ISA Lunch N Learn Ill Buy the Beer

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ISA Lunch N LearnIll Buy the Beer

• June 2, 2008

EC Workshops, LLC
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Ill Buy the Beer

• If I cant make your business, whatever it is,
  better with bar codes..

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Paula Giovannetti

• GS1 Bar Code Business Req. Group
• Global standards for bar codes and data
  structures
• EPC Technical Development Committee (RFID)
• EDI Standards Committee (XRG)
• North American EDI for Retail, Grocery, I/C
• Give Workshops
• Ohio University, Gateway Technical College, York
  U, W.W. Grainger, JCPenney, Kohls, Best Buy, US
  Army Tank, Automotive Armament Command,
  Chick-fil-A, MSC Direct, etc.
• Vice President, AIDC 100
• Top 100 active internationally in Automatic
  Identification Data Capture

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Current Global Standards Involvement

• GS1 Bar Code Automatic Identification Business
  Requirements Group
• Bar code symbologies, GTIN, GLN, RFID
• Maintain GS1 General Specifications
• EPC Technical Development Team
• EPC TDT Process Message Sub Team (EDI/RFID)
• XRG X12 EDI for North America Retail,
  Grocery, Industrial / Commercial
• Trading Partner Performance Work Group

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Agenda

• Applications and Case Studies
• Relevant Standards bodies
• AIDC basics
• New Bar Code Symbologies and Scanners
• RFID

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Something to Think About

• There are 76.6 million Baby Boomers, who in 2008
  are 44 - 62 years old.
• They will be replaced in the workforce by 49
  million X Gens ages 31 - 43.
• Where will we get people to answer customer
  questions, count inventory, manually key data..
• Their commitment is to their career.
• They will work where they want to work. Will
  they want to work for you?

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Applications and Case Studies

• Bar Codes are NOT just for retail
• Tiles on the shuttle
• Work in Process
• Receiving
• Manage Scrap

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Case Study 1 Manufacturing Work in Process

• Job shop shut down 2 days a month for Work in
  Process Inventory
• Customers call to ask about their orders
• Bottlenecks
• Track employee time punching time clocks
• Evaluate employees and track productivity
• Validate pricing, which was primarily labor

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Solution

• Use bar codes to track
• Which Job
• Each job was assigned a number, in a bar code
  which traveled with the work.
• Which Step
• Each employee had a laminated sheet with the
  steps in the manufacturing process.
• Which Employee
• The bar code reader tracked who and date/time
  stamped the scan.

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Crunch the Numbers

• Established standard times for each step
• When will it be done compared to promise date
• Employees productivity evaluated and POSTED
• Bottle necks identified
• Employees moved to other work stations
• Dollar value assigned for each step
• Value of WIP is known at all times

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Advantages

• Never shut down for WIP
• Gained 24 work days (one month) a year!!!
• Evaluate employees efficiency
• Efficiency improved because it was tracked
• Replaced Time Clock
• Improved customer service
• Help prevent late jobs
• Answer Customers questions
• Improved through put
• System still works 20 years later

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Case Study 2 Warehouse Receiving

• Shipments were set aside until all cartons were
  received
• If the contents received did not match the pack
  list, they started over
• Often the pack list was wrong
• No individual was really responsible for
  receiving accuracy

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Receiving

• Fork lift drivers never knew when they could
  start to put-away cartons
• If they put them away before the second count
  they had to bring them back
• No uniform product ID bar code on the carton
• Multiple labels on each carton old and new
• IF YOU DONT RECEIVE IT RIGHT, NOTHING CAN GO
  RIGHT AFTER THAT!

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Solution Put Away Labels

• Narrow the scope of receiving
• Determine from pack list and carton marking
• Supplier
• PO Number
• Item/s
• Quantities

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Accuracy Accountability

• Would only identify carton contents once
• Emphasis on doing it right
• Associates worked in pairs
• One received
• One double checked

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Print Put-Away Label

• Print a label with an orange border
• Receive date, PO, product ID in text bar code,
  Qty
• If applicable Mixed SKUs in large letters
• Initials of the two receivers
• If the label is wrong the receivers were held
  accountable
• Carton placed in a post-receiving area
• Carton with an orange labels are eligible for
  put-away
• After 6 months they ordered labels with a blue
  border
• When picking pick the orange ones first

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Case Study 3 Scrap

• Manufacturer using brass hinges and locks
• Scrap rate was high

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Solution

• Placed boxes with bar codes on each workbench to
  collect and track scrap rates
• Each evening the boxes were emptied
• Scrap went down 37

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• What problems do you want to solve??

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Automatic Identification and Data Capture AIDC

• 10 word for bar codes
• AIDC Technologies
• Linear and 2 dimensional bar codes
• Radio frequency identification tags
• Magnetic stripe
• Smart Cards
• Voice data entry
• Biometrics

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Bar Codes are Beautiful in Their Simplicity

• A data entry device
• What you scan is sent to the computer
• Data entry 1 error in 300 characters
• 1 in 26 UPCs keyed in would be wrong
• AIDC 1 error in 3 million characters
• 250,000 UPCs captured without error

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Black and White

• Simple rule crisp and contrasting
• Light creates a wave when it absorbs and reflects
• The wave is digitized to create narrow and wide
  spaces and bars
• This data is decoded

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Data Standards and Structures
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GS1 Standards

• GS1 - US
• Previously the Uniform Code Council (UCC)
• Assign Company Prefixes, manage X12 EDI for
  grocery and retail
• www.gs1us.org
• GS1
• Combination of EAN International and UCC
• Manage EPCglobal, Inc. and the GS1 Global Data
  Synch Registry
• EDI (EDIFact / EANCOM) and XML Business Messages
• www.gs1.org

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Open Supply Chain

• We need globally unique identification when an
  item or carton hits the open supply chain
• 3rd Party Warehouses, Transportation Carriers,
  Customs Border Patrol, etc.
• To insure uniqueness, we use specific data
  structures
• Because we no longer make it in the back room and
  sell it out front, there really is no such thing
  as internal use.

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For Example

• Lady in a drug store
• Charged for photo finishing
• Her library card number matched the internal
  number for photos in the store
• The Wall St. Journal thought it made a cute
  story

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AIDC Components

• Data / Structure / Carrier
• Data
• Unique ID Number for items, assets, locations
• Structure
• Using GS1 company prefixes to insure uniqueness
• Carrier
• Data carrier like a bar code or RFID tag

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Data and Structure

• Global Trade Item Number
• Any item (product or service) upon which there
  is a need to retrieve pre-defined information and
  that may be priced, or ordered, or invoiced at
  any point in any supply chain.

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Data and Structure GTIN-12

• 614141 54321 9
• GS1 Co. Reference Check
• Prefix Number Digit

Prefix assigned by GS1 a Brand Owner assigned
reference number to make the GTIN unique a
Check Digit for authentication.
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Different Types of Symbologies

• UPC
• ITF
• GS1-128
• GS1 DataBar
• Data Matrix
• Etc..
• The business application determines which
  symbology to use

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Carrier Application Appropriate

• Omni Directional for POS
• EAN/UPC
• GS1 DataBar
• Printed on cardboard during manufacturing
• ITF
• Using AIs to carry a supply chain data on a
  label
• Code 128
• Data Matrix
• GS1 DataBar
• Direct Part Marking
• Data Matrix
• Small footprint - Fruit, curved surface,
  healthcare items
• Data Matrix
• GS1 DataBar

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Symbologies Used Around the World
EAN/UPC Used at POS and for all trade item
identification
GS1 Code 128 Supply Chain Data Item ID, Expire
Date, Lot, Variation, etc.
Interleaved 2 of 5 (ITF) Item ID on carton at
manufacture
GS1 DataBar (Reduced Space Symbology) Twice as
much of the same data as Code 128
Data Matrix Five times the same type of data as
Code 128


ALL can carry GTIN!!
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DataBar for Small Items
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Mission Impossible

• Your assignment, should you choose to accept it
• The Red Army Barcode Lab in Moscow (Russia) asked
  for a bar code capable of encoding the Cyrillic
  alphabet that could be stenciled on a wooden
  crate with a can of spray paint by 17-year old
  conscript and have better than a 95 first pass
  readability after the crate had been sitting
  outdoors for five years at an Army depot in
  Siberia.

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Ultracode

• According to Ultracode's developer, Dr. Clive
  Hohberger of Zebra Technologies, applications for
  Ultracode could include direct marking on
• Lumber, stone, concrete, rubber, steel coil, and
  metal fabrications.
• Ultracode is a first-of-its-kind symbology
  described as the "next generation linear"
  symbology
• It incorporates features of both linear and two
  dimensional (2D) bar codes
• Draft of the standards were submitted for review
  in August, 2007

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Whats New in AIDC?
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New Camera Based

• Very new, but competitively priced
• Takes a picture of the bar code
• Solves the algorithm
• It will find the good part of the bar code and
  read that
• Used in many countries in Europe and in Japan to
  read bar codes with phones

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Radio Frequency Identification

• Read bar codes for free
• In an unattended mode
• Network static and dynamic data
• Trade Item attributes
• Part Number, description, measurements, price
• Open order information
• Order, inventory, shipping information
• Event data
• What, where, when, how many

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RFID Applications

• Tag Cars with I-Pass and EZ Pass systems
• Tag Kids in amusement parks
• Pay for your next drink

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Yard Management Systems

• Put a 3 temporary tag on the back of a trailer
  when it enters the yard
• Its assigned a unique ID number
• Put a reader and a GPS on the yard donkey
• As it drives by you know where the trailers are
• A relatively inexpensive Real Time Locator System
• One major CPG manufacturer will get ROI the week
  its installed

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Ford Trucks

• Put readers in the back of the truck
• Put a computer and screen in the dashboard
• Make sure you are heading out for the day with
  the right tools and materials (they will have
  chips in or on them)
• Make sure you head home with the right (same)
  tools at night

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RFID Applications

• Food / Drug Tracing
• Counterfeit detection
• International Chamber of Commerce 8
• Prevent theft and shrinkage (employee and
  organized)
• Ernst and Young study 46 Billion / year
• Automatic check out
• Call out stale / discontinued product
• Find product in wrong locations
• Automatic recycle sorting
• Warrantee information
• Returns handling (this item was sold to.)

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Contact Info

• Paula Giovannetti
• 262-949-4057
• paula_at_ecworkshops.com
• Join us for the Second Annual ISA eBusiness
  Summit at the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul,
  November 19 20!

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GS1 Publications

• GTIN Allocation Rules Website
• http//www.gs1.org/gtinrules/
• Bar Code Verification for Linear Symbols
• http//www.gs1.org/docs/barcodes/GS1_Bar_Code_Veri
  fication.pdf
• GS1 Standards Glossary
• http//www.gs1.org/docs/barcodes/GS1_Standards_Glo
  ssary_of_Terms.pdf
• GLN Allocation Rules Website
• http//www.gs1.org/glnrules/
• GDSN Trade Item Implementation Guide
• www.gs1.org/services/gsmp/kc/gdsn/index.html
• GDSN Validation Rules
• www.gs1.org/docs/gsmp/gdsn/GDSN_Validation_Rules.x
  ls
• Check Digit Calculation
• www.gs1us.org/checkdig
• Package Measurement Rules
• www.gs1.rog/docs/gsmp/gdsn/GDSN_Package_Measuremen
  t_Rules.pdf
• Package Measurement Tolerance
• www.gs1.org/docs/gsmp/gdsn/GDSN_Standard_Measureme
  nt_Tolerances_Best_Practice_i1.pdf
• Global GS1 Electronic Party Information Registry

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GTIN SYMBOLS BARCODES
GTIN UCC-12 Symbol UPC-A UPC-E Used at POS
GTIN EAN-13 Symbol EAN-13 Used at POS
GTIN EAN/UCC-8 Symbol EAN-8 Used at POS
GTIN EAN/UCC-14 Symbol UCC/EAN-128 Application
Identifier (01) Indicator Digit 1 Not
approved for POS
GTIN UCC-12 padded with zeros Symbol
ITF-14 Used on Cardboard No Application
Identifier Not approved for POS
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