Supply chain & traceability (RFID/barcodes) :: Topics

Reducing recall risks in the global supply chain
Peanut butter, mince and spinach teeming with Salmonella or E. coli … In recent years, high-profile product recalls have underscored a growing problem for manufacturers with global supply chains. The results can be lethal and costs can be enormous.
Quality assurance incentives can reduce recall risks in supply chain for manufacturers
Global supply chains bring with them huge difficulties of assuring quality and ensuring supplier responsibility for their products. A different solution to this problem, suggested by Professor Luciana Echazu, revolves around the supplier's contract.

Machine Vision Inspection: Benefits, Applications & Vendor Selection tips
In recent times, the technology options for machine vision inspection systems have increased, the cost of these solutions has reduced and hence the adoption has dramatically increased. These solutions, if implemented wisely can provide a competitive advantage for manufacturers as well as provide cost savings.

Safe, efficient routes for dangerous goods in Europe
Choosing the best and most cost-efficient route for transporting goods is even more problematic when the goods are dangerous. A new system has been developed in Europe which could make these calculations easier.
International Food Chain Integrity and Traceability Project
The International Food Chain Integrity and Traceability Project is project designed to achieve end-to-end supply chain system assurance.
Investment potential in China's cold chain logistics
Australian companies with the expertise and resources needed to fill the gaps in China's inadequate cold chain logistics stand to benefit from a projected USD$160 billion in annual cost savings that a modernised system could deliver
What's happening to our freight industry?
Has anyone else noticed that 2008 is already shaping up to be a bad year for logistics in Australia?

Icon Global Link and the Victorian Freight and Logistics Council supply chain portal
Icon Global Link and the Victorian Freight and Logistics Council (VFLC) have partnered to launch the Supply Chain Business Activity Harmonisation Study (BAHS) website: http://www.supplychainbahs.com.au/. The site will provide resources to industry and government in supply chain and logistics including training courses, reports, case studies, statistics and presentations. It will provide detail on how supply chains interact at each node and provide visibility across the entire network of both information and product flows.
JDA Software supply chain assessment tool
JDA Software is offering free supply chain assessments. Its assessment tool combines the best of traditional online value calculators and on-site assessments from consultants or technology vendors to deliver a simple, quick process that packs a lot of analytic horsepower.
Coca-Cola Amatil NZ goes to GS1net
Coca Cola Amatil (NZ), a leading NZ producer of soft drinks, diet drinks, juices and juice drinks, waters, energy drinks, sports drinks and cordials, has become GS1net live using Bizcaps’ E2 software to publish data to GS1net for its trading partner Foodstuffs.
Davidson Tech PackMin Management System
One of the most important and difficult issues to manage with food production is traceability. Users need to know exactly what goes into each batch of product and keep track of stock from the time that it comes in the door right through to when it goes out to customers. Keeping track of all of this using paper or spreadsheets is difficult, inefficient and error-prone. The PackMin Management System can integrate with a company’s current processes, saving time and money. And it keeps track of everything without any extra effort.
GS1Locatenet
GS1 has unveiled an electronic location directory that connects purchasers and suppliers around Australia. The central registry, known as GS1Locatenet, improves the speed and accuracy of supply transactions and build traceability in the supply chain. The service is available to all users of global location numbers (GLNs) across all industries.
UPM Raflatac Freezer-proof RFID tags
UPM Raflatac Freezer-proof RFID tags have been designed to operate reliably within freezer environments down to -40°C. Now RFID tags can effectively automate the collection of data for the receival and storage of goods and inventory for frozen goods.
Vehicle-mounted RFID reader
The Motorola RD500 vehicle-mounted RFID reader can be installed on a forklift backrest or mobile cart. It automatically reads and records any Gen2 RFID tag within range.
3G wireless WAN mobile computers
Intermec has introduced the CN50 and CN4 — advanced, rugged 3G Wireless WAN (WWAN) mobile computers for field mobility applications. The CN50 includes 3.75G WWAN HSUPA radio technology in a small, lightweight, ruggedised form factor.
Management software
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has announced the latest version of its Proficy Change Management, version 5.9, featuring web-based client enhancements that provide users with ‘thin’ client capability for version control, audit trails and secure access for popular automation products.
UHF RFID tags
UPM Raflatac optimised Dog Bone, Short Dipole and Frog RFID tags claim improved performance. The updated UHF EPC, Class 1 Gen2 products have been enhanced with Impinj’s Monza3 ICs. All three products offer 96-bit EPC memory, high read sensitivity and reliability across long read ranges, making them appropriate for a wide range of applications. Moreover, they function near challenging materials such as metals, liquids and on closely packed products.
Cost-to-service analysis
CoreProcess has developed software which pinpoints all ‘downstream’ expenses, effectively measuring key indicators and identifying opportunities for manufacturers to streamline their distribution supply chain and reduce costs.
Resource management and supply chain visibility
Syscan International has developed a solution for the cold chain industry: iCE — a wireless RFID device that allows reliable data acquisition based on IEEE 802.15.4.
Talking bar code scanner
Life just got a whole lot easier for Australia’s vision impaired with the release of a portable talking bar code scanner.
Bar code reader with integrated connectivity
The Leuze electronic bar code reader family has increased to include the BCL 500/i, a series featuring a range of more performance features.
RFID developers kits
Unique Micro Design has released the SkyeTek range of RFID developers kits.
Real-time ingredient traceability
Lawson M3 Trace Engine 3.0 is designed to help companies in the food and beverage industries improve product quality and help prevent and manage potential food safety and quality risks.

New food distribution model could mean a shorter journey from paddock to plate
A cutting-edge short supply chain engineered by a Southern Cross University researcher could change the way food is delivered from farmers to consumers.
Rail, road or waterway?
A software package developed by researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics calculates different variants and transport configurations to find the optimum solution that fits the specified criterion: costs, time or, in a future version, least environmental burden. It even factors in the time and costs for transhipment.
IBM and OATSystems bring RFID downunder
IBM and OATSystems have announced that they will deliver the joint RFID solutions they have marketed successfully overseas to Australia and New Zealand.
Ceva wins prestigious UK accolades
Ceva Logistics has won the Information Management Award at the UK Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) annual award ceremony in London, for its solution to capture and automatically analyse tachograph data.

JDA software implementation helps Wrigley manage its supply chain
Wrigley has implemented JDA Software’s Space & Category Management solutions to manage its large volume of retail planograms, fixtures, floor plans, store/cluster data, product attributes and performance information.
Traceability and Brazilian UHT milk
Brazilian food cooperative Aurora is harnessing Tetra Pak’s next-generation traceability solution to increase production efficiency and add brand value to a newly launched UHT milk product.
Labelling and tracing kiwifruit
A complex web of freight and distribution services exists to service the kiwifruit market both in New Zealand and overseas. With growth in the volume of trade and rising consumer awareness of food safety guidelines, the kiwifruit supply chain encapsulates major logistical challenges that must be met to ensure the New Zealand kiwifruit industry’s competitive position in the marketplace.
Cordina Chickens fly to GS1net
Cordina Chicken Farms has been declared GS1net-ready, able to validate, electronically exchange and synchronise product data with its trading partners through GS1net, using Bizcaps Enterprise software and Bizcaps Bureau Service.
Darrell Lea sweetens its GS1net experience
Darrell Lea has chosen Bizcaps Eziform to help it publish its product data to GS1net to enable it to exchange and synchronise product data with its major trading partners.
Nestlé Nespresso implements warehouse management solution
Nestlé Nespresso, leader in the portioned coffee market, has successfully implemented Manhattan's Warehouse Management Solution (WMS) for Open Systems at its distribution centre (DC) at Alfortville in France.
Fresh look at EDI
Australian financial software developer, JIWA Financials, has announced completion of the first implementation phase of its financial software solution at Harvey Fresh (1994) Ltd

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