| Ean India CEO Ravi Mathur said, "Organised retailing
in India is still at a nascent stage when compared to developed countries
in terms of adoption of International best practices and International
standards in their supply chains. One key area relates to the use
of internationally accepted Ean UCC barcode standards for unique and
universal identification of products and consignments in the supply
chain. Coupled with this is the need for aligning of information on
new product introductions, price changes and returnables among suppliers
and buyers to reduce errors in ordering, dispatching, and invoicing."
Foodworld Supermarkets VP K. Radhakrishnan said, "Foodworld
expects to save over four million rupees in just direct labeling
costs by switching to scanning of EAN barcodes on all consumer products.
Besides this, it will facilitate collaborate demand forecasting,
consumption based production scheduling and replenishment by our
suppliers benefiting all of us. It will not be long before retailers
make bar-coding mandatory for their business."
Trinethra Super Retail MD, K. Anjaneyulu said, "Standardising
our supply chain with our suppliers will help us respond faster
to any fluctuation in demand, and help us innovate and meet a very
high service level, besides enabling efficient monitoring of stocks
at retail outlets and warehouses"
Nilgiris Franchise Division, Managing Director C. Gopalakrishnan,
added, "Nilgiris is on the verge of spreading itself all over
the country very soon. Thus it makes good sense for us to mandate
a consistent product identification standard for all our products
to enable data sharing among our outlets."
Besides domestic items, retailers are increasingly stocking imported
merchandise, which are already marked with Ean/UPC barcodes. Over
five billion EAN barcodes are scanned each day at point of sale
counters across the world, making them the de-facto global standards
in Retail.
Indian exporters to international retailers like Wal-Mart, Target,
Home-Depot etc. have been incorporating Ean/UPC barcodes since long
based on their directives.
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