Consumer Goods.
In fast-moving consumer goods the dispute is almost always a case that went somewhere it should not have. visibility.cloud will keep the chain of hands closed at the case and at the unit, so the diverted carton is a missing link on the record and not a standoff between a brand and a distributor.
Your barcode was a checkout token. The same square can be a line to your customer.
A 1D UPC talks to someone else’s POS; what comes back is panel data, weeks late, at category grain. A QR carrying a GS1 Digital Link URI resolves in your customer’s phone — and which barcode you print is your decision as GTIN owner, not your co-manufacturer’s and not Sunrise’s. Whether shoppers scan at volume is a hypothesis, and we say so. The full read is at the consumer-signal page.
Volume is the whole difficulty: millions of units, many parties, thin margins that make an unmetered capture bill the reason visibility programs quietly stop. Capture on this platform is free and stays free, so the record does not end the month the line item grows.
The unit carries its GTIN and serial, the case its SSCC, and the association between them is an event, so you can ask what was on a pallet when it crossed a dock and where a specific unit is now.
The envelope, at pack-out: cases aggregated to a pallet, with a who on the event.
{ "bizStep": "packing", "parentID": ["urn:epc:id:sscc:0614141.0000005501"], "eventTime": "2026-07-30T06:12:04Z", "recordTime": "(stamped by the gateway — the sender cannot set it)", "who": { "kind": "human", "role": "pack-out, co-manufacturer line 3", "grade": "attested" }, "capturedBy": "(co-manufacturer account — the warrantor account whose key opened the door)", "party": "(derived at read time from grant chains — never stamped)" }
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Capture workspaces for manufacturers and brands are provisioned from the seat list — we write when your seat is ready.