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GS1 eConnect
(October/November 2018)
News & Articles

The Importance of Digital Standards for the Information Age
 
Since the post-war economic boom, modern commercial industries have had more than half a century to form and gradually reform the way they do business to attune to the changing needs of producers, consumers and the supply chain. By contrast, digital sales have developed at such a pace that industry has had little time or appetite for normalisation.

Information in the online world is currently presented in a myriad of different formats across multiple platforms and in accordance with in-house criteria rather than industry-wide norms.

In the big data age, the result is a morass of information that is often repeated as a whole or in part across the 
worldwide web in a way that is seldom interoperable.
 
Click here to find out more

Barcode Symbol Verification Services (1D/2D) 
 
When a barcode symbol fails to scan, it leads to what we call a ‘scanning failure’. This ‘scanning failure’ can be solved at the early stages of the printing process, and these mistakes can be rectified before the product is delivered to be sold at retail stores. Therefore, verification has now become an important quality control tool as it helps to ensure the correctness of the number, physical attributes of the barcode symbol such as size, height, location and etc.

What benefits will you have?

  • Save Time & Money:
    Avoid redesigning, reprinting or recalling your products due to unworkable barcodes

     
  • Better relationship with customers:
    Manage retailers’ frustrations by ensuring that your barcodes do not fail to scan

     
  • Trusted Service:
    As a GS1 Singapore member, you can rest assured that your barcodes are tested using the ISO-15416 (Automatic identification and data capture techniques for the one-dimension symbol) and ISO-15415 (Automatic identification and data capture techniques for the two-dimension symbol) verification method.

Click here to find out more


Warm Welcome to the following new GS1 Singapore Members:

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If you would like your logos featured, please email 
it to david.chong@gs1.org.sg

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AXIS WORLD PTE LTD
BEE SIM FOODS PTE LTD
DAR EL BACHA PTE LTD
ELSE PTE LTD
FRESHDIRECT PTE LTD
GREENCO INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD
GROUPE SEB SINGAPORE PTE LTD
INNIKACHOO PTE LTD
13 ANTZ PTE LTD
SYK ASIA COMMERCE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD
GOODLIFELIVING
GREENSPADE GLOBAL PTE LTD
AI LIFE HOLDINGS PTE LTD
INFINITE BEAUTY INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD
KOK FAH TECHNOLOGY FARM PTE LTD
OLD SENG CHOONG PTE LTD
IAM HEALTH PTE LTD
O2 WATER PTE LTD
O2 WATER PTE LTD
SOCIAL BENEFITS PTE LTD
EPITEX INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD
ENDOMASTER PTE LTD
GLOBAL VANTAGE INNOVATIVE GROUP PTE LTD
LITTLEOAK ORGANICS PTE LTD
1st WORLD OIL PTE LTD
BEVASIA PTE LTD
CHOP HIN LEONG
CUBEFLEX PTE LTD
EURASIA GLOBAL TRADING PTE LTD
ESTHEMEDICA PTE LTD
FOSSA CHOCOLATE PTE LTD
FAIRE HOLDINGS PTE LTD
SENKON PHARMACEUTICAL (S) PTE LTD
WITS CLINIC
SINGAPORE YONGAN PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY PTE LTD
D.S.T. GRP PTE LTD
INNOSO PTE LTD
INDOSTOP SINGAPORE LLP
THE FISH NET PTE LTD

Transforming the Last Mile:
Emerging Innovations & Solutions

 
For The World Economic Forum projects that by 2050, approximately 66 percent of the population will live in cities, urbanised  metropolitan areas and mega cities.

For last-mile logistics, this means more complicated deliveries,
densertrafficand a higher carbon footprint—coupled with a growing number of customer shipments and demands, rising costs and significantly shorter lead-time for fulfillment.

So, how can industry keep up with rapidly evolving customer-driven trends and a growing population—all while streamlining Transport & Logistic (T&L) processes?

 
Click here to read on!

What does the future hold for Fulfillment?

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Zebra recently surveyed manufacturers, retailers and logistics firms to see how they’re handling new customer fulfillment expectations now that  e-commerce accounts for $2.3 trillion in global sales.

The study revealed that:
  • 95% agree that e-commerce is driving the need for faster delivery.
  • 55% of organizations still use pen and paper to manage omnichannel logistics.
  • 61% say automation is disrupting the industry.
It’s clear that the rise of omnichannel fulfillment is sparking big-time changes. Where will the industry go from here? The answer: It’s going digital.
 
Click here to see the report

Yaskawa Electric Corporation's BarTender Deployment 

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Yaskawa Electric Co., Ltd., founded in 1915, develops and produces cutting-edge technologies for the manufacturing industry, such as motion control, robotics and power conversion. Yaskawa created the world’s first general purpose transistor inverters in the 1970s — the company now ranks as the top manufacturer of inverter products by global market share, with production bases in Japan, the United States, Europe, China, and India.

Benefits of Yaskawa’s BarTender deployment
  • Coordinating label printing with manufacturing lines creates production efficiencies
  • Automating label printing decreases the opportunity for human error.
  • Aggregating label formats using layers and variable data fields reduces the administrative load.
  • Central management of global supply chain provides enhanced traceability.
Click here to see the report
Workshops
GS1 Singapore Coffee Talk Series [eCommerce]
 
Dates: 28 November 2018
Time: 3.30pm to 5.30pm
Venue: 2985 Jalan Bukit Merah, Singapore 159457 (Level 3)

 
Unauthorised Barcodes
Beware of Unauthorised GS1 Barcode Numbers
 
GS1 Singapore is the only recognised body in Singapore authorised to issue and administer the Global GS1 barcoding standards and systems.

Members are to note that GS1 has NO appointed reseller, and are encouraged to be aware of obtaining your barcoding numbers from unauthorised sources.
 
If in doubt or for any further enquiries, please contact GS1 Singapore at 6826 3077 or email us at contact@gs1.org.sg.
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