GCI Newsletter January 2007

GCI Newsletter January 2007

A very happy New Year to you and your families and our best wishes!

Welcome to the latest news from the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI)

We want to invite you to:
- join our new GCI Working Groups on "Information Sharing" and "The Future Supply Chain";
- learn about the benefits of Supply Chain Integration Upstream with the GUSI Business Case;
- receive your personal copy of the GCI "2016 - The Future Value Chain" Report and
- to join us at one of the upcoming industry events, where GCI will be present!

New GCI Projects - Call for Nominations!

In our recently published GCI "2016 Future Value Chain" report, we have clearly identified a Call-to-Action, which requires the industry to step up and address three identified challenges:

1. The industry should Develop New Ways of Working Together - including sustainable changes in culture, collaborative business planning and new measures and rewards.
2. The industry should more readily and freely Share Information, embracing the concept that the best way to manage increasing complexity is through transparency.
3. The industry should redefine the 2016 Supply Chain, addressing new requirements of the physical flow of goods, driven by forces like volatile energy costs and a growing population density.

At its most recent meeting, the GCI Executive Board has decided to set up projects in these three areas to help shape the future. A Call for Nominations has been shared with the Board and you are also kindly invited to join the group efforts.

To view the project proposals, please click to GCI Projects Information Sharing or Future Supply Chain or visit our GCI Website directly http://www.gci-net.org/.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Sabine Ritter at sabine.ritter@gci-net.org

GCI GUSI Business Case Document Available For Download!

Discover why GUSI delivers up to 75% reduction in the time taken to connect to new partners, reduces IT costs, and much more.

The Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) and its Global Upstream Supply Initiative (GUSI) Working Group produced the GCI GUSI Business Case Document (please click here to be directly linked) to publicise the benefits of GUSI and Upstream Integration Model (UIM) (please click here to be directly linked), so as to encourage more companies to adopt the UIM and thereby amplify the benefits to be derived by everyone.

Learn why GUSI is a multiplier for collaboration benefits and get to know key success factors, identified by the GUSI members, that are required to successfully implement collaborative supply chain management! The document includes some case studies which summarise the benefits derived as a result of adopting the UIM, and also describes how the GUSI members intend to leverage their investment by connecting to more trading partners.

More than 30 participants in the GUSI initiative have now moved beyond the pilot phase and are into an aggressive roll-out phase, thereby taking advantage of the scalability provided by GUSI.

The GUSI Business Case is available free of charge. The next GCI GUSI Group Meetings are scheduled for:
- GCI GUSI Implementation Team / 25 January 2007, Paris
- GCI GUSI Working Group / 6 March 2007, Las Vegas
For further information about our GCI GUSI Project please click here.

GCI "2016 Future Value Chain" Report - printed copies available!

Following its recent publication (see GCI Newsletter October 2006, please click here), the GCI report on "2016 - The Future Value Chain", jointly published with Capgemini and Intel, explores a comprehensive, "connected" view of trends and identifies key areas where we believe companies must collaborate in order to manage the value chain in 2016. The GCI Co-Chairmen, A.G. Lafley, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of The Procter & Gamble Company, and José Luis Duran, Chairman of the Management Board of Carrefour, consider this a key document to encourage debate on the forces and trends that will shape our future and our ability to better serve our consumers.

Besides accessing the document on our website (please click here), we are very pleased to be able now to offer you free printed copies of the report. Please do send us an email with your postal address and how many copies you wish to receive (susanne.fischer@gci-net.org). We hope you will share it internally within your company and with your management and continue the discussion we started at our GCI Executive Board meeting.

If you want to share your comments about the report, please click here to enter the forum.

GCI at upcoming conferences:

GCI will be present at a number of industry events in the upcoming weeks and months. Please note the following events:

- Visit our GCI Booth at the GS1 Global Forum 13 February 2007 in Brussels; www.gs1.org

- Watch out for the Global Upstream Session by the GUSI Co-Chairmen at the Logicon US, 5- 8 March 2007 in Las Vegas; http://www.wbresearch.com/logiconusa/agenda.asp

- Together on a public platform for the first time since the report was launched, José Luis Duran, Carrefour, and A.G. Lafley, P&G, will share in the opening plenary of the ECR Europe Conference in Milan on 8 May 2007 their passion for the consumer and the unprecedented need for much deeper collaboration across the industry. http://www.ecreuropeforum.net

Very much looking forward to seeing you there!
Thank you for your interest and support!

GCI is the single unifying force that brings manufacturers, suppliers and retailers together on a worldwide parity basis to simplify global commerce and improve consumer value in the overall retail supply chain.

The mission of the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) is to lead global value chain collaboration through the identification of business needs and the implementation of best practices and standards to serve consumers better, faster and at less cost.