Suppliers working in Australia’s $4 billion stationery industry can look forward to
improved sales processes and better relationships with their major retail customers when they join the GS1net community.
GS1net allows suppliers to enter, validate, store and maintain all their product, pricing
and other related trade information in a single location. They can then easily share this
information with the trading partners they work with, across all industry sectors, both in
Australia and around the world. Grocery suppliers and their retail partners such as Coles, Woolworths and Metcash
already use electronic data synchronisation via GS1net as their preferred method of
product information exchange, and now the stationery industry can also join this
electronic commerce initiative thanks to Officeworks and GS1 Australia. The foundations have been laid Retailers and suppliers in the office products sector have been working with GS1
Australia to drive best practice supply chain practices across the sector, utilising the GS1
standards. Adoption of the GS1 standards will bring improved business efficiencies and
effectiveness for all parties within the supply chain. The Office Supplies GS1 Action Group (OSGAG) was established to focus on improving
the merchandising and supply chain processes across the sector. The recognition that an
improvement in the quality of item master data flowing through the supply chain would
achieve a range of benefits, OSGAG has committed to endorsing the use of GS1net for
item master data synchronisation between trade partners. Electronic master data synchronisation within the industry sector, via the GS1net data
pool, commenced in early 2011. Several suppliers in the office supplies industry are
already involved with data synchronisation for the grocery industry and have realised
benefits to their organisations.
Adoption of GS1net as the single source data repository for your master data will enable:
* Improved accuracy of orders.
* Reduced catalogue and data management costs across the sector.
* Fewer forms to fill out.
* Fewer duplicate systems and processes – one format for many trading partners.
* Improved inventory control and management.
* Improved efficiency and accuracy of reporting, both internally and with trade partners. Join the leaders OSGAG is overseen by a representative leadership group (Steering Committee) made up
of key retailers and suppliers across Australia and New Zealand. The current steering
committee consists of representatives from Officeworks, OfficeMax Australia, Corporate
Express, Warehouse Stationery NZ, ACCO Australia, Pelikan Artline, Australian Office,
Avery Dennison, GS1 New Zealand and GS1 Australia.
Leading stationery and office supplies retailer Officeworks has been working hard to put
in place the systems and processes for electronic master data synchronisation with its
suppliers, and is looking to now engage more of them in the implementation of GS1net.
In the coming months, Officeworks expects many more of its suppliers will join those
who are preparing to enjoy, or already are enjoying, the benefits of belonging to the
GS1net community. Find out more at free information sessions GS1net User Group updates will be held in Sydney on 8 November and in Melbourne on
10 November, 2011. This follows the successful user groups held in May. The user groups are a great
opportunity for potential and existing GS1net users to interact with other GS1net
subscribers and network, as well as to speak directly to the GS1net Services Support
team. Register now at www.gs1au.org/services/gs1net/ and click on GS1net/NPC User Groups.
For more information contact Catherine Koetz – GS1 Australia, Office Supplies
GS1 Action Group, on 1300 BARCODE (1300 227 263).
Background
GS1 Australia is part of the largest supply chain not-for-profit organisation in the
world. We are a member of GS1, which is driven by more than a million member
companies. In consultation with industry, the team at GS1 Australia develops global, open, user
driven multi-sector standards and helps businesses implement the GS1 standards to
make businesses more efficient and drive costs out of the value chain. The GS1
standards are a global way to identify individual products, locations, services, assets,
documents and more. By using standards in supply chain identification and communication, all trading
partners speak the same “global language” no matter where they are in the world
and what IT system they use. At the forefront of eCommerce and Supply Chain
Management initiatives, GS1 Australia currently services 18 industry sectors and
supports over 17,000 members nationally. Back to Home page
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