GS1 Standards Transport Logistics

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For more than 30 years, GS1 has been dedicated to thedesign and implementation o global standards or use in thesupply chain. GS1 standards provide a ramework that allowsproducts, services, and inormation about them to move ecientlyand securely or the benet o businesses and the improvement opeoples lives, everyday, everywhere. Our standards ensure eectiveexchanges between companies, and act as basic guidelines that

acilitate interoperability and provide structure to many industries.

For many o the past three decades, GS1 was primarilyocused on retailers and manuacturers in ast-movingconsumer goods. In the last several years, however, oureorts to develop targeted solutions or other sectorshave surged.

The work we have done or Transport and Logistics, whichconnect so many supply chains and industries, is onesuch example.

We are now working on a ully integrated approachspecically or T&L companies. We know that one size

does not t all in this sector, nor can one standard or one datacarrier suit all needs.

At our Global Oce and at more than 100 GS1 MemberOrganisations around the world, we are devoted to helping yound solutions to your business concerns, with the right mix o ourglobal, neutral standards. Our integrated approach will mean wecan meet your specic requirements, with an engagement that isholistic and business-ocused rather than technology-ocused.

Your supply chains are unique: so must be the solutions deployedacross them; and solutions that leverage global standards willreduce cost, complexity and support interoperability across theindustry.

In this brochure, I am pleased to share with you a variety osuccess stories rom transportation and logistics teams whohave successully used the GS1 System o standards to ace theirchallenges and meet their objectives.

Get started on your own success story! Learn more aboutGS1 Standards in the transportation and logistics sector atwww.gs1.org/transportlogisticsand then contact the GS1 MemberOrganisation in your country (www.gs1.org/contact) to nd outhow our standards can help your business.

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President, GS1 Industry EngagementPresident, EPCglobal Inc.

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In the past, logistics were a passive, cost-absorbing unction in an enterprise. Today, logistics arehighly strategic actor, capable o providing a uniquecompetitive advantage and a variety o other benets.

Indeed, a wide range o value-added transport andwarehouse management applications and services are

now associated with the movement o goods rom thematerial supplier to the manuacturer to the end customer.

The use o state-o-the-art inormation technologies hasalso revolutionised the way logistics and transportationactivities are organised and conducted.

Furthermore, transportation and logistics serviceshave a vital role to play in making sustainabilityprogrammes possible and in helping companies meettheir energy consumption goals. In act, considerationsabout sustainability in the supply chain are playing an

increasingly important role in the selection o suppliersand the awarding o contracts. Sustainability has become abusiness issue.

And in todays truly globalised supply chain, theimportance o ecient logistics management andtransportation optimisation is becoming all the moreclear, because excellent communication and coordinationis absolutely necessary as components and goods crossmore and more borders than ever beore.

For all o these reasons, the logistics and transportationaspects o supply chain management are quicklybecoming some o the most complex business disciplines,requiring interactions within and between many o thetraditional unctional areas o a given rm and theirpartners, suppliers and customers. No longer can acompany ocus only on its own operations; long-termsuccess is becoming increasingly dependent on theactions and decisions o enterprises both upstream anddownstream.

In short, transport and logistics activities play a crucial rolein the modern supply chain.

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With GS1 Standards as the basis or their operations andservices, transportation and logistics teams can standardiseinormation and automate its collection leaving themmore time to ocus on how to use inormation ratherthan how to get inormation. Concrete benets can

include improved eciency, increased visibility o thefow o goods and shipments, more ecient handling andinventory management, increased security o distribution,aster operations, and smoother exchanges with Customsand other government agencies. With GS1s voluntary,user-designed standards, companies in the transportationand logistics sector can work more eciently, moreeconomically, more sustainably and more competitively.

Learn more about GS1 Standards in the transportation andlogistics sector at www.gs1.org/transportlogistics

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The GS1 System o standards is well known andwidely used in the Transport and Logistics sector.

GS1 ie Keys

The GS1 System o standards includes a range oGS1Identication Keys, including the GTIN, GLN, SSCC, GRAI,GIAI, GSIN and GINC:

The Global Trade Item Number (GTIN), is used touniquely identiy trade items (productsor services) that may be priced, orordered, or invoiced at any point in anysupply chain. Each trade item that isdierent rom another is allocated itsown separate GTIN. Their main unctionis to provide a way to uniquely identiyany item so it can be looked up in adatabase or example to get its price,record its sale, conrm its delivery or

identiy its order and this, at any pointduring the supply chain and rom anyplace in the world.

The Global Location Number(GLN) is the GS1 ID Key used to identiylocations and legal entities. Being ableto identiy locations with a uniquenumber is vital to many businessprocesses; GLNs are also the essentialbuilding block or a variety o EPC/

RFID applications built around location.Using a GLN rather than a proprietaryinternal numbering system or locations gives a companysignicant advantages, because it provides a standardisedway to uniquely identiy entities and locations throughoutthe supply chain.

The Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC) is theGS1 ID Key used to identiy individual logistic units. Alogistic unit can be any combination o units put togetherin a carton, in a case, on a pallet or on a truck, wherethe specic unit load needs to be managed throughthe supply chain. The SSCC enables a unit to be trackedindividually, providing benets or order and deliverytracking and automated goods-receiving.

The serial reerence component o the SSCC providesvirtually unlimited number capacity, simpliying numberallocation and guaranteeing unique identication.

The Global Returnable Asset Identier (GRAI) is usedto identiy returnable assets such as re-usable transportequipment like trays, crates, pallets or beer kegs that are

used and then returned to be used again. The GRAI can beused simply or asset identication and tracking purposes,or it can be as part o a hiring or rentalsystem where two or more companiescollaborate, as it allows enterprisesto scan assets into and out o theirbusinesses.

The Global Individual AssetIdentier (GIAI) is used to identiy xedassets o any value within a companythat need to be identied uniquely, or

the transportation purposes this caninclude a truck, a trailer, a Unit LoadDevice (ULD), a container, a rail car, andso orth.

The Global Shipment IdenticationNumber (GSIN) is a number assignedby a seller (sender) o the goods. Itprovides a globally unique number thatidenties a logical grouping o physicalunits travelling under one despatch

advice and/or one bill o lading as parto a specic seller/buyer relationship:

rom the consignor (seller) to the consignee (buyer). TheGSIN ulls the requirements o the Unique ConsignmentReerence (UCR) o the World Customs Organisation(WCO), which can be used by Customs authorities toidentiy shipments subject to import or export processes.

The Global Identication Number or Consignment(GINC) identies a logical grouping o goods (one or morephysical entities) that has been consigned to a reightorwarder or carrier and is intended to be transportedas a whole.

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The GS1 ID Keys are complemented by GS1 ApplicationIdentiers (GS1 AIs). GS1 AIs act like a code list ogeneric and simple data elds or use in multi-sectorand international supply chain applications. Each GS1 AIconsists o two or more digits and provides the denition,ormat and structure o the data eld encoded in a GS1Data Carrier. For example, a GS1 AI exists or each GS1 ID

Key, allowing them to be encoded in GS1 BarCodes orEPC/RFID tags. Supplementary data is always associatedwith a GS1 ID Key and, while the intention is that the GS1ID Key is used to nd inormation about the identiedobject in a database, GS1 AIs exist or supplementary datathat cannot be looked up in a database by reerence to theGS1 ID key.

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The GS1 System o standards also includes an entireportolio odata carriers: dierent kinds o media thatcan hold GS1 ID Keys and application identiers. The same

content can, in act, be encoded into dierent kinds ocarriers, depending on what use will be made o it. GS1Data Carriers include:

GS1 BarCodes, data carriers which enable the rapid andunambiguous encoding o GTIN, GLN, SSCC and other GS1Identication Keys and GS1 Application Identiers (AIs).Using bar codes can greatly reduce human errors in dataentry and processing.

EPC/RFID tags, which use Radio-Frequency

Identication technology to encode GS1 ID Keys inthe GS1 Electronic Product Code (EPC). The GS1Identication Key o the item (e.g. SSCC, GRAI, etc) is stored

on a tag that is attached to the item and carries dataprogrammed into a small computer chip and operates ata wide range o radio requencies. The data relating to theitem can then be used within and between organisationsand trading partners in a secure manner via the EPCglobalNetwork.

GS1 cmmu SsFinally, the GS1 System o standards also comprises a set ocommunication standards:

GS1 eCom Communication Standards, or example, usesGS1 Identication Keys such as GTIN, GLN and SSCC tounambiguously identiy the products, services and partiesinvolved in any electronic business transaction, enablingthese exchanges to be smoothly compatible, betweencompanies, and also across borders and across industries.GS1 eCom provides two complementary standards:GS1 EANCOM and GS1 XML. They both allow a direct

link between the physical fow o goods or services, andinormation related to them.

The GS1 Global Data Synchronisation Network, orGDSN, is another GS1 Communication Standard. TheGDSN is built around the GS1 Global Registry, GDSN-certied data pools, the GS1 Data Quality Frameworkand GS1 Global Product Classication, which whencombined provide a powerul environment or secure andcontinuous synchronisation o accurate data.

Hw GS1 ss e meThe Global Standards Management Process, or GSMP, isthe pre-eminent worldwide collaborative orum where allGS1 standards are built and maintained by a community oour users. In 2008, the GSMP combined with the EPCglobalJoint Action Group (JAG) to become the single standardsdevelopment orum or all o GS1 Standards, Solutionsand Guidelines. This new GSMP is the engine that powersthe entire GS1 System o Standards. It is an open andtransparent process that brings together volunteersrom all industries and rom everywhere in the world toidentiy needs or standards, gather business requirements,document best practices, obtain consensus on solutions,and then develop and implement the resulting supplychain standards.

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Unilever operates several dozen warehousesites across Europe with a number o dierent logisticspartners. In 2005, this global manuacturer o ood, homecare, and personal products identied an opportunity toimprove the way it works with these partners, throughthe standardisation o processes, the establishmento electronic messaging and the consolidation oconnectivity. DHL Supply Chain, the contract logistics arm

o DHL, was one such partner.

The two companies worked together on what they namedthe Warehouse Communication Integration (WCI) project.WCI is a business process model based on commonbusiness processes and messages and connectivitystandards. WCI wasestablished as apan-European eort,covering all Unileverproduct categoriesand ocusing on

DHL Supply Chainscore warehousemanagementactivities. Warehousemanagement isthe receipt, storageand preparation oproducts or customerdelivery on the basiso orders, as wellas the control and

disposal o damagedor obsolete stock.

The WCI standardsobjectives were toestablish a limitedset o 16 GS1 XML message-types that would be used tocover all the business requirements or warehousing orthe Unilever business units involved, as well as to createa single point o connectivity between Unilever and DHL.Unilever and DHL also aimed to standardise best practiceprocesses in the warehouses covered by the project.

Unilever and DHL jointly created strong central teamsconsisting o IT and business champions covering theUnited Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Slovakia, Hungary,

Ireland and Portugal.The WCI projectbecame an enablero the UnileverSAP Consolidationprogramme and

was also linked withDHLs EnterpriseSystems Integration(ESI) developments,ensuring that thetwo partners weretechnically very wellaligned rom the starto the project.

By the end o 2008,

WCI standards weredeployed to DHL sitesin UK, Spain, Hungary,Belgium and Slovakia,and standards willcontinue to be

deployed or new business and new warehousing sitesservicing the participating Unilever business units into2010 and beyond. Connectivity was moved towardAS2 and Internet and away rom VANs and resulted insignicant cost benets.

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WCI makes use o a wide rangeo GS1 standards, including GS1Identication Keys such as GTIN,GLN, and SSCC; GS1 BarCodestandards such as GS1-128 orlabeling; and a wide range oGS1 eCom XML messages.WCI covers all the processes

that take place within the ourwalls o a warehouse, with a set o 16 standard interacesbased on GS1 eCom XML standards. The messagingincludes processes in master data management or itemsand locations; inbound goods such as upront noticationo receipt, receipts conrmation; outbound goods suchas instruction to dispatch, delivery, re-pack and dispatchconrmation; inventory control and management suchas stock reconciliation, sampling, scrapping, (quarantine)status, re-palletisation, pallet de-topping and physicalmovements.

Deployment o the WCI standard has signicantlystreamlined communication between Unilever and DHL,speeding up the launch o new business activities andsites. The creation o a single point o connectivity has alsoimproved the reliability o connectivity to levels well abovewhat was achievable beore WCI. Best practices identiedin individual warehouses are now more easily transerredto other sites.

The standardisation delivered by the WCI standard hasalso allowed Unilever to roll out its SAP consolidation

programme more quickly. Because it is based on theconcept o develop once, deploy anywhere, anothermajor benet has been the reduction o support andmaintenance costs. The level o eciency gains realised bythe project partners through the initial WCI rollout has ledto the decision to deploy the standard to the remainingsites, and to all new sites.

During the project, the partners ound that the then-available versions o the GS1 XML messages did not alwayscover all the requirements o the warehouse processesthey were operating. In some cases, extensions to the

standard GS1 eCom XML messages had to be created.Unilever and DHL are both actively engaged in GS1

Transport and Logistics User Group and in particular,

in the eCom relateddevelopments or this sector.

The Logistics InteroperabilityModel (LIM) documented what processes happen in thewarehouse management and transportation, so thaturther developments o the GS1 eCom standards arebased on the LIM. This development is ongoing now, aspart o the Logistics eCom work group, and both Unileverand DHL are working to ensure that the learnings rom theWCI project are incorporated into uture releases o GS1XML standards.

For more inormation about Unilever, visitwww.unilever.com

For more inormation about DHL Supply Chain,visit www.dhl.com

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According to the US National Private TruckCouncil, approximately 28 percent o trailers on Americanhighways are currently running empty, resulting in highcosts to companies, the economy and the environment.

Two progressive companies Macys Inc., one o theUSAs premier retailers, and Schneider National, a leadingprovider o transportation and logistics are among the

more than 30 companies coming together with a newsense o urgency to solve this simultaneously age-old andyet contemporary issue. Together, Schneider and Macysare realizing both nancial and environmental gains bylling empty trailers with the help o the Empty MilesService, an innovative online solutiondeveloped jointly by the VoluntaryInterindustry Commerce SolutionsAssociation (VICS), GS1 Canada and

GS1 US.

VICS is a member

driven, not-or-prot association that, or over 20years, has created best practices andstandards-based solutions or theconsumer goods sector.

In 2009, VICS launched an Empty MilesService to enable its members tomatch their empty trucks and trailerswith other pre-qualied shippers orcarriers that can use the space or

shipments. This service brings togetherretailers, manuacturers and carriersto collaborate and mutually benet.It is an industry-wide solution thatdirectly supports companies supply-chain optimization and sustainabilitystrategies.

The ambitious Empty Miles Serviceis also an aliate member o the United StatesEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) SmartWay

Transport program and is aligned with the goals o

the sustainable goodsmovement. Their strongrelationship allows members

to link to EPA/SmartWay rom the EmptyMiles home page.

GS1 identication keys and barcodingstandards, such as the Global LocationNumber (GLN), were used in the

implementation o the Empty MilesService to ensure that all participantsare using a set o common identiers,and thus can communicate clearly andeciently.

As charter members, Macys andSchneider National are using theEmpty Miles Service to explorenew ways o working together. Inturn, they are contributing to their

respective companys business goalswhile elevating the collective ocuso the transportation industry to limitthe impact o empty miles on theenvironment.

Traditionally, carriers and retailers try toll backhaul opportunities by manuallysearching within their own company

and through their external network a process that maytake hours and too requently produces poor results.With the Empty Miles Service, carriers or private feets

(lane publishers) can post their empty trucks/trailers androutes, while shippers (lane subscribers) can post theirtransportation needs. By participating in the Empty Miles

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Service, each company has an opportunity to reach newtrading partners lanes or a carriers lane. Using the EmptyMiles search engine, companies with empty or partiallyempty trailers can search or partner companies to sell orutilize the next leg o a transportation lane.

From the beginning, Schneider national decided to reallyutilize the service instead just posting and waiting. They

made a strategic decision to do it right and eel theireorts are paying o. By working closely with Macys,Schneider has been making headway in growing itsaverage weekly loads.

Macys is also an organization committed to improvingsustainability at every level, and the Empty MilesService created an opportunity or them to limit theenvironmental impact o their day-to-day businessoperations. One member o their logistics team qualiedthe project as a win-win or Macys and Mother Earth.Macys is now challenging all o its suppliers to get

involved with the Empty Miles Service.

Early in their EmptyMiles partnership,Macys andSchneider outlineda cost structure and service-level requirements that madesense or both companies. Schneider has not only met butalso exceeded Macys expectations. The companies planto continue to strengthen their carrier relationships andleverage the Empty Miles Program to urther eliminate

ineciencies and drive their mutual commitment tosustainability.

In addition to giving back to the environment, the EmptyMiles Service makes sense rom a nancial perspective.

Trading partners can now share capacity in ways that helpeveryone benet. The original carrier recovers revenuethat would have been lost with an empty trailer and theshipper saves by shipping its reight at competitive rates.For example, by identiying round-trip opportunitieswhere one lane is available, Macy s determines where itmight be able to partner to ll empty trucks or trailers. The

net impact: Macys is eliminating trucks on the road orsustainability results and shipping at competitive marketrates.

They are dedicated to this program and its ability tosupport operational eciency, and as o Q4 2009, hadseen an increase o 30 backhaul loads per week, or aprojected 1,500 loads per year, at competitive market

rates. For each lane opened, Macys reduced annualisedtransportation costs, on average, by $25,000. Schneider,meanwhile, had eliminated 61.65 tons o carbon dioxide,147.24 tons o particulate matter and 1.47 tons o nitrousoxide while saving 5,554 gallons o diesel uel andincreasing dedicated backhaul revenue by 25 percent onaccounts using the Empty Miles Service as o that sameperiod. Eliminating 11 percent o its empty miles andmoving 22 percent more backhaul reight with membershippers has led to signicantly reduced costs. Based onimproved capacity optimization, Schneider is able to oer

more competitive rates and still oer the premium servicethat shippers expect

Both companies agree that lling empty miles withthe VICS service is good or the economy, good or theenvironment, and healthy or those companies that knowhow to leverage it eectively.

For more inormation on Empty Miles program:www.emptymiles.org

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Health and hygiene products manuacturerKimberly-Clark Australia and its carrier, Toll Logistics,worked together on a pilot designed to replace the foodo everyday paperwork that fows between them withelectronic messaging. The results have been impressive:reconciliation errors were reduced, and those whichremained were resolved in just two days (compared toan average o 10 days previously), while the time spent

creating consignments and managing accounts receivablewas slashed rom our hours to 20 minutes.

The pilot was part o a wider industry project managedby GS1 Australia called Demonstrating the Benetso Adopting Global GS1 Standards by LogisticsService Providers in the Retail Grocery and GeneralMerchandise Supply Chain. This project was supportedby an Inormation Technology Online (ITOL) grantrom the Australian Departmento Communications, Inormation

Technology and the Arts.

Toll Logistics operates onsite atKimberly-Clarks South Australianacility, creating loads, dispatchingvehicles and delivering stock directlyto Kimberly-Clark customers. As anexperienced GS1 System o standardsuser, Kimberly-Clark has well-developedorder generation and e-messagingcapabilities that connect it withmany o its customers. Unortunately,

e-messaging had not been used by itslogistics carriers, making creation oconsignment notes and validation orecipient created tax invoices (RCTI) andremittances extremely labour intensive.Kimberly-Clark had been automaticallygenerating orms or about seven yearsbut, because carriers didnt have thesystems in place to accept the data, theywere transmitted as axes that had to behandled manually by the carriers.

At the same time, Toll Logistics had equally powerulsystems in place, but the diverse requirements o hundreds

o its customers made integration a challenge. Many oToll Logisticss customers had the right oundations ore-messaging but used proprietary systems, which requiredcustomised interaces. The implementation process was

oten long and complex.

Brought together by GS1 Australia underthe umbrella o the industry project,both companies saw an opportunity tobridge the gap using the GS1 System,since the standardised approach wouldallow a single solution to be used acrossthe industry, both in Australia andinternationally.

For Kimberly-Clark, the adoptiono the GS1 System was relativelysimple, while Toll Logistics had to do

some programming and messagingdevelopment. To ensure timerameswere met and to gain a swit appraisalo the likely benets, the pair agreedto implement a two-phase proo oconcept pilot.

Under phase one, Kimberly-Clarkgenerated a special advance ship notice(ASN) suitable or carriers (carrier ASN)

that contained all the data needed by the carrier to create

and cost the consignment, including the route, vehicletype, number o drops, pallet ootprints, et cetera.

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A GS1 number was used as the ASN reerence numberand output as a bar code on printed shipment maniests.During the pilot phase, the XML-based ASN was emailedto Toll Logistics, although in ull implementation a moresecure and manageable communication protocol replacesemail.

In phase two, the Toll

Logistics driver ensuredthat each customersigned against the barcode to provide proo o delivery.At the end o each day, the Toll Logistics driver presentedthe completed shipment maniests to Kimberly-Clark,which then scanned the signed-o bar codes, matchingeach drop-o to the details already on le. Automatically,the Kimberly-Clark system generated an RCTI that, oncevalidated by Toll Logistics, became the basis or paymentby electronic unds transer, conrmed with an electronicremittance advice. In eect, the process is driven entirelyby the client and simply veried along the way by the

carrier.

A rst signicant beneto this unconventionalapproach is that theinormation is o much higher quality than in the past.Kimberly-Clarks data comes straight rom its productionand distribution centres. Because e-messaging doesnt relyon the typing accuracy o the administration team or thecareul ling o paperwork, there is less data loss, and as aresult less revenue loss and ewer errors.

A second major benet is improved eciency. In thetraditional model, Kimberly-Clark clerks at every sitechecked o carrier invoices line by line, inormation whichoriginated with Kimberly-Clark and had then been givento the carrier, who then returned it as part o their invoice,wasting time and eort.

Toll Logistics sees a competitive advantage in datatransparency, as well. Having all the necessary inormationbeore providing the service allows the carrier to add valueby planning, so the right resources are in the right place at

the right time.

The pilot projects success has encouraged bothKimberly-Clark and Toll Logistics to progress towards ullimplementation. Kimberly-Clark has polled its top tencarriers to learn more about their inormation fows andhas held meetings with them to discuss the benetso e-messaging. Toll Logistics is committed to ullimplementation and plans to keep on trucking with GS1standards.

For more inormation about GS1 Australia, seewww.gs1au.org

For more inormation about Kimberly-Clark Australia, seewww.kca.com.au

For more inormation about Toll Logistics Australia, seewww.toll.com.au

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GEFCO is one o the leading transport andlogistics companies in Europe. With a turnover o 3.5billion in 2008, GEFCO has grown at a constant 40% peryear since 1998, and currently has over 10,000 employeesin 27 countries across our continents.

As a solutions architect and integrator, GEFCO isresponsible or engineering, operating and implementing

logistics solutions covering part or all o the supply chainor a number o strategic industriessuch as automotive, consumer goods,electronics, aeronautic and more.

A logistics integrator such as GEFCOguarantees tracking o goods alongthe whole supply chain, workingclosely with suppliers, manuacturersand retailers. The use o standards orlabeling, messages and barcodingenables GEFCO to synchronise

inormation exchanges betweenthese dierent players and to secureinormation and transaction fows.

In 2009 the GEFCO group decided to implement the GS1SSCC Identication Key or all o its transport activities inEurope. The implementation o this GS1 standard has beencareully adapted to the requirements o more than 2,000GEFCO customers who use it as they ship over 100,000parcels every day.

Building on the GS1 System o standards, GEFCO teamsdevelop tailor-made solutions or customers, including: Modication and update o tools and client interaces(EDI, computer systems, barcode scanners) Analysis o labeling system impacts on existing EDImessages and the systematic migration to GS1 eComstandards Communication and training o all internal and external

logistics teams

An example o such an implementationwas driven by the need or increasedreliability o cosmetic goods distributionor one o the largest specialiseddistribution networks in Spain. Twolarge retailers, who had entered apartnership to launch a chain o retailstores in Spain, wanted to increasethe perormance o cosmetic goodsdistribution to their 84 retail outlets

both in terms o quantity (with deliveryo approximately 4,000 pallets per year)

and quality, in order to improve their brand image.

The previous product distribution solution consisted odirect delivery rom the suppliers to the retail outlets,utilising a multi-standard labeling system; this methodsuered rom high transport costs and excess complexityin fows and product tracking management.

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GEFCOs solution optimised both physical and inormationfows by better taking into account the needs o bothsuppliers and retail stores. The solution, based on theimplementation o GS1 labeling and EDI standards or allsuppliers and retail outlets, put in place a Flows Manager

responsible or the ollow-up o physical and inormationfows and a solution or consolidation supplier fows.

Under the new system, parcels are delivered by arequested date based on retail outlet orders to GEFCOsMadrid platorm. At the same time, GEFCO receives aReceipt o Despatch Advice (DESADV) linked to eachdelivery. For those goods controlled by GEFCO, there isalso a transmission o Reception Advice (RECADV) to thestores that describes the contents o each parcel. Thesystem enables multi-supplier pallet consolidation oreach retailer and transmission o a consolidated Despatch

Advice (DESADV) or every truck departure. Each advicelists all the articles, orders and parcel reerences or eachretail outlet.Pallets are then delivered to each individual retailer inspecic time slots using dedicated means.In addition to that system, a client portal (web) has beenimplemented to track orders and messages in real time.

The new system has delivered signicant benets,including:

Detailed visibility o shipped goods or each supplierand store Guaranteed ollow up and tracking o all shipments bypallet and parcel Secured retail deliveries in quantity and quality

- Reduced risk o loss or breakages- Product integrity and brand image isguaranteed to point-o-sale (close to 100%)

- Respect o delivery time slots (close to 100%) Increased quality o service and client satisaction Optimisation o physical/inormation fows andassociated logistics costs

- Supplier fows synchronised and consolidated- Message harmonisation between all parties inthe supply chain

- Reduced receipt, control and handlingoperations

Sustainable development- Reduced CO emissions (pooling and increasedreliability o supplier fows)

- Over-labeling has now been eliminated

Based on the demonstrated success o the Spanishsolution, GEFCO will be working to implement GS1standards with other European clients in order to helpthem to benet rom deeper integration in the supplychain and increased reliability o transport operations andtracking.

For more inormation, visit www.geco.net/en

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Dachser is an international reight and logisticsservice provider with 18,100 employees worldwide and anannual turnover o 3.6 bn Euro. Their business model restson three pillars: European Logistics, Air & Sea Logistics andFood Logistics. At their 305 locations, they move about43.3 million consignments weighing a total o 29.1 milliontons. A high level o IT-expertise, the worldwide integration

o logistics services and the state-o-the-art inrastructureare the strengths o Dachser.

The GS1 Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC) playsa crucial role in all Dachser processes along the wholesupply chain. This GS1 Identication Key has becomean indispensable tool or all participants in warehousingand transport processes. In 1994, Dachser becamethe rst logistics provider worldwide to establish thecomprehensive usage o the GS1 SSCC across the entirelogistics chain.

Dachser deployed MDE (Mobile Data Capture) devicesand pen-keys (mobile computers) as a logical part o aprogramme o automation and standardisation o logisticsand inormation processes. There are now more than 9,100o these devices in use at Dachser. This gure explainsthe great importance o the barcode: indeed, barcodessupport all the logistical processes along the entire supplychain and are essential or all o Dachsers work.

Data input is done using theinternationally recognised GS1-128

BarCode Symbology and the GS1SSCC Identication Key. The GS1GTIN also enables absolute control ocommissioning in the warehouse. TheGTIN is a unique key used to identiyindividual articles.

For transport, the SSCC is used by thesender. It acts as the basis or the use oautomated warehouse managementsystems and simplies control andaccounting processes between service providers and

customers. The recipiento the SSCC can, in turn,easily control and manage

the incoming storage processes eciently. At Dachserthe SSCC is the basis or seamless tracking and tracing,and also meets the legal requirements or identicationand traceability. In this way, all parties benet rom the

consistent use o the SSCC.

Beginning right rom order entry, theSSCC becomes a unique reerence onthe multi-language label. From themoment a shipment is dispatched,all stakeholders can retrieve its lateststatus simply by keying the SSCC intothe Dachser eLogistics portal withoutneeding to register or login. Registeredusers, however, can also nd detailedinormation on all shipments, andaccess archived delivery receipts and

delivery notes. I a problem occurs (or example improper

packaging), the customer can even access the photodocumentation stored in the portal and immediatelytake action.

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The centre o all inormation fows is the EDI Centerdeveloped and operated by Dachser themselves. It isthe central communication platorm between Dachserand their business partners that enables connection andoptimisation o business processes.Completely independent o any ERPsystems o the participants, standardisedor customized interaces enable quickand easy integration o businessprocesses. In this way, already more than6,000 business partners using EDI arelinked to Dachser.

Avoiding application errors whileoptimising potential benet is also thegoal o the advanced shipping notice(DESADV) used in combination with theSSCC. By providing advanced shipping notice the picking

and relocating processes are optimised; thus minimisingwaiting times, cycle times and error rates. In particular, therapid and ecient response to alse deliveries can help toward o economic damage.

Quick reaction is also made possible by a supply chainevent management application called Active Report,which has been developed in-house by Dachser. Thisapplication proactively checks shipment data or problemsand automatically sends messages i certain dates areexceeded or i any pre-dened errors occur. Thus, anincrease in eciency throughout the value chain is

achieved by the automating o manual processes.

The quality o logistics depends on the degree o processresponsibility and dominance, and ultimately proves itselin quantity: Dachser daily manages over 100,000 deliveriesand about 1.2 million picks in the warehouse. Dachserachieves process optimisation by a careully thought-out quality management and high data quality. Anotherimportant success driver or optimised processes is real-time data transmission across systems based on seamlessidentication, interactive scanning and picking, as wellas standardised deliveries and plausibility checks at the

transport unit level. Dachser uses the SSCC at all interacesor identication o transport units.

All in all, Dachser eels strongly that the SSCC provides avital contribution to the logistics sector in the optimisationo all processes within the value chain. It oers highbenets or service providers, customers and logisticians inequal measure.

For more inormation about Dachser,visit www.dachser.com

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Bring Frigoscandia is a logistics company in theBring group, ocusing on temperature controlled logistics.Bring Frigoscandia creates competitive advantages or itscustomers through fexible and eective logistics solutionsor ood items. Its distribution network is adapted or ooditems that cover all the markets that are important or theNordic ood industry. Bring Frigoscandias vision is to bethe ood industrys rst choice or logistics.

To improve and simpliy the understanding o theircustomers inormation fow, Bring Frigoscandia has chosenthe GS1 System o standards as the basis or all inormationexchange, whatever the means o communication. Inclose cooperation with their customers, Bring uses GS1guidelines or the numbering o identities, label layouts,and barcode structures as well as or Electronic DataInterchange.

Bring Frigoscandia uses the GS1 GTIN to uniquelyidentiy items in the dierent AIDC and EDI processes

that link them with their customers as well as or internalcommunication purposes.By using the GTIN as a coreidentier, items can easily berecognized by all partners in the

supply chain. Another GS1 Identication Key, the SSCC, isused to uniquely identiy all logistic units or both internaland external track and tracing. Every time a unit is handled

at a Bring Frigoscandia site, its SSCC is scanned and loggedin the companys track and trace systems. Finally, the GLNis used or identiying both consignors and consigneesand or identiying partners in the EDI communicationfow. These GS1 Identication Keys are the oundation onwhich all other GS1-based applications are built. BringFrigoscandia believes in the reliability and integrity othe GS1 System and eels strongly that more companiesshould deploy it in their supply chain processes.

Bring Frigoscandia also uses the GEPIR system to identiyand recognize partners and their GLNs. By using SSCCand GTIN in combination with GEPIR, Bring Frigoscandiacan identiy who has sent a particular SSCC and who hassupplied the item.

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The GS1 standard label layouts contain standard GS1data elements both in text and barcoded ormats. Thisconstitutes the basis or all other communication fowsand or the automation on Bring Frigoscandias sites. Thebarcoded inormation on labels enables ecient datacapture both at receipt and delivery. I goods are deliveredto any o sites without compliant GS1 labelling, BringFrigoscandia re-labels them according to GS1 guidelines.

At Bring Frigoscandia, all Electronic Data Interchange isperormed according to the GS1 eCom guidelines usinga number o standard messages. Beore delivery to any oBring Frigoscandias plants, customers send a despatchadvice (DESADV) on item level (i the items are purchased)or despatch advice on SSCC level (i delivery is sent romtheir own production sites).

Ater automatic controlling andcounting procedures enabled bydata capture through the bar codes

on the GS1 standard labels, a receiptadvice (RECADV) on SSCC level is sentas a receipt conrmation, includingpossible delivery deviations or eachconsignment.

Inventory reports (INVRPT) are sent byBring Frigoscandia to customers viaEDI on a regular basis, which enablesautomatic comparisons and tuning o stock balances incustomer systems.

Bring Frigoscandias customers send selected portions otheir customer orders (ORDERS or INSDES) to the currentwarehouse, where an automatic allocation o items ismade. Beore shipping the items, each unit is marked witha GS1 STILL label showing the correct routing and addressinormation together with the SSCC. The scanning oGS1-128 bar codes containing the SSCC guarantees thatthe right item is routed to the right consignee. Shipmentis conrmed to customers by a despatch advice message(DESADV) including possible delivery deviations. At thesame time a despatch advice will be sent to the consignee

where the AIDC procedures based on the GS1 Systemrestarts.

The use o GS1 standards in Bring Frigoscandias logisticsprocesses complies with European ood traceabilityregulations. Government ood authorities can instantlybe provided with detailed inormation about the originand destination o any item. The same inormation, aswell as any other relevant data, is also available to BringFrigoscandia customers through the networking systemsthat Bring Frigoscandia provides. In these visibility systems,

also all other relevant data are included.

Bring Frigoscandia is a long-time user o bar codes ascarriers or core inormation on dierent levels in thesupply chain. However, market requirements continue toevolve, and new technologies such as RFID are requiredto urther increase eciency. When the market developsto a point where implementation o the RFID solutions

across the supply chain is required,then GS1 labels will be complementedwith invisible RFID tags containing thesame data as the barcodes. This will

enable the automation systems alongthe supply chain to read barcodes,RFID, or both, depending on the localenvironment and other circumstances.Bring Frigoscandia will work closelywith GS1 to urther develop industryguidelines or the use o RFID in thesupply chain.

At Bring Frigoscandia, automatic handling has been raisedto higher levels by using AIDC based on the GS1 System o

standards. The company eels that their eorts to connectthe dierent GS1 tools to a common data languageintegrated into their systems has resulted in an oer thatallows them to provide a highly ecient logistic handlingon their sites. Using the GS1 System in this way has beena major actor enabling Bring Frigoscandia to achieve itsvision.

For more inormation about Bring Frigoscandia, visitwww.bring.com/rigoscandia

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Korean multinational LG selected logisticsoperator Dinet as its third-party logistics provider in Perubecause Dinet is one o the largest logistics operatorsin the country, and because Dinets main operations arebased in the Lima metropolitan area. The LG distributionoperation is now one o the most extensive that Dinetoperates, providing ull warehousing services or LGproducts. Although it is a largely manual operation, the

KPIs or the LG operation have consistently been amongthe best o all Dinets customer operations.

Despite these good results, Dinet is always looking ornew technologies, consistently adoptsglobal best practices, and is constantlysearching or ways to improve servicelevels through improved supplychain visibility and the use o bettertraceability. As part o this approach,Dinet acquired a GPS solution romsolution provider Wisetrack to empower

their SCM activities and to urtherimprove the visibility o their units.Wisetrack not only brings a traditionalGPS solution, but it is eectivelya transport management systemembedded in a permanent controlapplication.

In this context, and in collaborationwith GS1 Peru, Dinet started a projectto implement an RFID-based track and

trace solution or the LG operation. GS1Peru was the chosen partner becauseo the experience and knowledge theyhad gained while working on SCMconsultancy and other EPC/RFID projects. GS1 Peru ispositioned as an enabler providing access, knowledge, andtechnology and helping to improve quality and innovationin new and improved processes based on the GS1 Systemo standards.

The high-level objective o the project was not only toimprove the quality o the inormation coming rom

Wisetrack, but also to gain all the possible benets romthe application o EPC technology to the LG operation.More specically, the project objectives included:

Assessment o the suitability o EPC/RFID technology to

the LG Distribution operation Selection o the most appropriate EPC/RFID tagtechnology Integration o inormation rom GS1 EPCglobal and the

Wisetrack GPS solution Elimination o unnecessary processesin order to reduce lead times in thewarehouse A positive return on investment(ROI), taking into account the improvedservice levels, the operational benets,and the required up-ront investment

Besides LG, Dinet and GS1 Peru, otherparticipants in the project included: Wisetrack Peru, the provider o theGPS solution and the inormationsystems platorm UPM Rafatac, the supplier o EPC/RFID tags Impinj, EPC supplier and technicalsupport provider Motorola, provider o the hand held

EPC/RFID solution

The project scope was to collect all theinormation about the activities in the

warehouse, rom the requirement picking to the deliveryo the goods. The project was divided into two pilotphases, aligned with the objectives, with a third phase orthe deployment o the complete solution.

In the rst phase, ocused on evaluating the technical andoperational easibility o the technology, the project scopewas to prepare the picking o 200 items and their deliveryto two dierent LG customer warehouses. The objectivewas to conrm the technical integration between EPC andthe Wisetrack solution in a live process.

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This objective was achievedwith the required perormancequality, using the GS1 EPCstandard and GS1 GLNIdentication Keys with EDI to create an interchangeplatorm between LG and Dinet.

To conrm the results o the rst phase, the second phase

implemented ve dierent shipping notices, with theobjective to measure the process activities, the time saved,and the labor orce requirements. Since the technicaleasibility had been completed in phase one, the workocused on the nancial ramework to support the ROIcalculations and to determine the t with the ROI toolsdesigned by the Massachusetts Institute o Technology(MIT), the Stanord Global Supply Chain ManagementForum and GS1 EPCglobal.

The operational assumptions or the ROI analysis were that:

Products would arrive with EPC/RFID tags attached atthe actory, with the serial number already encoded in thetag using a GS1 S-GTIN Identication Key LGs customers might have an RFID solution in place toreceive the goods, but i not, a mobile handheld readercould be used The tags would be encoded with GS1 EPC identiers

Ater the data was compiled, the ROI analysis showeda three-month payback period or an initial investment(primarily or the RFID equipment) o USD $22,500,

generating approximate cost savings o USD $9,800 permonth.Since the scope o the project also includes the deliveryo goods rom Dinets warehouse to LGs customers, manyadditional benets were identied at this level, including:

Elimination o serial number errors Signicantly reduced customer rejection o serialnumber errors, leading to the elimination o lost sales,return transport costs, delays, and credit notes as well aswarehouse space savings Reduced time spent on serial number capture Warehouse space savings or dispatch serial numbercapture

Reduced time spent on unit counting andmerchandising review Improved disposition o eld transportationunits Increased quality in preparation o dispatched goods Improved visibility and traceability o items (by serialnumber) by each Shipping Notice on route Enabling o on-line loaded and unloaded goods

conrmation Reduced time cycles or distribution and paymentdocuments Improved control o transportation units Document visibility in real time, or each delivery point Enabling o on-line, cross-system Proo o Delivery

Ater these very satisactory rst results, the next stepsinclude undertaking a complete nancial analysis or RFIDimplementation at LG points o sale and a easibility studyto implement integrated RFID/GPS technology in Dinets

trucks.

For more inormation about LG, visitwww.lg.comFor more inormation about Dinet, visitwww.dinet.com.peFor more inormation about GS1 Peru, visitwww.gs1pe.org

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Exel, a wholly owned entity o Deutsche PostDHL, the worlds leading logistics group, is the NorthAmerican leader in contract logistics, providing a variety ointegrated, value-added and specialist services to a widerange o industries including retail, consumer, technology,automotive, healthcare, chemical and industrial.

Exel is a long-time active

member o the GS1 Transport& Logistics action groups. Aterhaving run a number o RFID

pilots in various acilities around North America, Exel sawthe opportunity to signicantly improve eciencies inits container handling acilities through the integrationo EPC Gen2 RFID tags into an applicationor yard management. Working closelywith RFID equipment provider Motorolaand solutions provider PINC Solutions, Exelspecied requirements or a vendor-hostedYard Management System (YMS) to handle

more than 300 trailer spaces at a SouthernCaliornia Trans-Load Facility.

Implementation o the project took lessthan our months. The system providesreal-time yard visibility or the acility, thanksto one PINC Gate Management moduleat the entrance, and three PINC Trackermodules or the yard trucks that movetrailers and containers around the site. ThePINC solution oers quick and easy access

to high-level inormation, an appointmentscheduling capability that reduces dataentry upon asset arrival, and highly accuratetrailer location using a combination o GPSand EPCglobal C1G2 RFID. The use o passiveRFID technology has signicantly reducedcosts, and the system perorms yard countsin background, provides email notication opre-determined events, and all documentsare digitally stored and searchable. Users have ound thesystem easy to learn and easy to use.

When a trailer arrives at the acility, a temporary EPC/RFID asset tag is assigned to the container at the gateand matched with identiers (i.e. SCAC code and trailer

number) on the container. The feet trailer and shipmentinormation are thus associated with a specic RFID tagnumber during the check-in process. The trailer is thenmoved directly to the assigned parking spot or zone orto a dock door. Yard trucks equipped with RFID readersand GPS receivers keep track o the location o yard assetsand shipments while they are in the yard. EPC/RFID tagsare provided on a temporary basis or third party trailers.However, the system is also capable o using permanentlymounted EPC/RFID tags to give visibility to dedicated feetassets and associated shipments.

The system has doubled gate throughput,and has signicantly increased yardvisibility. It has also eliminated manual yardchecks and most documentation, whileproviding improved operational control

and tracking o assets. This in turn has ledto improved productivity and has assistedin the complete prevention o penaltiesassociated with yard delays and loss otransportation asset visibility. Administrativeeort has been reduced by one third,leading to lower headcount requirements.Since the drivers spend less time waiting,they can spend more time driving andwaste less uel. Improved data accuracy andcommunications have enabled act-based

decision-making and issue resolution.

Looking ahead, Exel will be able to extendvisibility o assets to its customers usingthis unique YMS solution, and will considerintegrating the YMS with its warehousemanagement systems. Exel is also reviewingopportunities to use permanently mountedEPC/RFID tags on feet trailers in order

to urther increase gate eciencies and move towardsa multi-enterprise system, providing a platorm orcollaborative supply chain practices.

More inormation about Exel at www.exel.com

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GS1 Hungary and the Hungarian Ministry oEnvironmental Protection and Water rst began workingtogether in 2002, a cooperation that resulted in GS1Hungary developing an Electronic Hungarian WasteManagement System (e-HWM system) or the Ministry.

The e-HWM is an IT system that uses the GS1 GLN toidentiy legal entities and the GS1 GTIN to identiy specicproducts (e.g. reusable packaging) in the eld o waste

management and environmental product tax regulation.In a similar eort, in 2008 GS1 Hungary launched a GLNdatabase or Hungarian companies working with this typeo legislation.

Seeing the many benets, in 2008 Hungarian CustomsAuthority also began to use the e-HWM in alignmentwith the Ministry. It was at about this same time that GS1Hungary and the Hungarian Customs Authority starteddiscussions on possible new areas o cooperation, withthe objective to sign a bilateral agreement to extendtheir proessional cooperation. The talks were ruitul, and

the agreement was signed in March 2009. Accordingto its terms, GS1 Hungary will provide ongoing supportor the work o the Hungarian Customs Authority viapresentations, education eorts and the implementationo GS1 standards wherever needed. Furthermore, whereHungarian laws and regulations have already mandatedthe use o GS1 standards, GS1 Hungary will ensureongoing consultation and support or the CustomsAuthority. Detailed rules o collaboration are dened inseparate contracts between the parties.

Following the new agreement, GS1 Hungary preparedexpert studies on the ollowing subjects:

The potential benets o the GS1 GLN-based position/location identication system in Hungarian CustomsAuthority processes, especially when used to support thesupervisory processes with mobile communication tools,and to assess the benets o a synchronised usage o GPSand mobile communication technologies

The introduction and implementation o GS1 DataMatrixsymbols on the tax stamps or Hungarian alcohol and

tobacco products subject to excise

The potential benets o the introduction o uniormdocument identication in Customs Authority processesbased on the GS1 GDTI (Global Document Type Identier)

The studies demonstrated that solutions based onGS1 standards could urther support and acilitate theHungarian Customs Authoritys daily working processes.

The result is a new level o cooperation between GS1Hungary and the Excise Directory o the CustomsAuthority, which was ormalised in August o 2009 with thesignature o a separate agreement. This new cooperationocuses on tracking and tracing excise goods, especiallyalcoholic beverages. The Hungarian Customs Authoritynow plans to legally require that all alcoholic beveragescarry an ECC 200 Data Matrix symbol, as named in the ISO/IEC 16022 standard, or tax stamp purposes. GS1 Hungary

is holding other discussions with Customs in order toexplain the benets o using the GS1 Data Matrix, whichcan be very eciently linked with the GS1 BarCodesalready on alcoholic products.

Thanks to the cooperation with the Ministry between 2003and 2007, there were more than 20,000 new GLN usersin Hungary, above and beyond the 7500 users o the ullGS1 System. Then, because o the entry o the HungarianCustoms Authority into the waste management area,there were 19,000 new GLN registrations in 2008 and 2009,

bringing the total number o Hungarian GLN users at theend o 2009 to close to 40,000.

Further cooperation between GS1 Hungary and theHungarian Customs Authority should generate signicantbenets or both parties, including the implementationo new solutions based on global GS1 standards, urtherimproved eciency and visibility in daily workingprocesses, and the introduction o Hungarian GLN users tothe benets o the rest o the GS1 System.

For more inormation, visit www.gs1hu.org

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In 2009, GS1 Spain launched a working group todene the business requirements or using the GS1 Systemo standards to make feet management more ecientand more eective. Companies like El Corte Ingls, DIA(Carreour group), Mercadona, DHL, Eroski, Easytech,Camporo and Sotec took part in this collaborative eort.

Fleet management is a unction which allows companiesthat rely on transportation in theirbusiness to remove or at leastgreatly minimize the risks associatedwith owning and maintainingvehicles. Proper feet managementcan optimize investments, improveeciency and productivity, reducea companys overall transportationcosts, provide100% compliance withgovernment legislation, ensure cold-chain management or chilled or rozen

ood and much more.

The most basic component in all feet managementsystems is vehicle tracking. This is usually GPS-based,but in some cases can instead be done using a cellularnetwork triangulation platorm. Once a given vehicleslocation, direction and speed are determined rom theGPS or cellular input, additional tracking capabilitiestransmit other bits o inormation to a Fleet Managementsotware application, such as temperature, door status,cooling equipment on/o, engine on/o, weight et cetera.

Data can be transmitted either terrestrially or by satellite.Advanced feet management systems can also connect to

the vehicles onboard computer and gather data such asmileage and uel consumption rom it or use in a globalstatistical-analysis scheme.

All o this data gathering and analysis can be managed and

run by either an in-house feet-management departmentor by an outsourced feet-managementprovider.

GS1 standards could have asignicantly benecial role to play infeet management systems like theones described here. The GS1 Spainworking group successully identieda set o requirements and transmittedthem to the eCom Logistics Standards

Work Group within the GS1 GlobalStandards Management Process. Therequirements will be included in the

Business Requirement Analysis document or the GS1eCom Transport Status Notication message. The result willbe a standard that allows or the exchange o inormationbetween all the trading partners based on GS1 eCom XMLmessages and using the GS1 GLN to identiy the partiesinvolved. Implementation among GS1 Spain memberscompanies will likely occur in 2010, as soon as the GS1XML messages are available.

For more inormation about GS1 Spain, visitwww.gs1es.org

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Sweden is a logistical challenge: 1500 kilometersrom north to south, but only 9 million people. This meansthat transportation costs can become quite a large portiono the total cost o products sold in distant parts o thecountry. Not surprisingly, Sweden has a long tradition onding ecient and cost-eective logistics solutions.

Indeed, there have been a number o national standardsinitiatives in the Swedish logisticsindustry since the early nineties: ThePharos initiative, or example, createda solution or transport management.Pharos was managed by a nationalindustry organisation, but since GS1was recognised and valued by theindustry, some GS1 ID Keys, primarilyGS1 SSCC, were recommended (but notmandated) as identiers. The GS1 eComsolution was largely compatible with

EANCOM, but not completely compliant.

The Standard Transport Label (STE) was initiated with thesupport o GS1 by logistics companies that were seekingto benet rom barcode technology. The STE is nowwidely used or transport in the Nordic countries. SSCC wasnot mandated when STE was created, but has proven tobe robust and popular and is now used on more than 75%o all goods shipped within Sweden, with an estimated35,000 STE printers installed in the country.

A warehousing eCom standard based on EANCOM wasdeveloped by GS1 Sweden and the Swedish logistics usergroup, and has been implemented by a wide range ousers.

A number o international and local companies, industryorganisations and public authorities have been involvedin GS1 Swedens user groups over the years, and the userparticipation at national level is very active.

Supplier participants include Arla Foods (dairy), Procordia(packaged goods), Unilever (packaged goods), and Scan

(meat and derivatives). Retailers involved in the usergroup include Axood, Coop, and ICA. Transport andLogistics participants include Bring Frigoscandia, DHL,

DSV, Green Cargo, Schenker, Stena Line, Swedish Customs,and Swedish Post. The Swedish Rail Administration haslaunched an EPC pilot or its reight operations.

A ew basic guiding principles are used in all Swedish

national user groups: Emphasis is made on the benets ocombining GS1 keys, barcodes, eCom,GDS, GEPIR and other GS1 solutions. Theocus is on business requirements witha process-oriented approach. Technicalsolutions (EDI mappings etc) arespecied by GS1 and then approved bythe users. GS1 sta act as consultantso the user groups and not as meetingorganizers, and all decisions are basedon a consensus o participants. Swedish

users are encouraged to participatein GS1 global development eorts,although oten it is GS1 Sweden sta

who represent their interests. An incremental approach toadopting GS1 standards is recommended, instead o tryingto adopt the entire GS1 System at once.

Swedish Transport and Logistics users have been activein global GS1 initiatives, such as Transcore and theLogistics Forum, or many years. The desire to ensurethat Swedish national solutions remain compatible withglobal standards has created an interest to participate

in the GSMP work groups, as well as in the recentlylaunched GS1 Transport & Logistics Industry EngagementProgram. Bringing more than 15 years o experience inthe implementation o GS1 standards in Transport andLogistics processes, the Swedish user community is eagerto share its experiences in GS1s global developmenteorts.

GS1 Swedens website is at www.gs1.se/en

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