Public Review: Data Accuracy BRG , GDSN Package Measurement Rules - WO 09-157 & 09-173

The Public Review for WO 09-157 and 09-173 Data Accuracy BRG Work Orders combine to create the next issue of the standard "GDSN Package Measurement Rules i1.10 draft". The Public Review will begin on June 25-2009 and end on July-27-2009, and is extended due to USA & Canadian Holidays.  The draft GDSN Package Measurement Rules shows all changes to the document and should be self explanatory:  

WO 09-173 clarifies the following sections:
A.    Section 4.4 - Hanging items: Added clarification for measuring hanging items.
B.    Section 5.3 - Non-Consumer trade items: Added clarification for measurement of Display Boxes, Shrink Packs, and Tray Packs.
C.    Sections 6.2 and 6.3 - Measurement tolerances: Re-arranged existing information to provide additional clarity by aligning tolerances with their descriptors.
D.    Section 6.3 added Small Package Tolerance for the Each Level to the last Row in Figure 6-2 and added a clarifying note below figure 6-2 the last note.  

WO 09-157 clarifies the exclusion of shelf orientation when determining the Default Front for a Consumer Trade item in section 4.2 and adds includes clarifying graphics provided by the WO submitter GS1 Sweden. This Public Review contains GDSN Package Measurement Rules Issue 1.10 draft and links to the original WOs. Please use the C-Room public review comment feature by 27-July-2009 (close of Public Review).

Please use the following Link for this Public Review: Link to WO 09-157 & 09-173
  
 
Public Review: Missing Identification Resolution Technical Implementation Guide - WO 08-110

The Public review for the Missing Identification Resolution Technical Implementation Guide begins 25-June-2009 and ends 24-July-2009. The Missing Identification Resolution (MIR) working group's Implementation Guideline is created to address situations in which a tag is broken or issing in the Supply Chain. The guideline also addresses what to do if the brand owner product is not willing to tag their products, even though further downstream tagging is required. The group found that presently there is no solution within the published standards for assignment of a serial number to a SGTIN by another party other than the brand owner. Therefore, they have written a Change Request, which will be submitted into the GSMP standards development process. To help with the change request, MIR gathered business requirements that affect serialization. This group has included members from all of the GS1 communities including GSMP and EPCglobal Please make your comments in the Implementation Guideline spreadsheet using the cRoom comment feature by 4 PM ET 24-July-2009 (Close of Public review).

Please use the following Link for this Public Review:  Link to WO 08-110
 
 
Public Review: GDSN BRG, WO 09-171

The Public review for CR 09-171 begins 25-June-2009 and ends 31-July-2009 extended to allow MR WG feedback. CR 09-171 Proposal:  change to allow an unlimited number of brick descriptors from the current max of 7 brick descriptors (attribute-value pairs) per GPC Brick. This public review contains a link to CR 09-171 in the CR system and the Business Requirement Spreadsheet. Please use the croom comment feature to make any comments in the spreadsheet making any comments by 4 PM ET on 31-July-2009 Close of Public Review). Simple LOI 2

Please use the following Link for this Public Review: Link to WO 09-171

Public Review: BarCodes & ID Indicator Digit Rules Work Group, WO 08-181

The Indicator Digit Rules Work Group is posting their GSCN for WO #08-181 for public review. The review period starts on Thursday, 25-June-2009 and ENDS on Friday, 24-July-2009. The purpose of this change is to clarify the interpretation of the phase in the General Specification "...usually at the lowest level" and the use of GTIN-14 for regulated healthcare products. Please use the C-Room public review comment feature by  24-July-2009 (close of Public Review).

Please use the following Link for this Public Review: Link to WO 08-181

The 5th edition of the GS1 GDSN Newsletter is now available

http://www.gs1.org/sites/default/files/docs/gdsn/GDSN_Newsletter_june_09.pdf

This edition includes the following articles:

GDSN in action
- Cora Supermarkets: synchronising data is simple, quick and easy
- Auchan France takes the Data Quality Challenge
- Carrefour, Kraft and P&G synchronising data in Spain
- GS1 Germany helps an SME see big benefits
- Gaining insight with category management

News from GDSN-Certified data pools
- Getting bottom-line results with quality data: a hardlines case study
- GHX launches the Health Connexion™ GDSN-certified data pool
- CabasNet having a real impact on Colombian value chains
- NHS supply chain to improve its product information with GS1 UK data pool
- Synquinox: new GDSN-certified data pool
- SA2 Worldsync holds successful first European user congress
- aecocdata at GS1 Spain: working hard to help GDSN grow

Status updates & accomplishments
- Healthcare implementation initiative underway
- Did you know? Segmentation of GTINS in the GDSN today
- Data Quality Challenge phase 1 successfully concluded
- GDSN change requests and network deployments: an update
- Deployment of Maintenance Release 3 (MR3)
- Update on the 2009 –2010 GDSN roadmap
- Use GS1 XML standards internally, too

Thank you,

GDSN Inc

www.gs1.org/gdsn

Please update my email address to reflect a recent branding change by our company. In the near future, the SA2.com email address will no longer be valid.

Email:   gkille@sa2worldsync.com

Website:  http://sa2worldsync.com

I am also including a phone number change as well.

Phone: Remove the 703-234-5132 number. Use only the Mobile number 703-629-9783. Calls to the old number will still forward to my mobile as they currently do, however the old number will be discontinued sometime this year.

Thank you!

The following note has been sent by Justin childs, GS1 Global Office. For anyone interested, please contact Justin directly, and copy me on your response. Thank you!

This is a formal Call for Data Accuracy BRG Co-chair Candidate Volunteers; please reply to Justin Only by July 10th 2009 justin.childs@gs1.org . We have a history of trying to have a retailer and a supplier as co-chairs and in this case we have a supplier already in Kenneth Bray so we would prefer to have a retailer co-chair volunteer. Keep in mind if no retailer can get clearance to co-chair then we will need a supplier to do so. Thanks for considering this role the time involvement is very little compared to other more active groups. Recently as little as an extra 15 minutes to a half hour every couple of months to Quality Control check the meeting minutes and agendas. This co-chairing is separate from our Tolerance Pilot co-chairing which is a little more time consuming.

Sincerely
Justin Childs
Global Standards Director
GS1 GSMP
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CR 08-226 - Round 4 of the SA2 change request (note: this represents the final list of proprietary attributes submitted by SA2)

Adds attributes to the GDSN core item data model, or appropriate GDSN item data extension. Contained in this change request are attributes for specific product types, regulatory requirements, hazardous substance requirements and other generic trade item characteristics. The interim deployment of these attributes using the Fast Track AVP data extension was also requested.

CR 08-230, 08-245 & 08-249 - Validation rules for GDSN Item data.

This is the first round of additional GDSN validations to be perfomred on item data. Work continues within a sub-team to review further validations associated with the 3 change requests submitted by Sweden, Australia and the Netherlands. These validation rules may vary in complexity as to GSMP work effort but their implementation will be complex to Data Pools, Retailer, Suppliers & Solution Providers with programming required or new mapping etc.

CR 08-291 - Review and update section 9.2. (Appendix in the Trade Item BMS

Updates the definition and usage of “Common to all Levels of Hierarchy” and to review the “Common to All Levels of Hierarchy” classification of each attribute in the Trade Item. This chart will no longer be part of the BMS but will be added to the Trade Item Implementation Guidelines. GDSN Architecture Group Reviewed CR 08-291 to confirm if attributes have common values across an item hierarchy or not.

CR 09-038 -  Add a list of attributes to the GDSN External File Class of attributes.

Adds a number of new attributes to the external file class providing further information relating to digital assets contained at the URLs loaded in the item message. These attributes will allow for necessary information in retailer systems to be provided from the asset's source.

CR 09-042 - add an attribute for Community Visibility Date

Introduces Community Visibility Date, defined as "From this date, the neutral trade item information (i.e. not the private information, no relationship-dependent data and no price data) is available to all members of the target data pool, without restriction.  Until this date only the data recipients to whom the data source has explicitly published the data can have access to the data.  By setting this date a data source gives permission for wider publication of the generic item data." The date is optional and not repeatable.  It is a date, rather than a date/time stamp.
Note: This is different from endDateTimeOfExclusivity which refers to the physical supply of the trade item through the supply chain.  This date refers to the availability / visibility of data about the trade item, not the trade item itself.
Validation rule: For Target Markets Australia (AU) and New Zealand (NZ), the date is mutually exclusive with the attribute "partyReceivingPrivateData".

CR 09-049 - Price Synchronization validations

Changes to two Price related validation rules and adds one new business rule :
A. Changed Rule 409: A targeted condition must have a prior confirmation status of accept, synchronize or review except when a segment is first synchronized (as an Add). In this case, it may also be targeted in the same file without the requirement of a prior confirmation status.   409 Error Message Description: The Target Condition must be in the accept, synchronize, or review status except when the Target Condition is first synchronized (as an Add).
B. New Business Rule for the Price Sync BMS : Any rejection of a targeted price type would result in the rejection of the targeting price type. 
C. Changed Rule 415: A targeted price type must have a prior confirmation status of accept, synchronize or review except when a segment is first synchronized (as an Add). In this case, it may also be targeted in the same file without the requirement of a prior confirmation status. 415 Error Message Description: The Target Price type must be in the accept, synchronize, or review status except when the Target Price Type is first synchronized (as an Add).

CR 09-057 - Add an attribute for Heat of Combustion

Adds a new attri bb ute for the Heat of combustion. Definition:  "The amount of Heat generated by the item should it catch on fire, expressed for example as BTU’s (British Thermal Units) per Pound".  This field is used for storage decisions in the warehouse.  There is a need to know if the combustion of 1 item in storage could trigger the combustion of another stored nearby. What’s important here is the ‘amount of heat’.  Heat of combustion is … once the item does explode, how hot is the actual explosion? Expected Benefit: To identify if the trade item is heat combustible and reflected in for example BTUs. This facilitates identification of  trade items that are flammable under certain temperatures, e.g. hairspray and aerosol insect repellent.

CR 09-091 - Enable users to indicate information about the containment of built-in batteries in products.

Adds additional attributes relative to batteries required for specific trade items. Information needed is type of battery, number of batteries contained and the weight of each battery. 
- Quantity of Batteries Required 
- Type of Battery
- Is Battery BuiltIn
- Battery Weight

Note: these attributes may be combined with existing attributes currently contained in the Electronic Games extension to form a more robust class of attributes, and subsequently moved to core item for use by more types of products.