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As the Hardware Industry in New Zealand seeks to adopt the key principles of Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), there is increased demand for improved data capture at all points of the supply chain. Achieving efficiency in the management of the supply chain relies on having fast, accurate and timely information about production, distribution and consumption.  GS1 New Zealand is working with both retailers and suppliers in the Hardware sector to drive best practice principles across the entire sector. Adoption of GS1 solutions should bring improved business efficiency and effectiveness for all companies within the supply chain.

Industry Initiatives

Hardware GS1 Action Group (HGAG)
Pooling the knowledge and experiences of the Australian and New Zealand Hardware industry participants, and following the lead of other global hardware initiatives, the Hardware GS1 Action Group has been set up to help develop, promote and deliver user guidelines, training courses and implementation programmes relating to the global GS1 standards.

HGIG will be overseen by a representative leadership group (Steering Committee) made up of key retailers and suppliers across Australia and New Zealand. The current list of confirmed participants includes Mitre 10 Australia, Bunnings, BOC, Reece, Natbuild, John Danks, Placemakers, ITM, Mitre 10 NZ, 3M, Nylex, Orica, GWA, ITW-Proline, Saint-Gobain Abrasives and Carter Holt Harvey.

The Steering Committee has appointed Andrew Price, from Mitre 10 Australia, to chair the group and Patrice Chan-Yam, from Orica, as Deputy Chair and meets six times a year.

Download a copy of the Group Charter Document

The following work groups have been set up:

  • Numbering and barcoding - to oversee issues related to retail, non-retail and logistical unit identification and tracking. The group is chaired by Error Kennedy, from John Danks.
  • Data Synchronisation - to lead the trailing and implementation of data synchronisation via GS1net. The group is chaired by Graham Loosely, from Saint-Gobain Abrasives.
  • eMessaging - to continue the maintenance of GS1 EANCOM® guidelines, and oversee industry adoption of GS1 XML messaging. This group is chaired by Matt Smith, from Bunnings.

Future workgroups are expected to oversee industry adoption of RFID, Global Location Numbering and development of industry specific case studies.

Participation in any of the work groups is open to any organisation. Please forward any queries to John Szabo at GS1 Australia.

Hardware Industry Working Group (HIWG)
The HIWG is a community of organisations committed to the development and implementation of industry agreed B2B (business-to-business) e-Commerce guidelines and recommendations. It is a self-managed and self-funded consortium and includes members from a range of organisations across Australia and New Zealand including retailers, distributors, wholesalers and suppliers from the broad hardware industry - including the electrical, greenlife (garden), plumbing, timber and home building sectors.

All outcomes of the work done by the HIWG are made available to others in the industry from the HIWG website.

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