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Cloud, are free, and non- proprietary, makes the tools accessible and highly useful.
“Big company or small company, they can use these tools to get the right labels on their products and get them into retailers.”
Maria Palazzolo, executive director and chief executive officer of GS1 Australia, concurs.
“GS1 Australia appreciates the extra tools and solutions that our solution provider partners are making available to our members.
“Tools such as Matthews’
Barcode Learning Centre are a valuable resource for businesses looking to implement the GS1 system of standards to improve their supply chains,” Palazzolo says.
LARGE FOOTPRINT
Dingley notes the work Matthews has done is reaching more and more businesses.
“In recent years, along with our ongoing strategic partnership with GS1, we are also becoming more involved with the Australian Food &
Matthews CEO Mark Dingley at the 2022 APPMA Awards of Excellence at AUSPACK.
Grocery Council, and more recently, the Produce Marketing Association.
“We’ve seen some great success stories from businesses in our partnerships with these industry bodies.”
To date, Dingley says that the full range of iDSnet product suite is now used in more than 2,000 production lines nationwide.
“It’s an impressive number, but what’s really pleasing about it is that it shows that the software helps businesses. During the height of the
pandemic, food and beverage businesses that implemented the iDSnet package code management software clearly saw its benefits.
“In fact, since the beginning of the pandemic, sign-up numbers to register for iDSnet Cloud have increased substantially. With the sudden focus of a strong, self-sufficient domestic supply chain being so important, we’re very pleased that iDSnet Cloud was part of facilitating that supply-chain resilience – particularly at a time when food and beverage logistics were critical for the nation.
“That digital connection was a bright spot, and we feel very pleased to see how iDSnet did its part in helping keep the food and beverage industry running with our digital technologies.”
INDUSTRY DIFFERENCE
In line with making
strategic partnerships that benefit the industry, at AUSPACK 2022 Matthews announced a farm-to-fork traceability partnership with FreshChain Systems.
“This strategic partnership combines the strength of Matthews’ best-in-class, on-demand printing and labelling solutions, with FreshChain’s Australian-owned and recognised digital end-to- end fresh food traceability and provenance platform.”
For Dingley, it’s another step towards meeting Matthews’ aim as a company to be part of improving Australia’s manufacturing industry as a whole.
“Whether that’s through
our free industry tools of iDSnet Cloud and the Barcode Learning Centres, or our strategic alliance with GS1 Australia, or our partnerships with the AFGC and PMA, or the strategic partnerships with FreshChain Systems, they’re all towards the one purpose: helping the industry improve their coding and labelling
and ultimately traceability solutions, and, therefore,
being part of the solution that’s strengthening the Australian manufacturing economy.” ✷
COVER STORY
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