Paula Giovannetti

Summary of Accomplishments:

Voting Member - EAN.UCC Physical Technical Requirements Group.  A committee of twenty-four, establishing global Automatic Identification Data Capture specifications including RFID, EPC, and GTIN (2002 - present). Director of EC for the Industrial Supply Association (2003 - present) Participant - EPC Technical Development Team (2004 - present) Teach Bar Code 101 and RFID at Gateway Technical College (2003 - present) Teach an AIDC Supply Chain Lab for Ohio University's Automatic Identification and Data Capture Technical Institute (2003 - present) Standards Liaison for the Vendor Compliance Federation (2003 - present) Give RFID and EC tutorials for the U.S. Army Tank, Automotive and Armament Command's EC User Group (1999 - present) Participant EAN.UCC XRG - EDI standards for North America UCC and VICS EDI / XML standards work, with an excellent personal and professional relationship with the EC directors of virtually every major retailer in the U.S., plus many of the consumer goods manufacturers and grocers (1991 - present) Created this web site with FrontPage 2003 Vice-President, Electronic Commerce, Arrow Products (1989 - 2003) Implemented Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), including writing maps, guidelines, documentation; select and install EDI translators and mappers; select VAN’s and integrate with company applications; Created an EDI service bureau used by more than 3,000 companies in retail, grocery, healthcare, government and industrial/commercial Created new functionality for existing ANSI X12 EDI transaction sets:  824 Application Advice; 850 Purchase Order and 810 Invoice for Direct to Consumer applications Selected and integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Warehouse Management systems (WMS) Documented vendor compliance requirements for retail customers Created and deployed strategies to avoid non-compliance charges Wrote Vendor Compliance manuals, Shipping and Packaging Guides and EDI Implementation Guides Integrated Automatic Data Capture (bar codes, product ID, bin locators) for the company Re-engineered the company’s receiving system to save space, time and labor dollars, plus improve accuracy Trained staff on EDI, UPC’s, and e-mail usage Wrote the corporate web site using html, FrontPage and PhotoDraw Created and managed a web site to sell sewing machine cabinets (www.arealstitch.com) Committee Work and Affiliations: EAN.UCC Physical Technical Requirements Group.  Determine global Automatic Data Capture standards for bar codes, RFID, EPC, trade item identification, smart chips, etc.  (2001 - present) Participant - EAN.UCC XRG.  Maintain X12 EDI Guidelines for the North American retail, grocery and industrial/commercial industries. VICS Standards Maintenance Committee – An 18 member committee that determined EDI standards for the retail industry in the U.S.  Other members included representatives from Nordstrom, Wal-Mart, Sears, JCPenney, Levi Strauss, Nike, and Estee Lauder.  (1997-2001) Chairman of the following UCC Committees:  856 Ship Notice Guideline; Not-for-Resale EDI Invoices; EDI Business Examples; Simple EDI; Small Vendor Task Group Secretary of the ANSI X12 – Serial Shipping Container Label Member:  VICS Direct To Consumer Committee; Advisory Board PC Expo in New York; Gateway Technical College PC Curriculum Committee; University of Wisconsin - Whitewater  EC Focus Group Founding Board Member, Wisconsin eBusiness Forum Advisory Council, Global Business Resource Center - UW Whitewater and the U.S. Department of Education Strengths: Teaching - I enjoy teaching people how and why things work.  I am good at putting technical terms and concepts in “plain English”.  It is very rewarding when a business professional comes up after a presentation to say “Thank you.  I’ve heard that explained many times and this is the first time I really understood it.”  Employees today are surrounded by EC tools, yet often lack the training and understanding to use them effectively. Problem Solving - Streamline, combine, simplify, free up bottle necks - and the answer is not always automation.  Sometimes there are common sense changes that can be made.  There are ways to validate, audit, and trap errors in a process so you can do it once, right, instead of twice, just in case.   Presentations, Tutorials and Workshops More than one hundred EDI and EC presentations since 1992.  Speaker ratings are consistently in the top 10% for the conference.  Positive comments include the ability to explain highly technical topics in a down-to-earth manner, using real life examples, humor and a practical business perspective. EC Workshops / Tutorials:     RFID / EPC Standards Developments - UW Madison eBusiness         Consortium (2004)     New England EC User Group - Bar Code and RFID Tutorial (2004)     RFID Basics - Wisconsin eBusiness Forum (2003)     Bar Code 101 & RFID - Gateway Technical College (2003)     AIDC Supply Chain Applications - Ohio University (2003, 2004)     EC 101 & 201 – EC World (1997-2001)     EDI Tutorial – Cole Taylor Banks     XML – Greater Chicago EC Forum     EC Technology Review – PCExpo in New York and Chicago     Supply Chain Management Trends – B2B Conference     EDI and Small Business – EDI Council of Canada Forum     EDI Business Decisions for Sr. Management – EC World     From EDI to XML - Wisconsin eBusiness Forum Presentations:     GTIN & Product ID for Sunrise 2005 - Vendor Compliance Federation     EC Summit 2002 - Industrial Supply Manufacturers Association     RFID & EPC  - Twin Cities EC Forum; New England EC User Group;          the Association for IT Professionals EC SIG (2003-2004)     Bar Code 101 and RFID - U.S. Army TACOM EC User Group 2004     EC and the Small Company – Financial EC Conference     EDI the Future is Now – ACH Corporate Electronic Payments Conf.     EDI – What It Can and Can Not Do – Nat’l Assoc. Of Educational Buyers     EDI and the Little Guy – Washington University, St. Louis     Proactive EDI – Bar Code/EDI User Group     EDI in the Retail Industry – Scan-Tech     Back Office EC – UCC User Group     The Future of EC – UCC User Group     EDI for the SME – U.S. Army TACOM     EDI Case Study (1992-2001): ID Expo, Scan Tech, Association of PC Users, EDI User Groups in St. Louis, Chicago, Seattle, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Omaha, and Vancouver   Awards: 1994 - Uniform Code Council's Achievement Award for Outstanding EDI Industry Contributions:  "As a result of her professionalism, dedication and integrity...this award publicly recognizes her involvement and commitment to the Voluntary Inter-Industry Communications Standards EDI Community." 2001 - UCC Outstanding Service Recognition: for VICS EDI Standards Maintenance Committee work.   Publications: Contributing Editor: The Compliance Advocate Packaging World ISMA On-Line EDI World The Journal of Electronic Commerce EC World  Published Articles / Interviews: Industrial Distribution Datamation PC Today CIO EDI News