Benefits

The use of global standards for numbering, bar coding and eMessaging offers benefits to all parties in the red meat industry supply chain, including;

For ALL trading partners;

• The ability to identify goods and shipments quickly and accurately.
• Track forward and trace back of products.
• Faster delivery of goods.
• Fewer handling and shipping errors.
• Better inventory management and reduced inventory holdings.
• Reduction of order and replenishment times.

For domestic processing;

• Including slaughter, boning, cold store, value adding, retail ready, by-product/co-products.
• The ability to identify carcases, cartons, bulk packs, pallets and shipments quickly and accurately.
• Compliance with customer (retail or export) requirements for bar coding.
• Track forward and trace back from slaughter to retail shelf.
• Integration with the National Livestock Identification Scheme (NLIS)
• eMessaging ability for the NVD Waybill and Meat Transfer Certificates

For livestock production:

• Including breeding, backgrounding and finishing.
• The ability to identify livestock (mobs and individual) and consignments quickly and accurately (NLIS).
• Electronic NVD and Waybill (e-DEC) and other regulatory and market access forms.
• Producer feedback matched to properties, mob and individual animals.