Annual Report 2005 - Singapore Manufacturing Federation
Annual Report 2005 - Singapore Manufacturing Federation
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Date: 22 September <strong>2005</strong><br />
Place: <strong>Singapore</strong><br />
Title: The New SPRING Outstanding<br />
Achievement Award in Standardisation<br />
Main Organiser: SPRING <strong>Singapore</strong><br />
Highlights of the event:<br />
Mr Tan Jin Soon, Executive Director<br />
of GS1 <strong>Singapore</strong>, was awarded the<br />
SPRING Outstanding Achievement Award<br />
in Standardisation at the World Standards<br />
Day <strong>2005</strong> Awards Ceremony on 22<br />
September. This new award is presented<br />
in recognition of outstanding contributions<br />
by industry practitioners towards the<br />
<strong>Singapore</strong> Standardisation Programme.<br />
Date: 27 - 29 September <strong>2005</strong><br />
Place: Hong Kong<br />
Title: 8 th <strong>Annual</strong> Effi cient Consumer<br />
Response (ECR) Asia Conference<br />
Main Organiser: ECR Hong Kong<br />
Highlights of the event:<br />
This conference, which highlighted the<br />
important collaboration among suppliers,<br />
retailers and logistics operators, attracted<br />
more than 800 delegates from the Asia<br />
Pacifi c region including Brazil, India,<br />
UK and USA. Presentations from<br />
<strong>Singapore</strong> came from ECR <strong>Singapore</strong><br />
which presented on the EPCglobal<br />
Implementation and Mr Tan Jin Soon of<br />
GS1 <strong>Singapore</strong> and Ms Karen Poon of<br />
Unilever <strong>Singapore</strong> Pte Ltd who jointly<br />
presented on the Trial of EPCglobal for<br />
Pallets and Cartons at Warehouse Level.<br />
Field visits covering central warehousing<br />
and fresh food distribution centres were<br />
also arranged for delegates during<br />
the conference.<br />
Date: 22 - 24 November <strong>2005</strong><br />
Place: <strong>Singapore</strong><br />
Title: GS1 Asia Pacifi c Regional<br />
Forum <strong>2005</strong><br />
Main Organiser: GS1 Head Offi ce<br />
Highlights of the event:<br />
The appointment of GS1 <strong>Singapore</strong> to<br />
host the GS1 Asia Pacifi c Regional Forum<br />
<strong>2005</strong> in <strong>Singapore</strong> at a short notice<br />
of seven weeks by GS1 Head Offi ce,<br />
following the bomb attack in Bali, was<br />
truly an honour for GS1 <strong>Singapore</strong>.<br />
This meeting, held from 22 to 24<br />
November <strong>2005</strong> at the Shangri-La’s Rasa<br />
Sentosa Resort Hotel, was attended by<br />
43 delegates from 16 GS1 Asia Pacifi c<br />
MOs. Mr Edwin Khew, Chairman of GS1<br />
<strong>Singapore</strong> and Acting President of SMa<br />
delivered the welcome address, followed<br />
by the opening address by Mr Miguel A.<br />
Lopera, CEO of GS1.<br />
During the two-day meeting, GS1<br />
<strong>Singapore</strong> Executive Director, Mr Tan<br />
Jin Soon made several presentations,<br />
including:<br />
EPCglobal Cook Book / Pilot &<br />
Implementation, EPCglobal Asian<br />
Adoption Program & EPCglobal Pilot<br />
in <strong>Singapore</strong><br />
Implementation of EAN.UCC XML<br />
Standard with product catalogue for<br />
Item Synchronization & GEPIR for<br />
Party Synchronization<br />
The Priority & Strategic Work Plan For<br />
GS1 Asia Pacifi c Region 2006<br />
Promote EPCglobal for Transportation<br />
& Logistics<br />
Among many important issues discussed<br />
during the meeting was the balloting<br />
process to nominate a member from<br />
the Asia Pacifi c region to sit in the GS1<br />
Management Board.<br />
Other Seminars<br />
Besides all the above activities, GS1<br />
<strong>Singapore</strong> also organised numerous<br />
seminars and workshops in <strong>2005</strong>.<br />
These included the RFID Connect Asia<br />
<strong>2005</strong> in February, ECR <strong>Singapore</strong> CEO<br />
Forum in August and the seminar on<br />
New Technical Reference on Cold Chain<br />
Management for Chilled Pork<br />
in September.<br />
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<strong>Singapore</strong> Manufacturers’<br />
<strong>Federation</strong><br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2005</strong>
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