2024-06-11
Let us begin with a highly realistic scenario that regularly unfolds in international trade: a shipment of 3,000 cartons of premium soda packed in 330ml soda cans arrives at the Port of Los Angeles after weeks of turbulent ocean transit. It is finally dispatched to a major retail distribution center, such as Walmart. As the receiving clerk raises a handheld scanner toward the GS1-128 logistic label affixed to the pallet, a frustrating beep echoes through the loading dock.
