WATCH OUT: 6 Supply Chain Show Stoppers

2. Business Unit Granularity
GS1 Compliance is achieved but no one has embedded the label logic crediting the product’s sale back to the right unit in your organization. Until the problem is solved you don’t know which products are selling, which ones are making money, until the end of the year accounting.

3. 3rd Party Recalcitrance
You’re on board but your partners are dragging their feet or waiting for you to solve their labeling problem. They don’t have the knowledge or the infrastructure to meet the need. Our Internet–based approach – over which you retain control over every label – is simply delivered to your partners. We embed the access control, rights authority, and everything else that guarantees you, and they, are compliant and up and running.

4. Data Democracy Pitfalls
You’ve decided to let each business unit solve this problem to their unique needs and style. This is possible, but not necessarily practical. In the end, you’ll need a corporate–wide view into the status and whereabouts of all products, everywhere. It won’t be easy to reverse engineer every separate unit’s solution into a corporate hierarchy tied to your overarching database software. A top-down approach now saves time and money

5. New Product Rollout Disasters
New product rollouts and line extensions get delayed at the last minute when product managers realize that even a unit count change of the same medicine, for example, constitutes a new or different product requiring a new compliant label. A centralized corporate system, designed by Loftware, with headquarters in charge of it, streamlines new label compliance and/or new packaging issues which can delay new products.

6. Labels Change Often During Product’s Supply Chain Journey
Your system can produce a GS1 compliant label at the product’s origin, but as the product travels through the supply chain, what triggers a new label requirement, and when and when that happens, who knows it and how does that person generate the label without compromising your compliant system?

Loftware is a supply chain label expert, familiar with every issue affecting labeling as products go from their manufacturing site to the end customer.

Are you ready for emerging market standards?
We are!

The era of a new and powerful international product identification standard is upon us. It’s called GS1. Among its advocates, of which we are one of the first among many, this new standard is expected to drive and fuel the global supply chain and streamline product exchange through all channels, from manufacturing to consumer use, for years to come: everywhere; for all products.

GS1 has significant momentum because it promises major economic benefits to product providers; because it can match the increasingly sophisticated hierarchies of today’s modern supply chain, distribution systems, and product variations; and because sovereign governments worldwide as well as consumers everywhere are demanding a safer, more reliable, and more responsive system for more complete and accurate product information, from genesis to ultimate use.

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