GS1 Uganda is a not-for-profit organization that locally administers the global multi-industry system of identification and communication for products, services, assets, and locations. We are a member organization of GS1 Global which develops, maintains, and offers global standards for efficient product and information flow. GS1 is represented in 114 countries and over 1 million companies use GS1's standards.

GS1 Uganda was created to help Ugandan business enterprises become more efficient; our fundamental role is to allocate barcodes, maintaining internationally accepted trading standards. This, in turn, allows Ugandan organizations to adopt the world's best-practice supply chain management techniques.