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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Lorraine,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Before I took up teaching I
worked in the Telecommunications industry for about 27 years. In my last
10 of those I was involved as a consultant in Ecommerce software.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>GS1 is simply an extension or
offshoot from the existing EANCOM standards that the retail industry currently
uses --- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>A little background.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>EDI or Electronic Data
Interchange is a means of exchanging industry standard documents such as
purchase orders, invoices, etc by converting the paper format document to an internationally
recognised electronic format using standards such as ANSI X12 or UN/EDIFACT.
The ANSI/EDIFACT document is posted over a private/secure communications
network using a protocol called X400 and then housed in a mailbox waiting for
retrieval and conversion back to a recognisable in house document. EDI
can also be used with web applications using XML coding and secure web
systems/hosting. It was initially meant to be used as an application to
application system, paperless trading. EDI has been in Australia for some 20-30
years but has never really reached it’s full potential.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Back in the late 80’s,
there were several industry groups using EDI – Automotive industry,
Hardware, retail, pharmaceutical, agribusiness…..from these groups
various industry specific standards arose, in retail this ended up as a
standard called EANCOM which was based around the UN/EDIFACT standard –
United Nations/EDI for Administration Commerce and Trade. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Back around 1985 APNA – The
Australian product Numbering Association was involved with the supply chain
management processes and was asked to come up with a standard that could be
used Globally – barcodes using the EAN (European Article Number) standard
became commonplace. Many companies now started using bar code scanning
systems. In the early 1990’s APNA became EAN Australia with the aim
of managing Australia’s supply chain standards. EANCOM
standards for the retail documents were developed and Woolworths, Coles, etc
took to using these standards with EDI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>From past history, the Retail
supply chain has never been totally happy with the way the processes have been
managed in an end-end system. They have been looking at cost cutting
processes, better management processes, warehousing systems, communications,
etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Over the years, there have been
several EDI networks and vendors in Australia pushing their own products.
Some of these were Telstra, GEIS and NEIS. Each EDI vendor had a market
share of differing industries and GEIS had most of the retail industry so the retail
traders ended up using GEIS products and network. The various EDI
products each had their own characteristics and some products offered better
facilities than others. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Different standards groups came
and went, each imposing it’s ideas on industry. EAN was one of
those. From what I remember, the retail industry was after more secure data
transfers and easier means of tracking the documents exchanged with their
trading partners. They looked at web based solutions as alternatives but
these were more a one to one trading relationship than a one to many system. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Having a quick look through
their (GS1) web site, a lot of the terminology they use has been around for
some time. To me not much has altered only the Name from EAN to GS1 and I
suppose a new push to get industry using their specific supply management standards
for EDI. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Malcolm Carson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Malcolm Carson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>email: mjarb@iname.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>===================================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> destech-bounces@edulists.com.au
[mailto:destech-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tran, Lorraine I<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> destech@edulists.com.au; syseng@edulists.com.au;
aghort@edulists.com.au; foodtech@edulists.com.au<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Design and Technology] Has anyone heard of GS1 Standards?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From
<a href="http://www.industrysearch.com.au/">www.industrysearch.com.au</a>
9/9/08:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hardware retailers ask suppliers to use GS1
Standards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Australia's hardware retailers and buying group are
calling on their suppliers to join in a push for Supply Chain and eCommerce
implementations based on GS1 standards.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Australia's
hardware retailers and buying group are calling on their suppliers to join in a
push for Supply Chain and eCommerce implementations based on GS1 standards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Chair
of the newly formed Hardware GS1 Action Group (HGAG), Mitre 10 Information<br>
Services Manager Andrew Price, said the Australasian hardware industry had an
opportunity to reap the benefits of the GS1 System already proven by the
grocery and other industries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The GS1 Standards website is <a
href="http://www.gs1au.org/products/gs1_system/">http://www.gs1au.org/products/gs1_system/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GS1 Standards can be used in any sector of
industry at all levels of manufacturing and distribution. In Australia, major
system adopters include the <a
href="http://www.gs1au.org/industry/healthcare/index.asp">Health</a>, Steel, <a
href="http://www.gs1au.org/industry/hardware.asp">Hardware</a>, <a
href="http://www.gs1au.org/industry/electrical_apps.asp">Electrical Appliances</a>,
Furniture, <a href="http://www.gs1au.org/industry/meat.asp">Meat</a> and
Telecommunications industries. The system is even used for fire brigades and
electricity generators. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lorraine Tran</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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