medicines. People in central Asia and Africa do not have the same level of drug safety as we have in Denmark. That is why something needs to be done. See how the GS1 systems play a key part in ensuring your safety.
Occasionally, we hear of infected food products that inadvertently send consumers to the toilet for days - or worse, lead to hospitalisation. The National Serum Institute is working to find the most effective way to use GS1's systems to contain foods that are not good for us.
Barcodes on all instruments will in future optimise the daily routine of staff and not least patient safety in the Danish healthcare system. Come on a tour behind the doors of the new Gødstrup Regional Hospital, where the future is already underway. Here, technology and staff work together to sterilise instruments for operations.
A bioanalyst in the biochemistry department at Aalborg University Hospital got so tired of his job one night that he decided to revolutionise it. Eight years later, hands have been replaced by robotic arms - a new invention that saves man-hours, increases job satisfaction and improves working conditions.
The New Loop is on a roll. A vision of a new deposit system for takeaway packaging has generated so much attention that it's almost hard to keep up. The future will bring coffee cups, pizza boxes and all sorts of other takeaway packaging ready to be recycled. And barcodes will be essential on that journey.
In a busy world, barcode scanning helps healthcare professionals to comply with the five patient rights: right patient, right medicine, right dose, right time and right route. The barcodes on medicines are a verifying safety net in the everyday life of healthcare professionals when it comes to helping patients in the best possible way.
Over the past five years, Danish skincare company Australian Bodycare has grown by more than 50% per year. This success is largely due to a digital initiative that has today secured export breakthroughs in several markets.
RFID became the saving grace for the School of Clinical Assistants and Dental Nurses as a reduction in funding meant less time spent on sterilisation, checking instruments and budget monitoring.
At Peter Larsen Kaffe, a solid foundation equals tight inventory control, and about 6 years ago they introduced barcodes everywhere at the warehouse in Viborg.
In the textile industry, the tentative steps are taken towards increased digitization in the form of RFID marking, and at the Danish clothing brand Samsøe Samsøe, the implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) throughout the business has clearly lead to savings in the long run.
Region Nordjylland has three hospitals with approximately 1,800 beds and more than 8,700 employees. The hospitals' operating departments used to use manual processes for replenishing items, which made them time-consuming with an increased risk of human error.
Despite the focus on food waste in Denmark in recent years, food waste for an average Danish family has remained unchanged. And the 2D barcode in combination with smart refrigerator solutions can change that.
CEO of GS1 Denmark, Lars Kyed has no doubt what will change and revolutionise GS1 Denmark in the future. Data, data and more data.
It doesn't have to be difficult to push your products into the digital marketplaces, but it's the alpha and omega that you focus on proper labeling of your products and ultimately the user experience.
When the covid-19 vaccines became available, the Irish health authorities focused on ensuring that the roll-out was a safe, efficient and traceable process - from receipt of the vaccines to the actual vaccination.
In Region Syddanmark, medical equipment used to be handled manually, with the risk of missing or obsolete products.Now the region has moved to an electronic inventory management system, using existing barcodes on the products.
