Retail EDI
What is a GS1-128 label and why does the retailer care?
A GS1-128 label is the barcode label applied to each shipping carton, encoding an SSCC — a globally unique 18-digit serial number for that specific carton. The receiving dock scans it once and the ASN tells the system everything inside. The label is what lets a retailer receive a pallet in seconds without opening it.
The label and the ASN are one mechanism. A correct label against a carton the ASN does not describe fails the same way a missing label does, because the scan resolves to nothing.
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