Year in Review - 2010 - GS1 Australia

KATE CARNELL
CEO, AUSTRALIAN
FOOD & GROCERY
COUNCIL
“
The Australian Food & Grocery Council’s (AFGC) role is to represent
our members and work to improve the efficiency of the industry. The work
we do with GS1 Australia is fundamental to achieve whole-of-industry
efficiency. It is in our members’ best interests to have a single set of
supply chain standards to work with.
We work together to find solutions to industry issues that an
individual company cannot solve alone. For example, to establish
a single standard for the labelling of pallets we worked with
GS1 Australia and Efficient Consumer Response Australasia
(ECRA) and everyone was a winner.
We have been actively involved in the development of GS1
Recallnet as from our members’ perspective a safe and
efficient product recall system is fundamental to their
business. While the current recall system works, it doesn’t
have the levels of safeguards of a consistent, coordinated
approach. It is all about managing risk more efficiently
for the industry generally for the benefit of consumers.
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At the AFGC we are also very excited by
the extended labelling initiative as
it shows the value-add that the
AFGC and GS1 Australia can bring
to the market place. It is clearly
the game changer in delivering
information to consumers in the
supermarket. Ultimately, what we
do benefits the consumer.
”