What’s Happening at GS1 Canada
SIAL Canada 2018 Highlights
GS1 Canada was a proud exhibitor and presenter at SIAL Canada 2018, which took place in Montreal this year. While at the show, representatives from GS1 Canada met with a wide variety of people involved in the grocery and foodservice industries to answer questions and help explain how GS1 Canada can help their business.
On top of our presence on the show floor, we also hosted two presentations discussing timely industry topics.
One of the presentations was given by Charmaine Kuran from Health Canada and Daniel Clark from GS1 Canada’s Montreal office (and SIAL’s designated “Barcode Guru”), where they highlighted the implications around the increase in consumer demand for visibility and transparency around ingredients in the products we consume.
Their presentation, Building Trust and Transparency in the Age of Changing Consumer Demands, particularly focused on Health Canada’s initiative to reduce sodium, it discussed how ingredients are presented on the label and how nutritional facts table are presented for increased, easier visibility.
The second presentation was given by GS1 Canada experts Michel Boucher and Melanie Barlow, providing insights on how Grocery and Foodservice manufacturers can navigate the Canadian market.
Using real-world experiences as examples, the presentation highlighted the importance of identifying products with GS1 identifiers and barcodes and meeting Canadian trading partners needs for high-quality images and bilingual content.
SmartLabel™ Extract – Coming Soon
To facilitate Canadian manufacturers’ participation in FCPC’s SmartLabel™ initiative, GS1 Canada is launching a new, value-added SmartLabel™ Extract service, providing the product content you have already certified for faster, more efficient development of your SmartLabel™ consumer webpages. Having already invested the time and resources in ensuring quality data, you can now use also that content to populate your content in SmartLabel™.
Leveraging the same content also ensures you are maintaining data quality and consistency for your products across all platforms.
Because GS1 Canada knows what data SmartLabel™ requires, we can extract and organize data to SmartLabel™ specifications in a format that is already prepared for integration into SmartLabel™ consumer webpage templates.
SmartLabel™ Extract uses certified data from the ECCnet Nutritional Content (for food products) and ECCnet eCommerce Content (for non-food products) registries, and offers flexible extract options for your to receive your data extract, such as downloadable files or API feed.
TrueSource™ Dashboard – Coming Soon
Good business is driven by great data. We are excited to announce the latest enhancements to TrueSource™ Dashboard, a standardized industry data excellence tool that enables trading partner collaboration to achieve a 100% accurate and complete product catalogue that can be relied upon to fuel critical business processes by enabling you to easily view your product status and quickly identify content gaps. This visibility helps to facilitate efficient meeting preparation, product planning and swift issue resolution as it relates to data excellence, business strategy and meeting trading partner and regulatory requirements.
The latest enhancements for TrueSource™ Dashboard include:
- Two Views to Product Data for Data Providers.
- With the new My Dashboard view, you can view the engagement, completeness and compliance of your product data, separate from trading partner needs, across key business processes related to your ECCnet Industry Managed Solutions. This helps increase data quality, increase operational efficiencies and improve business opportunities.
- With the My Trading Partner view, you can view your data metrics against the requirements of your trading partners using TrueSource™ Dashboard, ensuring compliance with the ECCnet Industry Managed Solutions they require and improving trading partner relationships and confidence.
- Addition of the eCommerce Content business process to provide visibility to the status of products for eCommerce readiness.
- Enhanced content capture metrics for content-related business processes to provide increased visibility to the status of products in the content capture process.
New Data Recipients at GS1 Canada
GS1 Canada is pleased to welcome two new data recipients: Freson Market Limited and Stewart Foodservice.
Freson Market Limited focuses on providing a unique Alberta food experience in all their 15 (soon to be 16) locations throughout Alberta. Their Fresh Market concept focuses on three simple beliefs: that really great quality food matters, it's the little things that count, and the belief in the value of human connections. Their focus on natural sourdough, fresh Alberta meat, home cooking, legendary in-store made products, and healthy choice options is how they do things differently, maybe even better than the rest.
Stewart Foodservice is a customer-driven, full-line, Canadian owned foodservice distributor operating in Ontario. They offer the best products, invest in a well-stocked warehouse, computer systems and infrastructure to deliver a quality customer experience. Stewart’s is the right size with the right experts to keep the focus on individual customers and their needs.
