Year in Review - 2010 - GS1 Australia

• GS1 Australia also has worked closely with healthcare
stakeholders including health jurisdictions,
manufacturers, Medicines Australia, the Therapeutic
Goods Administration (TGA), NEHTA and the
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
(ACCC) in gathering the requirements to extend the
GS1 Recallnet service to the healthcare sector.
• In 2010 GS1 Australia also collaborated with Victoria
University on a Smartphone application that scans
products’ bar codes and delivers nutritional information
to individual consumers.
• GS1 Australia furthered this work with Deakin
University and Nestlé Australia successfully piloting a
proof-of-concept iPhone application, called GoScan,
that scans products’ bar codes and delivers allergen
information to the consumer. The GoScan application
sources product data from a database linked to GS1net
which is sourced from the Nestlé Nutribank database.
• Working with Nestlé Australia, GS1 Australia expanded
the iPhone application (GS1 GoScan) to other types of
information, such as country of origin, nutritional data,
general product details and sustainability information.
• The GS1 GoScan application was piloted by Anaphylaxis
Australia and discussions are under way with the
Coeliac Society.
• This GoScan application is also the basis for work being
undertaken by the GS1/AFGC Extended Labelling work
group. This group, comprising the AFGC, manufacturers
and retailers, is collaborating to develop an industry-endorsed
version of GS1 GoScan to deliver trusted and approved
product compositional information to consumers. The
goal is to launch the application to the market in 2011.
• GS1 Australia participated in the GS1 MobileCom Day
in June 2010, which was one of 35 GS1 initiatives
presented from around the world.
• GS1 Australia and the AFGC started a joint program to
develop the next generation of the Product Information
Form (PIF). This program will see the launch of a web
version of the application together with XML standards
that will become the industry standard for product
information in the upstream sector.
• GS1 Australia became a full Associate Member of the
AFGC and a member of the Consumer Goods Forum.
• Based on the highly successful GS1 UK Grocery Data
Crunch (Data Quality) Report, GS1 Australia initiated
a similar project for both the grocery and hardware
sectors locally. Data analysis was completed this year
and a final report will be published in early 2011.
• This year GS1 Australia participated in an Efficient
Consumer Response Australasia (ECRA) working group
to investigate logistics labelling and related issues in
the retail sector. GS1 Australia worked closely with the
major grocery retailers to help suppliers improve their
pallet labelling using the GS1 standards and has worked
with industry to develop an ECRA industry toolkit. This
includes a state-of-the-art video tutorial on pallet label
location. GS1 Australia launched a logistics-labelling
assessment service to help members improve their
pallet-labelling processes.
• A total of more than 500 people attended GS1
Australia’s Supply Chain Week sessions in March
and September held in Sydney, Melbourne and
Brisbane. Speakers included representatives from
the hardware, rural, automotive, healthcare,
consumer electronics, grocery and liquor sectors.
Pallet labelling was a major focus of the sessions.
• The Electronic Meat Transfer Certificate (EMTC) for the
Australian red meat industry has been upgraded to
current GS1 eMessaging standards and made available
for industry use. This has the potential to introduce
savings of more $1 million to the industry.
• The consumer electronics sector has worked with
GS1 Australia to be ready for a data synchronisation
pilot using GS1net in the first quarter of 2011. The
Consumer Electronics Working Action Group (CEWAG)
has completed a GDSN-compliant data model to make
this possible.
• In 2010 the Office Supplies GS1 Action Group (OSGAG)
issued a call to action to all suppliers in the sector to
engage with GS1net. This followed a successful data
synchronisation pilot via GS1net by suppliers Australian
Office, Pelikan Artline, ACCO Australia and Dalton
Office and Officeworks.
• The Australian Defence Force (ADF) signed GS1 Australia’s
proposal to evaluate the ADF’s use of GS1net to
synchronise information with suppliers commencing
with their healthcare supply chain. The ADF is also
working with GS1 Australia to implement GS1 item
identification standards.
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