A Sampling of the Topics Available for your Team

Bar Codes: The Fundamental Link in e-Fulfillment
Business is all about linking. We must link products to orders and orders to shipments and shipments to payments. This presentation serves as a foundation for those who will be using bar codes in distribution warehouses. It examines the basic transactions that both cause and result from material flow. It also explains how bar codes are used to identify each different product and how bar codes are also used to link a container moving throughout a supply chain to the database controlling them.

Make and Receive Electronic Payments The Simple Way
If you have been wondering how companies can increase sales volume without increasing overhead at the same rate, this presentation is for you. Companies who want to drive down the costs related to making payments and receiving payment will find this class of interest. And if your company is trying to attract and hold customers you will find how these capabilities can even spell increased sales volume. Most people think of electronic funds transfer (EFT) as something very complex and difficult to implement. This is no longer the case.

Supply Chain Management: Concepts and Terminology
Using layman’s terms and explaining acronyms, the presentation explains supply chain management (SCM) and the computer systems that deliver it. Students will learn what SCM systems are, what they are not, what benefits they provide and how they work. These are the systems that facilitate trading partner collaboration based on 100% accurate information contained in bar codes and passed via e-commerce. Students will learn why the SCM concept holds so much promise for many companies and why it is becoming a must for company survival.

Implementation Training for the e-Fulfillment Team: Where to Begin Your Project

This presentation deals with the implementation of systems that involve e-Commerce transactions that include order placement, item shipment and the payment process. It is understood that e-Business concepts are related to these activities but the main thrust of the course is on systems that deal with the transactions that cause and result from the movement of goods through the supply chain. Although these systems are identified, the emphasis is on the steps to define, design, develop and deploy them.

Channel Integration: Where EDI and Bar Code Fit Together
Bar code and EDI go hand in hand. Although they can be implemented separately, their benefits can be maximized by integrating the two technologies. Major topics covered in this session include: The Flow of Information & Goods; Where Things Go Wrong; Costs and Benefits to Everyone in the Channel; Industry Adoption.

Compliance Labeling ... How to do It
Compliance labeling is part of a nationwide trend to adopt three well-proven communications technologies. (1) For a standard numbering system, many industries use the U.P.C. (Universal Product Code) standard numbering system. (2) Bar code to reduce errors, cost and time to enter transactional data. (3) EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) to permit direct, application to application exchange of business data via computer. Based on the book with the same title, this session will address the following: Understanding What Standards Apply; How to Handle Label Requests; Conforming to Standards; Non-conformance to Standards; Developing a Corporate Policy; System Considerations; Product Identification; Shipping Label.

Vendor Bar Code Labeling: How to Get Your Suppliers to Label for You
One of the greatest aspects of bar coding is the fact that one bar code can be used by everyone in the entire distribution channel. That's why it has to start at the beginning. Convincing your suppliers to label their products with bar codes, however, can be challenging. This session will cover the following: Explaining What You Want & Why; Developing a Corporate Policy for Inbound & Outbound Shipments; What Should Be Contained in It; Who Should Help Write It; How to Ensure that Your Requests are Understood and Followed; How to Follow up.

Standards -- UCC & IBCA Related Bar Code Guidelines
If you are going to implement a bar code system, you need to be familiar with the bar code standards you are going to use. One of the most widely used standards in place today is the U.P.C., administered by the Uniform Code Council (UCC). The IBCA Bar Code Guidelines, based on the UCC system, are closely related. This presentation will introduce and present these guidelines, including the following: Item Marking; Product Identification Numbers; Shipment Labels: ANSI MH10.8; Quality: ANSI 3.182; Label Compliance;