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Collaboration is the key mission of VCF and TPMA. Without collaboration, real innovation is limited, effective execution, stunted. Without collaboration, we operate in vacuums and assume the thoughts of our trading partners while overlooking the benefits they may offer. In such volatile economic times as we now face collaboration grows even more imperative.
Supply chain technologies and strategies have driven some costs out of the processes of designing, manufacturing, packaging, marketing, distributing and selling goods, including all of the back-office processes surrounding these, from AP to AR. We now have some visibility into our own supply chains. These technologies offer the promise of further visibility to parties engaged in these processes. To date that promise has not been realized. Why? Because we do not truly collaborate.
Collaboration on product design, pricing, manufacturing, packaging, shipping, and all of the complexities therein will help us cut costs while at the same time increase the velocity and of quality product movement worldwide. Collaboration must also include service providers. When service providers understand our needs, they can better develop solutions that will benefit our businesses. In the end, through collaboration among manufacturers, retailers and service providers, we become better partners with and develop more loyalty with the all-important consumer—at all strata of society.
To truly collaborate we must create community. To that end, the next phase for VCF and TPMA will be the creation of communities around issues critical to manufacturers, retailers and service providers. We will look to you, the members and supporters of VCF and TPMA, to give us your ideas for Communities of Practice. Our Community vision is providing the collaborative platform which will enable us, together, to both lead our industries and provide education surrounding critical areas and issues, from Metrics to Collaborative Forecasting and Planning, from Data Accuracy to Direct to Consumer
posted by Trading Partners Collaboration @ 12/02/2008 12:59:00 PM
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To foster collaboration, we'd like to post a few questions which have recently come in on the Ask VCF line, and invite trading partners to provide discussion points:
1. Are vendors providing the General Certificate required for CPSIA compliance at time of shipment time for each shipment or are vendors using a Web based solution to manage this task? If using a solution, what solutions do you recommend?
2. A houseware vendor has a new product line and is struggling to understand how to package products in cartons large enough to meet the minimum length, width, height and weight requirements without packing more than what a customer’s needs? How do how other manufacturers work through these requirements?
3. Is their a standard for the placement of the UCC-128 Label on a carton? Where do I find this information?
In regard to question # 3, guidelines for the placement of GS1-128 labels (previously UCC-128) can be found at GS1's product site located at http://productcatalog.gs1us.org/. Click on "Barcoding" in the top navigation and then click on "Container Marking"; the document is entitled "Guidelines for Marking Logistics Units Using the Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC)".
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