I'm not an expert on this, but there's standardized product identification (e.g. UPC-A, the standard barcodes are based on) and associated formats for tracking

I'm not an expert on this, but there's standardized product identification (e.g. UPC-A, the standard barcodes are based on) and associated formats for tracking that let e.g. supermarkets, logistics and vendors integrate their data (though as always standard adherence is not as clean as it could be)