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Pierre Heymann, Dir. Partner [email protected]

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Labeling, a Vital Imperative

Best Practices and 2016 Industry Trends

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Agenda

• Introduction

• A Brief History of Labeling

• The 2016 Top Five Trends

• Best Practices in Labeling

• Supplier Labeling

• Key Takeaways to Remember

• Questions and Answers


Why is Labeling Important?

• A Supply Chain imperative

• Is becoming increasingly

more complex

• Is constantly evolving

• Your products passport

through the supply chain


Global Leader in Enterprise labeling

• Global Leader in Enterprise Labeling

• 5,000 customers in 100+ countries

• Global Sales and Support

– Loftware, USA

– Loftware GmbH, Germany

– Loftware Asia Pacific Ltd., Singapore

• 29 Years Of Labeling Expertise


Over 5,000 Customers Across 25+ Industries

AEROSPACE & DEFENSE AUTOMOTIVE BIOTECHNOLOGY CHEMICALS COMPUTER SW/HW

CONSUMER PRODUCTS ELECTRONICS FOOD & BEVERAGE MANUFACTURING/INDUSTRIAL MEDICAL DEVICES

PHARMACEUTICALS RETAIL/MAIL ORDER/ECOMMERCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRANSPORTATION/LOGISTICS UTILITIES ENERGY


A Brief History of Labeling


Evolving Global Regulations Impact Labeling

• Labels are becoming more regulated

• GS1 Standards

• Global Harmonized Systems (GHS)

• Unique Device Identification (UDI)

• Drug Quality & Security Act / Drug Supply

• Chain Security Act (DQSA/DSCSA)

• EU1169 (European Union directive)

• Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)

• Companies face fines and struggle to enter new

markets

• Consumer safety and traceability are vital


Anatomy of a Label


• Surveyed over 600 respondents

• Across all major industries & regions

of the globe

• Only respondents involved or

responsible for labeling

• Wide range of Departments

– IT

– Operations

– Supply Chain

– Warehousing/Distribution

– Manufacturing

– Regulatory & Compliance

Where did the 5 Trends Come From?


Demand for Color Labeling is Increasing

• Enable regulatory compliance

• Meet customer branding and

use requirements

• Eliminate the need for pre-

printed label stock


Labeling is Everyone’s Concern

• More groups involved in labeling

– IT

– Marketing

– Regulatory

– Production

• Labeling is being viewed as a

global initiative

• Increasing labeling regulations &

customer requirements


Customer Specific Requirements Continue

• Meeting unique and variable

labeling requirements

• Providing the flexibility to create

and update labels

• Enabling rapid label change and

customer responsiveness


Data-Driven Labeling is Imperative for Regulations

• Regulations continue to

expand rapidly

• Regulations require constant

change

• Regional impacts of global

regulations


Emerging Deployment Platforms Impact Labeling

• Centralizing global labeling

efforts

• Emerging hybrid deployment

models

• Technology’s impact on labeling

deployment


What are the Top 5 Trends?

Demand for Color Labeling is

Increasing

Labeling is Everyone’s

Concern

Customer Specific Label Requirements

Continue to Grow

Data-Driven Labeling is

Imperative for Global

Regulations

Emerging Deployment

Platforms Impact Labeling

LABELING BEST

PRACTICES


•Companies often have multiple labeling solutions

•The same templates are maintained and duplicated in several systems

•Design skills and work are duplicated

•Very little control on content and versions

• Improve efficiencies

• Improve consistencies

• Improve control

•Reduce risks and fines due to mislabeling

The Problem The Benefits

Centralize Labeling


•Many companies still use on demand labeling methods

• Trigger labels from labeling

software

• Retrieve data from Database

of Excel spreadsheets

•Too many data fields are still entered manually

•User trigger labels from the ERP/WMS/MES application they are working with

• No other interface to use

•Automate processes

•Reduce risks


Trigger Labeling from your ERP or Applications


•Many companies still struggle with data maintained in multiple systems

• Databases or Excel

•Data is not always up to date and may be out of synch

•Operator still have to rely on manual processes

• Improve labeling accuracy

• Improve processes

•Reduce risks (mislabeling)


Your label accuracy is only as good as your data

Maintain a Single Source of Truth for your Data


•Labeling is a mission critical application and if down, stops your entire operation

•You have a DEV, TEST, PROD, and maybe a DR environment for your ERP

•But you only have a PROD environment for labeling

• If labeling is down, your whole

production is down

•A non-production environment allows you to test templates, printers, and versions without impacting production

•A Standby server protects you in case the production server fails

•A DR servers protects you in case your entire operation is down


How long can you afford to be down?

What is you backup plan?

Mirror your Labeling and Application Environments


• Many companies do not take advantage of the label versioning capability

• Who, when and why a label

template was changed is not

tracked

• Cannot easily roll back to a

previous version

• Companies do not use the label promotion capability

• No control on who approves and

moves a new label to production

• Provides more control of the labeling change process

• Allows customers to easily roll back to a previous label version

• Reduces risks


What is your label change process?

Who has the Authority to approve a template change?

Use Label Versioning and Promotion Process


•Companies have created hundreds, sometimes thousands of label templates, often with minor differences

•Designers fail to make the templates data-driven

•Label template maintenance has become out of control

• No one knows which

templates or images are still

used

• Reduce the number of templates

• Reduce maintenance costs

• Speed up the process to bring on board new customers

• Reduce risks


A Loftware customer has reduced the number of

templates from over 1,000 to less than 30

Standardize Label Templates and Make them Data Driven


•Many companies have to re-label products when they come in the warehouse

• It is difficult to force suppliers to use your label standard

• Label templates change over

time

• Some data must comes from

own ERP

•You need to control which templates each supplier has access to

•Avoid relabeling

•Streamline processes and reduce costs

•Speed up put away and reduce inventory

•Forge a stronger relationship with suppliers


Extend Labeling to your Suppliers

SUPPLIER LABELING


• Browser WYSIWYG Designer

• Universal Templates – Printer

Agnostic

• Version Control

• View Live Data in Design

• Design Preview

• Text Box (Size-to-fit/alignment)

• Fixed and Variable Graphics

and Text

• Form Controls – radios, buttons,

dropdowns, and checkboxes

• Page Layouts

• Label-level Logic

• Unicode Compliant

• Color Support

• RBAC User Security

Introduction to Loftware Spectrum


Adding Intelligence to On-demand Printing

• Browser based printing

• User, device, and label level

Security

• Customizable, intelligent forms

• Business logic driven printing

• Support for multiple languages

• Print Preview

• Remote Print Agent enables

printing by suppliers & partners

• Multiple output destinations

• Application Architect


EnterpriseLabeling Solution

Integration with QAD

Rapid label Change

High Performance

Centralized Solution

Global Solution

Extend Labeling to Suppliers

Key Takeaways to Remember

• Labeling is mission critical

You cannot afford to be down

• Improve efficiencies & reduce

cost across an organization

• Meet customer requirements

faster and more efficiently

• Manage complexities & enables

consistency

• Enable brand & regulatory

compliance

• “Linking Labeling with Business Processes” - Learn how to automate and streamline labeling

• “Bring Order to Complexity” - Discover how to meet customer labeling demands faster than ever

• “Following the Rules” - Find out how to comply with evolving regulations across industries and regions

• “Turning Up the Volume” - See how to scale globally to support changing business needs

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