Using the Melbourne office as a pilot program for their global standardisation goals, Siemens Mobility has implemented Project i-TRACE and GS1 Standards locally in Australia.
Project i-TRACE has helped Siemens increase the traceability of their supply chain end to end, as well as the efficiency and reliability of their internal warehousing.
The Australasian Rail Association (ARA) has been driving an industry initiative in partnership with GS1 Australia to standardise the way objects in the rail industry supply chain are identified and marked.
This will help all stakeholders to effectively identify products, electronically capture information about them and then share that information with relevant parties. The ability to do this at optimal cost relies on open global standards that all parties in the rail industry value chain can leverage.
The objective of this project is to set an industry standard for those organisations who wish to digitise and harmonise their organisations and value chains.
Raphaelle Guerineau, Country CEO of Australia & New Zealand said it is a win-win situation, where it brings benefits to Siemens mobility and also for its customers
Eric Bougeois, head of product & customer service explained the benefits of the program.
“Australia is well known for its fragmented markets with the different states on different standards, that is a perfect opportunity to uniformise the industry and get to a common understanding,” he said.
“Embrace the change, embrace the move to GS1 for the good of the industry.”
“We’ve been successful in reducing the time to transact even though the number of transactions has doubled,” John Phillips, Head of Operations said.
“You can’t have a digital world unless the products are part of the digital footprint, and GS1 enables that tie-in through the systems,” Stephen Baker, head of product innovation & through life support.
