So Important is GS1, Canadian Government Sponsors Workshops

More and more governments are getting behind the GS1 standard. Take Canada for example. Here, from just two days ago, is a news item about a GS1 education initiative being sponsored by the Canadian government:
GS1 Canada has launched a new education initiative, the GS1 Knowledge Center, to educate Canadian businesses… about how they can [...]

GS1 Announces Today its Global Registry Doubled in One Year

If momentum in the marketplace for a new idea implies goodness, GS1 is a very good, very timely idea. Here, courtesy of LogisticsManager.com, and just published within the past couple of hours, is news of GS1’s global growth and adoption rate over just the past 12 months. It is nothing short of phenomenal.
In short, they’re [...]

Why Solutions for Country-Specific Labeling are Paramount

Never mind for the moment that the FDA Amendments Act of 2007 changes everything. That’s a subject for subsequent posts to come soon. And never mind that momentum is building worldwide, at long last, for a global labeling standard called GS1. We’ll talk a lot about that subsequently, too. For now, without reference to the [...]

Power, Potental of Global Standard Lures High-Powered Exec to GS1 US

For anyone still wondering if the GS1 standard holds great promise for international supply chain standardization and velocity, here’s a news announcement from just last month about the GS1 US arm of this movement and the naming of a new Chairman of the Board of Governors.
GS1 US, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the adoption and [...]

The High Cost of GS1?

Here’s an interesting news release that caught my eye January 11th. It’s from an outfit that urges businesses to consider the low cost of their SingleUPC solution versus the high cost of getting on board with GS1. Frankly, I find the argument, and the underlying economic justifications, absurd. Here are the few lines in the [...]

The Simplicity of Velocity and the Power of Agility

Optimizing the speed at which products flow through the global supply chain to an infinite number of end-locations around the world sounds like a very big and complicated contemporary topic. It is and it isn’t, actually. It’s a big topic because product velocity and agility have been the most important concepts in global trade since [...]