GS1 brings our opinions to the castle

Rasmus Nørgaard

Market Assortment Manager, Dansk Cater

Text:

Karen Gahrn

Photo:

Kasper Løftgaard

How do you use GS1 in your everyday life?

- GS1 helps us comply with legislation that says we must have online information such as nutritional values, ingredient lists and allergens available to the customer for online sales. Then we also have some derived functions, such as data sheets on chemistry, which can also be entered via GS1Trade Sync.

This means that we always have access to the latest data and that we only have to look in one place. Even though we can hear from our very small suppliers that they think it can be a large and confusing system, the vast majority of our 1,100 suppliers are part of GS1. And we can only applaud the principle that suppliers only have to enter data in one place. As a major player in the Danish foodservice market, it is not an option for us not to join, and GS1's system meets all our information needs.

How does the collaboration with GS1 contribute and develop in your company?

- Our industry is not so big that we can 'afford' to have different standards. The fact that we also have the same standards as retail is smart for those who have both foodservice and retail, so they only have to speak in one language.

The alternative would be a huge spreadsheet project where we'd have to have x number of people sitting around, struggling with it and making sure the information is always up to date.

- We get a lot of good ideas from a GS1 working group. Representatives from suppliers and data recipients across industries meet four times a year and hear how other like-minded people deal with challenges, for example around images. We can keep abreast of developments, and we find that GS1 listens and can help bring opinions to Borgen, as we say.