Year in Review - 2010 - GS1 Australia

• GS1 Australia established an Asia-Pacific Standards
liaison group, led by GS1 Australia and GS1 Japan for
collaboration on the Global Standards Management
Process (GSMP). At the first meeting in November 10
countries from the Asia-Pacific region participated.
• GS1 global launched the new Global Standards
Development Process in April 2010.
• GS1 XML Messaging Standard continued to be a strong
standard for GS1 eCom with ongoing development
alongside existing EDI Messaging standards.
• This year a total of 30 students from RMIT and Deakin
universities completed the GS1 Certificate.
• GS1 Australia and the University of Melbourne were
awarded an Australian Research Council grant of
$220,000 over two years to identify and quantify
the factors influencing the adoption of supply chain
technology standards in Australia.
• GS1 Australia was actively involved in the formation of
the Alliance for Supply Chain Innovation, a consortium
of academic and research centres to benefit supply chain
and logistics research for industry and governments.
• In 2010 GS1 Australia continued to improve its
communications with members, producing more than
80 items of Marketing collateral to explain how the GS1
standards and services can be used by businesses. GS1
Australia also kept the media informed about new
services being developed using the GS1 standards resulting
in more than 150 media articles about GS1 Australia.
• GS1 Australia worked with the industry directories
Industry Search and Ferret.com to publish news and
information about GS1 Australia’s products and services
in an easily searchable online format.
• This year GS1 Australia continued to work closely with
small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs), establishing a SME
eNewsletter focused on issues and case
studies of interest to SMEs.
• GS1 Australia staff exhibited or addressed more than
70 events both overseas and in Australia.
• GS1 Australia staff volunteered their time with a range
of community organisations and charities throughout
the year. GS1 Australia continues to make available bar
code numbers and product descriptions free of charge
to the charity Visual Independence and raised funds
to donate five talking bar code scanners to blind and
vision-impaired Australians through the Visual
Independence grants program.
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