Fashion has its own rules – and creativity has its own system.
Most times we get one and the same reaction: When people understand the GTS principle, they are often amazed by how easy, logical & practical our approach is. With GTS, we connect our Industry’s creativity, its DNA & heart with a new, efficient system or organization, something many experts never thought would be possible.
The result is a powerful, global instrument, which makes it easy to request important product information, in the same way as we have long become used to viewing our online bank statements.
None of the key business topics of our time, such as Corporate Social Responsibility, Circular Economy or Sustainability are possible without reliable data. If our sector continues to rely on manually generated data, we will never reach the level of performance which our consumers understandably expect from us…and, which our planet now requires in order to ensure a sustainable future.
IT IS TIME FOR GTS
Andreas R. Schneider brings years of experience as a Procurement Executive. Since 1996 he worked as a Management Consultant in the fashion industry.
Until December 2020, Mr. Schneider was Managing Partner at GCS Consulting GmbH, Munich, the leading IT consultancy in the German-speaking region for companies in the fashion, sports, luxury goods & lifestyle sectors.
In this role, Mr. Schneider has been a member of important steering groups for many years, such as GS1 (Germany) & the Consumer Goods Forum. He is also a co-creator of important sector standards, such as eBIZ, EPCIS & those surrounding RFID.
Mr. Schneider founded the Global Textile Scheme Initiative through Global Textile Scheme GmbH in September, 2020 & serves as its Strategic & Operational System Head.
He has contributed to German DIN’s Sustainability Roadmap, is Co-Sector Lead Textile in the current CIRPASS project (www.cirpassproject.eu) of the EU, and is extending the GTS standard within the CISUTAC project (www.cisutac.eu) to the new standard for the exchange of circular economy relevant product data.
He manages every facet of the GTS initiative & continues to develop it. He is also the Point of Contact for all it’s dedicated Members with regard to current topics & projects.
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Together ahead: we are all GTS
Industrieverband Veredlung-Garne-Gewebe-Technische Textilien e.V.
