Annual Report 2005 - Singapore Manufacturing Federation

Main Organiser: GS1 Singapore Council
Highlights of the event:
To improve the growth and productivity of
the retail industry, particularly the grocery
sector, GS1 Singapore successfully
organised the Collaborative Planning,
Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)
Seminar and Training Workshop for
industry practitioners.
Held at The Enterprise, the event was
jointly organised by Effi cient Consumer
Response (ECR) Singapore, GS1
Singapore, IDA, SMa and SPRING
Singapore. The two and a half days
event was conducted by an expert in
CPFR, Mr Joe Andraski, President and
CEO of Voluntary Interindustry Commerce
Standards (VICS) and Mr Wouter Crul from
Europe who is an expert in continuous
replenishment.
The participants came from a wide range
of industries and sectors including retail,
manufacturing, service, healthcare,
stationeries, food and beverage, paper,
pharmaceutical and logistics. This
successful and timely event prepared
companies to engage retail chains
planning to implement CPFR.
Date: 12 - 14 April 2005
Place: Brussels, Belgium
Title: EPCglobal Global Transport &
Logistics Summit
Main Organiser: EPCglobal Inc.
Highlights of the event:
This new Business Action Group hosted
its fi rst Summit in Brussels from 12 to 14
April 2005 and a follow-up meeting in
Singapore, at which time the decision to
set up EPCglobal Transport & Logistics
Business Action Group was fi nalised. Its
four sub-working groups are as follows:-
Integration Working Group Session
4 Walls Working Group Session
Import / Export Working Group
Session
Transportation Working Group session
Date: 16 - 20 May 2005
Place: Cape Town, South Africa
Title: GS1 General Assembly
Main Organiser: GS1 Head Offi ce
Highlights of the event:
GS1 Singapore Executive Director,
Mr Tan Jin Soon and GS1 Singapore
General Manager, Ms Rosyati Mohd Said
represented Singapore at this GS1 General
Assembly. A total of 350 delegates from
80 countries attended this meeting. The
highlights of the meeting included the
GS1 Branding Strategy; Communication
Strategies and Case Studies; GS1 Budget
and EPCglobal Budget.
Strategies on how to facilitate
communication for a global organization
such as GS1 with more than 100 member
countries and million of users, were
proposed and discussed at length.
Date: 8 June 2005
Place: Singapore
Title: EPCglobal / RFID (Radio Frequency
Identifi cation) Forum
Main Organiser: GS1 Singapore Council
Highlights of the event:
The EPCglobal / RFID Forum 2005
was successfully held on 8 June at the
Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel in
Singapore. Organised by GS1 Singapore,
Singapore Manufacturers’ Federation and
EPCglobal Singapore with a cutting-edge
theme of “EPCglobal, The New Century
Technology”, the event was well supported
by IDA, SPRING Singapore, IE Singapore,
IT Standards Committee of Singapore
(ITSC), ECR Singapore, the Association
for Automatic Identifi cation and Mobility
and Spartan System (S) Pte Ltd, and
sponsored by SATO Asia Pacifi c Pte Ltd,
Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard and
Printronix Inc.
It was also held in conjunction with the
plenary meetings of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC31
Automatic Data Identifi cation and Capture
Techniques, which ran from 9 to 10 June
to facilitate delegates’ participation at
the plenary and working group meetings
and the forum. More than 300 delegates
attended the EPCglobal / RFID Forum
2005 which saw an impressive line-up of
international speakers.
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Annual Report 2005