A number of standard-setting organizations offer memberships to business firms. You are working for Grace Henry, chief information officer (CIO) of Flex-Electric, a midsize company that manufactures components for electronic medical and laboratory
instruments. Flex-Electric uses EDI to process transactions with both its vendors (purchases) and customers (sales). The company is also exploring ways in which it might use RFID tags to track its inventories. Grace asks you to learn more about the international supply chain standard setting organization, GS1. Prepare a memo to Grace of about 300 words in which you outline the purposes of the organization and identify how it might be useful to Flex-Electric. In your memo, identify at least one other standard-setting organization that might be useful to Flex-Electric’s RFID tag initiative.
Areas in which the organization is active include:
- GS1 BarCode: GS1builds and maintains barcode standards.
- GS1 DataBar: The new version of the GS1 BarCode
- GS1 Healthcare group: Brings together hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and transporter
- Counterfeiting: Work has begun on an early warning system to prevent the public from coming into contact with counterfeit medical product
- Food safety: GS1 standards make traceability systems possible, on a global scale.
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What will be an ideal response?