CROSSED CODE SYSTEM IN MALAYSIA

Maktab Koperasi Malaysia (MKM) has one courses namely branding and packaging courses. For this courses, our participant will learn detail about branding, how to do a packaging, the machine use in packaging and also how to read a bar code. Here, I want to share with you how to read a crossed code  for every product sell in Malaysia. Each product has a unique line number to identify it. Perpalang code consists of black lines punctuated by white space. The number assigned to identify products intended instead to classify or carry detailed information about the product. There are various symbol codes used throughout the world as the European Article Number (EAN), the Uniform Product Code (UPC), Code 39, Codabar, Interleaved Two of Five etc. Malaysia using the EAN system known in Malaysia as Malaysian Product Numbering (MPN) system. I give some tips how to read the crossed code above is like this:-

955 is Country Codes- Supervised by Association Manufacturers Malaysia (FMM)

6074 is Code Product Manufacturer- It is given by FMM to manufacturers food 

10624 is Specific products- 5 different digits given to manufacturers food by FMM

3- is Check Digit- to check the authenticity crossed code

If you want to know from which country the product had been made is based on the country code. The country code as follows;-

Country Crossed Code

Country Code	Name	Country Code	Name
0-9	USA + Canada	73	Sweden
20-29	EAN reserve	75	Mexico
30-37	Perancis	76	Switzerland
40-43	Jerman	77.9	Argentina
45	Rusia	78.9	Brazil
47.1	Taiwan	80-83	Itali
49	Jepun	84	Sepanyol
50	UK + Ireland	85.9	Czechoslovakia
52.0	Cyprus	86.0	Yugoslavia
52.9	Belgium + Luxemburg	86.9	Turki
54	Portugal	87	Belanda
56	Iceland	88.0	Korea Selatan
56.9	Denmark	88.5	Thailand
57	Hungray	88.8	Singapura
59.9	Afrika Selatan	90-91	Austria
60.0-60.1	Finland	93	Australia
64	Norway	94	New Zealand
72.9	Israel	95.9	Papua New Guinea

Picture and Source from our guest speaker, Mr Mohd Arif from MARDI

TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS IN NORWAY

At Holmenkollen

Last August 2013, my company send me and my colleague to Oslo, Norway for the attachment program at Norwegian Cooperative. This is my first time went to European country. The purposes of the attachment program is to learn and share the experiences, knowledge and everything about the cooperative retail industry in Norway. I'm not telling about the program here just i want to share about the transportation system in Norway. Norway has very good integrated public transport system, consisting of trains, metro and bus to move us around the city with ease. Public transport in Oslo is coordinated by Ruter AS. Ruter AS has responsibility for planning, pricing, coordinating and managing the system as a whole .In their public transport, i'm so surprise they have very good system whereby at the bus stop we can know in what time the bus is coming based on the screen putting at the bus stop. Then, if the bus stop doesn't have the screen they were putting the printed paper showing the bus schedule and the buses manage to coming on time at the bus stop. They already manage their time at every station they stop. These is an example that our country, Malaysia could followed for the public transport.

At nationaltheatret station

Another system is the T-Bane system which is popular with commuters and leisure travellers. There are 6 lines numbered 1 to 6 covering much of the city. All lines converge through the city centre in a shared tunnel, so from Majorstuen, Nationaltheatret, Stortinget, Jernbanetorget, Gronland and Toyen stations we can pick up any T-Bane line. There is also a central ring formed by lines 4 and 6 which meets at Nydalen/Storo, north of the city centre. Line 1 is popular with tourists as the primary means of getting to Holmenkollen ski jump and national ski arena, and with locals going hiking or skiing in Nordmarka. We manage went to Holmenkollen ski jump using commuters at Line 1 from Nationaltheatret. This systems is very effective and efficient. We just bought one day pass which is cost about NOK 580 per person, then we can went at any places we want to go under the T-Bane area.

Holmenkollen ski jump

The Norwegian people is very respectful to the pedestrians even the way is their routes. If we want to cross the road they will stop to give a way to us. Also if the car are stopping in the middle of the road for the while such as drop off passengers, they are stopping until the car is moving. They will not cross the vehicle in front of them or press the horn. I'm salute the Norwegian people behaviour.

Picture from my personal collection

CONSUMER COOPERATIVE IN INDIA:
BAR CODE AND INVENTORY SYSTEM

Courses Participant from Malaysia (Me at the left hand side)

In 2010, me and my colleagues went to Maharashtra, India for the purposes of retailing and distribution training at Vaikunth Mehta Institute (VAMNICOM). This program is collaboration between Maktab Koperasi Malaysia and VAMNICOM. It take 14 days for the whole courses. During that courses, we were exposed to the cooperative retail and distribution activities. Beside the lectures, the organizer brought us too many places especially to mini market and supermarket whereby to saw their operations there. 

Peanuts and bar code

Going back to Malaysia at Pune Airport

In India, their cooperatives is doing well in retail industry. One of the factors because of the systems they are using such as the bar code and inventory system. Bar code method has been introduced in India a long time ago. In the cooperative store, bar code will be issuing for each item through a monitored system in the web based. For the cooperatives that has more than one mini market branches, their bar code system was controlled by the head office. That's why the cooperative store has a systematic bar code system and duplication of bar code doesn't exists between co-operative stores. While, for the cooperative store does not have branches, they also have a bar code system that is controlled by the cooperative using 'local server'.

Inventory and Bar Code System

 In terms of stock purchase, the cooperative just looking at the web-based system in order to make a purchase. Through this web based, every branch no need to order at headquarters because the headquarters will make it all the orders and purchases for the branches based on the report generate from the systems. Through this system, the headquarters were know the whole amount and the available stock left and the amount of each co-operative store sales every day. What i learn in MIS class all this process was called "Business Intelligence".

Picture from my personal collection