The Inovis UK Blog

John Kearns - Alliance Development Manager at Inovis – shares his thoughts

For those interested in our alliance and association relationships, BASDA, standing for Business Application Software Developers’ Association of which we are a member and bares no relation to the Buena Vista Dancing and Fishing Club! met recently to set up a special interest group (SIG) for Logistics. After much deliberation we settled on the common stock keeping unit (sku) its place in our world and its impact on business.

Globalisation of information across trading communities continues to be the holy grail of efficiency and with everything carrying a size ten carbon footprint maybe we should look at how to make the sku a little friendlier. The group acknowledged that the common sku is the pivotal link in business solutions everywhere and as such we should focus on its impact in today’s world. After the Chairman, Jairo Rojas called, “would any volunteers’ please take one step forward,” and eight of my group stepped the other way! I was duly elected to the steering committee and we kick off the SIG proper this month followed by the Q3 meeting at the INOVIS UK Head Office. Our initial thoughts surround the importance of how the sku impacts our software development businesses and in turn how we then affect standards, processes and efficiencies worldwide. The first item on our agenda is to design a logo for the group’s edible T shirts.