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9.30am Registration
and Coffee 10:00 Welcome Martin
Fincham, LANSA 10:15 Snapshot of the UK GDS Market Tom
Beston, GS1 UK 11:00 Break 11:20 Retailer
Status Update What’s
coming in 2012? Lorraine
Knight, SA2 Worldsync 11.50 Supplier On-Board Success - Pernod Ricard - COTY Randy
Mercer, LANSA 12:30pm Lunch 1:15 The
importance of Data Quality Chris
Hughes, 1SYNC 2:00 Master
Data Management Randy
Mercer, LANSA 2.45 Break 3:05 How
to Get On-Board? Randy
Mercer, LANSA 4:00 Closing
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Aimed at manufacturers, retailers, distributors, food service providers and healthcare organisations, this seminar is not to be missed. Both Sainsbury's and Tesco have announced that they are pursuing GDS strategies and plan to on-board suppliers in phases. Other active organisations include Ahold, Brakes, Boots, Mitchells and Butlers, Makro, Tradeteam and World Duty Free. The agenda is packed with industry experts from from all corners of the GDS world, including GS1 UK, 1SYNC, SA2 WorldSync and LANSA. Speakers ![]() Tom Beston, TrueSource Programme Mgr at GS1 UK
Tom is responsible for the status, delivery and success of Global Data Synchronisation and Master Data Management projects in the UK. He heads up the TrueSource data quality service that enables brand owners to enter, manage and store their product data ahead of publishing direct to trading partners via GDSN. Prior to joining GS1, Tom worked in a marketing capacity for a number of B2B and B2C global technology brands.
Lorraine Knight, Director W. Europe, SA2 WorldSync Lorraine is responsible for global data sync strategies, regional sales, solution implementation and key account management. Lorraine joined SA2 Worldsync after the company was formed out of the merger of Agentrics and Sinfos gmbH where she managed business development and customer implementations in Europe for the global data synchronization business unit since 2002. Chris Hughes, 1SYNC Global Support Manager Chris has worked in the data synchronisation business since May 2003 with 1SYNC. His primary focus has been on Implementation of GDS within the world's top 50 global suppliers and retailers. 1SYNC was established from the consolidation of Transora and UCCnet in August
2005. The strengths of both organisations have been combined to offer a
cost-effective Data Pool with solutions and services that support user
needs and make implementation easier.
Randy Mercer, GDS Product Specialist, LANSA Randy joined LANSA over ten years ago and led the initial development and many initial implementations of LANSA’s Global Data Synchronisation solution - LANSA Data Sync Direct. Today Randy is a Solutions specialist at LANSA and industry authority on the topic of global data synchronisation.
The Benefits of GDS The statistics speak for themselves: In the past 3 months alone 600,000 new GTINs have been registered on the network and there are now nearly 20,000 companies world-wide participating in GDS.
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