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What is GS-1 -- GS1 designs and manages a global system of supply chain standards

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Traceability in the healthcare sector

Companies in the pharmaceutical supply chain are adopting GS1 standards to provide electronic pedigrees and meet other traceability needs. For example, pharmaceutical products can be associated with GTINs that can be encoded in barcodes and/or RFID tags. The codes can be automatically read at different process points to record transactions such as physical transfers or changes of ownership. The transaction record could be used to document the items chain of custody.

Product & food safety

Recent consumer safety crises have highlighted the importance of traceability and the need for fast and accurate recall processes. For example, the GS1 Global Traceability solution provides a framework for manufacturers about how to implement a traceability system based on GS1 standards that complies with international regulations. In the event of a problem, this can ensure a rapid recall of a product, thanks to its accurate identification and immediate localization in the supply chain.

Inventory management in Retail and General Merchandise

Using item-level EPC/ RFID tagging improved in-store inventory accuracy for retailers from 65 to 98 percent. Sales increased up to 15 percent, in part because the improved inventory accuracy led to improved shelf availability. They also found that 96 percent of out-of-stock situations are caused by inventory issues in the store, rather than by an event in the supply chain. Automated processes that leveraged standards-based identification and communication to verify deliveries and record items into store inventory reduced receiving time by 85 percent, and there was also a 75 percent reduction in the time required to take in-store inventory.

Shipment tracking in Transport & Logistics

For example, GS1 Colombia has helped a logistics provider set up a collaborative platform based on GS1 standards for key retailers in the country, their suppliers and transportation enterprises. This platform enables the users to track the trucks transporting their goods in real-time using multiple technologies, from GPS to EPC/RFID, and led to a 50% saving in transportation time as well as a 67% reduction in communication costs.

Internal Production & Logistics Applications

Supply chain-oriented standards and processes can be applied to track materials transferred among an Organizations departments and facilities. Enterprise asset management (EAM), warehouse management system (WMS) and other enterprise software can run more effectively if they receive timely, accurate data from barcode and RFID data collection and communication systems. Standards can add value to any process where visibility is desirable. 23

A review on supply chain performance measures and metrics: 2000-2011

Researchers have associated the supply chain performance with measures in the following diverse ways:

qualitative or quantitative (Beamon, 1999; Chan, 2003); cost and non-cost (Gunasekaran et al., 2001; De Toni and Tonchia, 2001); A review on supply quality, cost, delivery and flexibility (Schnsleben, 2004); chain performance measures and metrics.pdf cost, quality, resource utilization, flexibility, visibility, trust and innovativeness (Chan, 2003); resources, outputs and flexibility (Beamon, 1999); supply chain collaboration efficiency; coordination efficiency and configuration (Hieber, 2002); input, output and composite measures (Chan and Qi, 2003); strategic, operational or tactical focus (Gunasekaran et al., 2001); supply chain operations reference (SCOR) model (plan, source, make, deliver and return or customer satisfaction); whether they measure cost, time, quality, flexibility and innovativeness; and, whether they were quantitative or qualitative (Shepherd and Gunter, 2006); modeling the metrics of lean, agile and leagile supply chains (Agarwal et al., 2006); key performance measures and metrics in supply chain (Gunasekaran and Kobu, 2007); scorecard approach (Brewer and Speh, 2000, 2001; Bullinger et al., 2002); tangible/intangible (Park et al., 2005; Saad and Patel, 2006); sustainability/green (Clift, 2003; Hervani et al., 2005); and financial/non-financial (Beamon and Balcik, 2008; Gunasekaran et al., 2004; Gunasekaran et al., 2001).

Building a Vendor Scorecard

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five key issues to consider in building your own scorecards : Metrics Formats Standards Collection Use

Use vendor scorecard for smarter shopping

Items to consider when developing the scorecard include: 1. history and corporate structure, 2. flexibility, 3. communication and enrollment, and 4. implementation and conversion.

Use vendor scorecard for smarter shopping.pdf

University Purchasing Example

University of California San Diego Looks to Gain Significant Efficiencies in Campus-Wide Purchasing Through SciQuest EProcurement Solutions UC San Diego will ultimately implement SciQuest's HigherMarkets application as well as the Contract Manager, Sourcing Manager, Settlement Manager and Supplies Manager modules, bringing all major procurement functions under a single managed solution called "Marketplace". Improve user adoption and productivity
University of -- Promote California San Diego E-Procurement Solutions.pdf

contract compliance

-- Reduce purchasing costs through source-to-settle process automation -- Streamline the purchasing cycle, allowing more time to be spent on supplier performance management and analytics -- Incorporate in-house inventories as part of catalog offering

Scorecard for MSU System

MSU utilizes the Kuali system for purchasing, Kuali Rice can be used to generate scorecards http://kis.kuali.org/projects/project/1 KBI Kuali Business Intelligence Kuali Rice provides common information intelligence tools and frameworks as a foundation for institutions to build upon. Many of the core business concepts and relationships are modeled and delivered as reference frameworks that include: Standard interfaces into the Data Dictionary and Report Metadata Data Management Services Extract, Transform, and Load tools and standards for creating staging, warehouse, and operational reporting structures Data Mart / OLAP generators Visual dashboards and scorecard features Report metadata management

Selecting the best supplier

Selecting the best supplier using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodSelecting the best supplier using analytic This report provides a guideline for establishing supplier selection criteria for purchasing activities of University Procurement Department in accordance with some purchasing topics. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) decision making process functions in terms of the multi-criteria analysis for cost, flexibility, quality, delivery, and variety. The present report provides an accurate and easy classification in supplier attributes that have been prioritized in the model. The issue of choosing a supplier comprises the performance evaluation and analysis of a set of suppliers in order to rank them with the aim of improving their competitive situation in all supply system. Choosing indexes and ranking method are the two most important points in ranking and choosing suppliers. In this paper, 12 effective choosing indexes have been selected via questionnaire given to the experts. We apply Fuzzy Analytic

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Evaluation and Ranking Suppliers in Purchasing Decision Process using Fuzzy AHP

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AHP for University Procurement

Univ Proc using AHP.pdf

Hierarchy Process(FAHP) and experts opinion for choosing the best supplier for Pishrane Company. The AHP method Work steps and contents generally include the following: 1) Establishment a multilevel hierarchical structure model about the purpose, evaluation index (guidelines) and alternative plan etc of evaluation system. 2) The method compares the elements belonging to the same class, takes upper level elements as a criterion, according to the evaluation criteria to determine the relative importance degree and establish the judgment matrix. 3)The method calculates the eigenvector matrix of Judgment matrix to determine the relative importance degree of each factor. 4) The method sorts all sorts of plan elements on the basis of comprehensively important calculation at last, so as to provide a basis for decision-making.