Elżbieta Hałas graduated in 1986 from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology.
She has built her professional career around issues of barcodes, EAN/UCC system standards, and inventory management.
This career began with an assistant position at the Institute of Logistics and Warehousing (ILiM) in Poznań.
From 1998 to the present day, she has served as the head of the Barcode Center, a unit responsible for implementing the EAN/UCC system in Poland. She is a member of the Scientific Council of the same Institute. She participates in the work of an international group of experts on the design and implementation of food product traceability systems. She is also a co-author of supply chain restructuring projects for manufacturing and trading companies carried out by ILiM. In 1993, she participated in international workshops on logistics system design organized by the University of Trieste.
Investigating mechanisms for rationalizing inventory management processes in the machinery industry, she defended her doctoral thesis in 1988 titled “Methodology for shaping inventories in machine-building enterprises.”
In 2002, she completed postgraduate studies in economic analysis and controlling at the Poznań University of Economics and Business.
The article comes from the magazine “Logistyka” 2/2003.