Aligndata Volume 2-3
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Dot Foods Signs with 1SYNC and Aligntrac for Data Synchronization |
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At the IFDA Distribution Solutions Conference, Dot Foods, the largest food redistributor in the United States, announced that it has entered into a technology agreement with 1SYNC - the GS1 US data pool - and Aligntrac Solutions following a recently completed pilot.
Aligntrac and 1SYNC provide leading solutions for GS1 standards in data exchange among businesses, enabling them to upgrade the accuracy and availability of product information throughout the supply chain. .... continued
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Foodservice Industry Adopts Data Synchronization |
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Over the summer a group of foodservice distributors, manufacturers and restaurant operators gathered together to discuss the adoption of GS1 standards for product identification, location identification and data synchronization. A collection of 55 founding members of the GS1 Foodservice Initiative created a voluntary road map for the adoption of standards in the foodservice industry and a governance and working group to guide the implementation and ensure that foodservice business requirements are addressed by the standards.
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Foodservice Leveraging Manufacturer Data Sync |
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The foodservice initiative for data synchronization is good news for those who supply foodservice. With this initiative, manufacturers who have already implemented data synchronization for their retail partners will be able to leverage data sync for their foodservice trading partners. Previously, manufacturers may have been challenged by duplicate costs and effort to support multiple proprietary connections for each of their major foodservice distributors. |
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Sync/PDI for Distributors/Retailers – Advanced Edition |
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Aligntrac is pleased to announce a solution that allows larger distributors and retailers to accelerate their implementation of data synchronization. The solution incorporates a Supplier GDSN Portal that automates supplier roll-out, initial synchronization and capture of proprietary fields not yet available via GDSN. |
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Sync/PDI Features for Foodservice Manufacturers |
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Aligntrac is pleased to announce new features in Sync/PDI: support for the Foodservice Phase One data attributes including special capabilities for manufacturers supplying Dot Foods; and a mass update feature which allows Sync/PDI users to easily add the new foodservice fields to their existing catalogue data. |
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Getting Ready for Foodservice |
So you have heard about the foodservice initiative, but what does it mean to your existing data sync activities? Well the good news is that your existing experience with data sync will leave you in good shape and very likely you will be able to discontinue some “one-off” solutions that you may have had to do for individual foodservice distributors.
From our work in the foodservice GDSN pilot, Aligntrac saw that there were three areas that all of the participating manufacturers had to focus on:
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