Year in Review - 2010 - GS1 Australia

ANTHONY FENELEY
DIRECTOR SOURCING
ASIA, GENERAL MANAGER
LOGISTICS AND
SOURCING SCA
HYGIENE AUSTRALASIA
“
The SCA supply chain has been bar code enabled for more
than a decade and, while it feels like yesterday’s technology,
there is no doubt that for a high-volume manufacturer there is
no other way to efficiently manage our business. We move
approximately 35 million cases of product through our supply
chain each year. The electronic enablement in our business
is inherent from our packaging design and new product
origination right through our manufacturing processes, the
bar coding of our shipper or trade packs, the material flow
of our products from our manufacturing machines through
to our palletising. From our major factory in Australasia our
product is automatically scanned onto vehicles with an
automatic truck-loading process and read up into our
systems. The reverse happens when the product reaches
our major distribution centre.
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“While electronic enablement through bar coding and
pallet labelling has been a feature of our physical supply
chain for a decade, more recently we have embraced
electronic enablement with our customer base through
data synchronisation. We have more than 600 active SKUs
on GS1net with data on product dimensions, pricing and
availability. This elimination of manual processes has resulted in
a 95 per cent reduction in errors which means orders are fulfilled
without error and on time and there is a flow of benefits to accounts
receivable, including improved management of debtors. When we get our
data right there is a halo effect for all our customers and a flow-on benefit
upstream in our supply chain through improved data accuracy.
”