Op donderdag 23 maart aanstaande vindt het Ketenstandaard Congres plaats in Nijkerk. Een event waar bouwprofessionals uit het hele land samenkomen om kennis over digitalisering en standaardisatie op te doen en te delen. SyncForce is aanwezig met een stand op de informatiemarkt. Zien wij u daar? […]

Making the impossible possible: a Digital Product Passport for a circular economy
Many businesses will have to move from a customer-centric business model to a planet-centric model. But what does this mean for your business? Generally speaking, a circular economy cannot be realized without data. So all involved parties in the digital supply chain must get their (product) data organizations organized. In this article: Why do you (and we) need a Product Passport? […]

SyncForce joins CIRPASS to lay the ground for the deployment of European Digital Product Passports
SyncForce joins the CIRPASS consortium, bringing together a core network of leading organisations in building the European vision for a unified Digital Product Passport (DPP) approach across multiple value chains. […]

SyncForce at first ImpactBuying User Day
SyncForce participates in the first ImpactBuying user day on 13 October 2022! This event is for Dutch and Belgian producers and traders, who are using the ImpactBying platform. Join the event and stay connected! […]

“Everyone thought that there was no solution for Signature Foods” – until they came across SyncForce.
Ever since joining Signature Foods, Lars Jansen had wanted to automate the massive flow of product information. But everyone thought that there was no viable solution for Signature Foods – until they came across SyncForce. […]

Join us at the GS1 BelgiLux Forum 2022
Like in previous years, SyncForce sponsors the annual information and networking event, GS1 Belgilux FORUM 2022. This year GS1 BelgiLux FORUM will be about 2D barcodes and the Digital Product Passport. Do you want to know what the future will bring and how SyncForce can support you? Join the event and stay connected! […]

Foodlog: The Goodness Paradox is what happens when we’re forced to choose between sustainability goals
Reducing food waste is a popular way for manufacturers to become more sustainable. One way to achieve that goal is by using packaging for products, which extends their shelf lives. Unfortunately, making more use of plastic can hardly be called ‘sustainable’. This is just one example of the sustainability conflicts that can arise around a single product – labelled the ‘Goodness Paradox’ by SyncForce CEO Hans de Gier, during the Digital Food webinar earlier this year. […]

Managing the Goodness Paradox
Supported by apps and social media, today’s increasingly critical consumers rapidly place new and ever-higher demands on products. Therefore, if companies want to harvest the benefits of implementing their CSR policies, they must provide information-based proof of their achievements. […]

Global Data Model: What you need to know
Operating in the world of GS1 is quite a challenge. Every country has its own rules, where on the other hand consumers also demand more and more information on different subjects. It’s time to simplify. Is your organization ready? Meet the brand new Global Data Model. […]

Partnership Foodbyte and SyncForce to increase data quality
Edgar Koelewijn, Business Information Manager at Bieze Food Group (BFG), is someone whose response falls into the second category. When he realized that new product introductions were at risk of being delayed due to long waiting times at GS1’s Data Management Services (DMS), he thought up a solution: to set up a highly efficient DMS of his own. […]

What is the goodness paradox?
Striving for a better world is not only noble but has also become crucial from an economic perspective. However, companies, industries, and consumers sometimes face a paradox in terms of how they can achieve it. In order to make optimal choices, it is essential that all stakeholders have access to the right information. […]

Successful manufacturers are able to rapidly respond to trends (even during a crisis)
Successful manufacturers manage to keep up with changing customer demand. The coronavirus crisis has made it painfully clear which packaged goods manufacturers are able to respond rapidly to trends and which aren’t. […]

Information is key in the development of sustainable products
Product innovation is often driven by public opinion – but what if one department of a company decides to eliminate palm oil from its processes, for example, while another department works with a supplier that still uses it? It’s essential for all departments to keep one another informed about their development activities. […]

GBIN: The globally unique number to identify brands
GBIN is the globally unique number to identify brands. Why? To enable reliable machine-to-machine communication. This new, global standard for brand identification opens a whole new world of opportunities for data to be shared more efficiently and effectively between your internal systems and with your trade partners. […]

We’ll stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 starting July
Internet Explorer 11 has been outdated for years now. To ensure the best experience for our users, SyncForce needs to move on and decided to drop support for the old Microsoft browser. […]

SyncForce moves to Strijp-T, the innovation ecosystem of Eindhoven
SyncForce is proud to announce that on 24 April 2020 our office will move from Meerenakkerweg to the TQ Building on Achtseweg Zuid. Our new residence is in the heart of Strijp-T, Eindhoven’s breeding ground for design and innovation, where companies such as Van Berlo, CTOUCH and Additive Industries are located. […]

‘Innovation is externally driven, now more than ever’
Large organizations increasingly have the desire to become as agile as start-ups. The answer to this challenge might be an idea that has been around for a few decades: zero-based budgeting & resourcing. […]

The solution for sharing product images via GS1 GDSN
It’s always been a challenge for manufacturers to make sure product images are shared correctly on every external channel. A new level of complexity was recently added: selecting the right file names for images in GS1-GDSN Data Source. […]

Why your enterprise isn’t agile (and how you can fix it)
Large organizations increasingly have the desire to become as agile as start-ups. The answer to this challenge might be an idea that has been around for a few decades: zero-based budgeting & resourcing. […]

Why use value streams to design your system landscape?
Many businesses are facing the same dilemma on a production level that they used to have in sales and finance: should we go best of breed or integrated? Do we use different solutions for every process, or is there one system that covers everything? […]