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Major conference on global data standards

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New Zealand’s progress with global standards for supply chain efficiency, data management and traceability will be under the spotlight at a major conference in February.

GS1 New Zealand will bring together senior business people from this country and internationally for a “Connecting the Dots 2009” event on 25–26 February at the Heritage Hotel in central Auckland. The agenda will focus on the development and use of GS1’s global standards and solutions in key economic sectors that include grocery and hardware retailing, primary sector processing and healthcare.

New Zealand is one of 108 countries where GS1 standards have been widely adopted in systems for automatic identification and data capture that rely on bar coding or radio frequency identification (RFID). GS1 New Zealand is a not-for-profit body with broad membership among retailers, manufacturers, distributors and servicing firms.
In 2009, it will be 30 years since the first globally-standard bar codes were introduced to this country through the then-New Zealand Product Numbering Council, forerunner of GS1 New Zealand. GS1 bar coding has long since become ubiquitous in retailing and in supply chains economy-wide.

“It’s hard to imagine our super-markets operating without point-of-sale scanning of bar codes,” says GS1 New Zealand chief executive Peter Stevens. “The savings in cost and time are simply enormous although largely taken for granted these days. Thirty years after the first bar codes, there are huge opportunities and challenges in front of us to extend the use of global numbering schemes and bar codes, and to roll out newer standards and solutions that use RFID. The potential efficiencies and savings are even more important in economically hard times.”

International speakers at “Connecting the Dots 2009” will include: Miguel Lopera, chief executive of GS1 Global and a pioneer in business collaboration; Neil Lawrence, IDC Technologies programme leader with the NHS Connecting for Health initiative; Michelle Adams, an executive with US building supplies group Lowe’s; Sanjay Sarma, engineering professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and RFID expert; and Richard Leonard, a senior executive at food retailing group Tesco Asia.

New Zealand speakers will include business leaders from Fonterra Brands, Progressive Enterprises, Foodstuffs, Gen-i, SATO and the hardware, kiwifruit and meat processing sectors. The conference will also focus on developments here and internationally in the use of automatic identification and data capture for improved safety in the healthcare sector.

Register for “Connecting the Dots” by visiting www.gs1nz.org, or call Pauline Prince on 04 494 1067

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