Year in Review - 2010 - GS1 Australia

The Year
Ahead
• GS1 Australia will be working closely with the
Australian Defence Force (ADF) to assess the
use of GS1 Identification Keys and data
synchronisation in the Defence supply chain.
• Our Industry Engagement team will explore
opportunities in the resources and utilities sector
in the areas of asset identification and tracking as
well as continuing to support active sectors to
expand their use of the GS1 System and
GS1 Australia services.
• GS1 Australia will assist suppliers in meeting new
retailer requirements for numbering and bar coding
in the hardware sector.
• GS1 Australia will be working to assist suppliers
and retailers to prepare for the 1 January 2014
introduction of GS1 DataBar.
• In the office supplies sector there will be a full
roll-out of GS1net to suppliers.
• GS1 Australia will assist Woolworths’ suppliers
with data synchronisation via GS1net from
February 2011.
• GS1 Australia will launch a new, more user-friendly
portal to access GS1net in July 2011. This initiative
is targeted at small-to-medium businesses currently
accessing GS1net via the internet or through the
Browser Template.
• GS1 Australia will conduct research into the use
of social networks and is looking to implement
a Social Media strategy in 2011.
• During 2011 GS1 Australia will conduct research into
consumers’ views of trusted product information and
what sort of data consumers would want when making
healthy lifestyle choices when purchasing supermarket
items as part of the MobileCom B2C initiative.
• 2011 will see the launch of the first industry-endorsed
iPhone based application to deliver trusted product
information to consumers in real time. GS1 GoScan
will revolutionise the way product compositional
information is accessed by consumers in Australia.
• GS1 Australia and Victoria University will undertake
the second phase of a study in assistance of the
management of chronic disease via a mobile-phoneaccessed
nutritional database.
• The Product Information Form solution will be
launched in 2011 in collaboration with the AFGC.
This new solution will deliver an industry standard
for the exchange of detail product compositional
data between raw material suppliers and food
manufacturing businesses, removing duplication
and delivering great benefits to the industry
• GS1 Recallnet – Australia’s whole-of-industry recall
and withdrawal notification management solution will
be launched to the industry in 2011. This standardsbased
notification system will streamline product recall
notifications and is endorsed by all major retailers,
leading manufactures, the AFGC and is also supported
by Food Standards Australia and New Zealand and the
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
• Work will continue with the healthcare sector in
defining recall process and data requirements and
piloting GS1 Recallnet within this sector with a launch
planned in late 2011.
• In 2011 GS1 Australia will introduce a services-only
membership for users of GS1 Recallnet and
GS1 Locatenet to assist industry adoption.
• In the year ahead GS1 Australia will offer more flexible
training to enable time-poor members to attend half-day
sessions instead of having to commit a full day to
training.
• In February 2011 GS1 Australia will launch GS1 Works,
a state-of-the-art multimedia learning platform located
with the GS1 Supply Chain Knowledge Centre.
• GS1 Australia’s Professional Services team faces a period
of exciting growth as GS1 Australia launches new
services, including data quality and traceability, and
engages with exisiting and emerging industry sectors.
• GS1 Australia will continue to work closely with
small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) to provide useful
information, tips, ideas and advice from leading SME
experts through one of Australia’s leading small
business TV shows.
• GS1 Australia will continue to actively participate at all
levels in GS1 Global initiatives, in particular visibility,
data quality and mobile commerce.
• GS1 Australia will initiate an online project looking to
offer members self-service and improved online access
to information.
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