Can the Local Community Network Enable New Ways of Working Together? 20 March 2008 May 2008

2 ©2008 GS1 Agenda for 05-May 1. The Opportunity 2. Could LCN Be the Enabler? 3. LCN Today 4. LCN Tomorrow 5. Wins All Around

3 ©2008 GS1 The Opportunity From today to tomorrow companies want to go from How Do We Make This Scaleable? Can GS1 help? From New Ways of Working Together White Paper Sales Buying IT Distribution Logistics Merchandising Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Merchandising Accounting Marketing Butterfly IT Distribution Logistics Sales Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Merchandising Accounting Marketing Sales Buying Diamond

4 ©2008 GS1 TPPM: Minimizing and Standardizing the WAYS we work together… Measure

5 ©2008 GS1 Is There An Opportunity To… …Improve the Communication, make it faster AND consistent across trading partners? Within the Supply Chain Throughout Geographies Of similar / dissimilar Company Types …Internally Across one Companys? Local Divisions to Corporate Center

6 ©2008 GS1 The Opportunity What if we could Align Agendas, Answers and Metrics? Facilitate discussion and communication in a Common Way? How? Using the LCN Common Agenda? Facilitating the questions and answers brought forward by the diamonds?

7 ©2008 GS1 Could LCN Be the Enabler of New Ways of Working Together? Colombia Canada Brazil Australia Germany Netherlands Global Agenda Global Agenda France New Zealand CountryDataPoolManufacturerRetailerSolution Provider Supplier Germany Netherlands Canada08300 Colombia Australia08903 France07103

8 ©2008 GS1 Why Do We Believe LCN Could Help the Diamond Groups? When we started the LCN we were looking for Validation of the core group A standards reconnaissance method What we found was: A real opportunity for communication A change management technique

9 ©2008 GS1 The LCN of Today is a model that deploys GSMP to Member Organization User Groups aligns the global collaborative dialogue on one central agenda provides feedback on SPECIFIC business issues validates business requirements and work group outputs by weighing them against global feedback brings immense opportunity to understand market conditions and implementation concerns LCN Today

10 ©2008 GS1 LCN Today: Enabling Better Standards Development Today LCN is the wise owl The additional set of eyes paying attention to draft Standards in development Example: LCN raised the number of interested parties reviewing Change Requests (CR) by: 1 ½ times for CR (I & II) 2 times for CR /3 times for

11 ©2008 GS1 LCN Today When the Core Business Requirements Group or Work Group asks LCN to perform additional Reconnaissance work on a CR Today LCN acts as the speeding train as in CR (Data Accuracy Flexible Package Tolerances) when no new points were uncovered Or the breaking train as in (GDSN Bulk, Loose, Prepackaged Values) when GS1 Colombia, Germany and Netherlands had additional recommendations Keep Going! You didnt consider all aspects!

12 ©2008 GS1 LCN Today CR #BRG / WG % Rating of High or Medium Value % Expecting to Implement CR GDSN25% eCOM45%36% Party Sync55%40% AI11 slaughter dateBar Codes57% non-consumerData Accuracy73%54% consumerData Accuracy76%54% eCom76%88% Packaging Code ListGDSN83% Today LCN is the GSMP Compass: Are we on the right track?

13 ©2008 GS1 Could LCN Be the Enabler? Could LCN Tomorrow Enable an enlarged dialogue focusing on collaboration issues? Bring consistent answers to trading partner collaborations? Improve awareness across geographies?

14 ©2008 GS1 Local Community Network Colombia Canada Australia Germany Netherlands France New Zealand IT Distribution Logistics Sales Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Merchandising Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Sales Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Merchandising Accounting Marketing Brazil IT Distribution Logistics Sales Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Merchandising Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Sales Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Merchandising Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Sales Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Merchandising Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Sales Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Merchandising Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Sales Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Merchandising Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Sales Accounting Marketing IT Distribution Logistics Merchandising Accounting Marketing Global Agenda Global Agenda Brazil New Zealand Australia Netherlands ColombiaFranceGermanyCanada

15 ©2008 GS1 LCN Tomorrow An opportunity for Diamond Groups around the world working in a consistent manner, knowing whats going on in other Diamonds, solving problems consistently? Trading Partners Common Performance Management Measurement? Trading Partners Common Business Planning through global agendas and issues resolutions?

16 ©2008 GS1 LCN Tomorrow Could LCN enable New Ways of Working Together and : Provide a framework, a new environment and culture where information is shared and used to enable companies to make smarter business decisions? vision and key principles for information sharing Consider change management aspects of information sharing? new ways of working together Identify data that flows through value chain? build a data matrix to cover source, ownership and business process in which data is used Give special consideration to marketing data and the consumer insights perspective which are traditionally out of scope in many value chain studies?

17 ©2008 GS1 The Goal: Wins All Around 1.Global Enterprises Win Get the Big Picture across geographies! 2.Member Organizations Win Play a Key Role! 3.Small and Medium Sized Companies Win Engage in Standards Development! 4.GSMP Wins Gets Improved Standards Development!

18 ©2008 GS1 Lets Think Out of the … (You Know What)