retailer becomes e-tailer jan somers

Jan Somers – CEO GS1 Belgium & Luxembourg

RETAILER becomes e-TAILER why eCommerce accelerates the need

for trustworthy product data

Every great Company has a great Story

Business requires a common language,

we make that possible

THE GLOBAL LANGUAGE

OF BUSINESS

GLOBAL

=

LOCAL

THE ONLINE LANDSCAPE…

CONSUMERS WANT

MORE, BETTER & FASTER INFO

- beyond the label -

NOT LIMITED TO FOOD…

Google Shopping

TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS

CONSUMERS TO GET THIS

INFORMATION ANYWHERE, ANYTIME

“ e-TAILERS ARE IN NEED OF A

DIFFERENT & COMPLETE DATA SET ”

+

…

“ GOOD & COMPLETE DATA IS

THE CRITICAL ASSET FOR E- COMMERCE & TO PLEASE CONSUMERS ”

The DATA EXCHANGE challenge

The DATA QUALITY challenge

Imagine entering her phone number incorrectly

Good data quality leads to…

…a happy CFO

…a happy sales & marketing director

…a happy purchasing director

…a happy supply chain manager

…a happy store manager

…a happy customer

KEY take-away’s

Everything starts with good unique

product identification: offline & online

The need to share data is more

pressing than ever before

Good & complete data is the critical

asset for eCommerce & to please

consumers

Good quality data has an effect on

all processes of the value chain

“ The winners of TOMORROW are the

ones understanding the online landscape,

the data exchange & the data quality

challenge TODAY ”

Jan Somers

jsomers@gs1belu.org

+32 (0)2 229 18 90