Please take note of the following important GSMP Community Announcements:

Public Review: GDSN BRG CR 08-079

The Public review has begun for CR 08-079. The purpose of this CR is to Re-word the definition of ReplacedTradeItemIdentification to its original usage, removing its usage for Item Futurization Business Standard and updating the Trade Item Implementation Guide. Included in this Public Review is a link to the original CR - The Business Requirement Queue (See Proposed Tab 08-079). All Comments should be entered by 4 PM ET on 15 May 2008 (public Review closure date). Please use the following link for your review:

CR 08-079 Public Review Link

Public Review: BRAD Trading Partner Performance Management

Trading Partner Performance Management (TPPM) work group, is comprised of retailers, suppliers, industry groups and GS1 member organizations which were tasked to standardize the measures, definitions, and means of exchanging joint scorecarding measures. Please note that this is a 60 Day Public Review.

Start Date is 1May 2008 and End Date is 30 June 2008.

Please use the following link for your review:

BRAD Trading Partner Public Review Link

Call to Action: NATO Asset Tracking Work Group

Objectives:

1. Enable the 26 NATO Nations to exchange information globally using GS1 Application Identifiers (AIs).

2. Enhance the NATO Supply Chain by establishing permanent AI to further define shipment requirements.

3. Expand the requested AI to the NATO Trading Partners and the commercial market place such as CPG.

Attached is the CTA at:

http://www.gs1.org/docs/gsmp/call_to_action/CTA_NATO_Asset_Tracking.pdf

We continue to seek opportunities for improvement in our events and ask that you take a few minutes to complete the on-line survey at the link provided below. Your feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated. This survey will be open until May9th:

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=U2999P49Q247

GSMP Quarterly Newsletter and Management Report

The GSMP Quarterly Newsletter and Management Report are now available on the GSMP website.

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GDSN Broker/Distributor Model Implementation Guides

The Trade Item Implementation Guide Work Group has released Issue 7 of the GDSN Trade Item Implementation Guide - the definitive source on how to implement GDSN data. This new issue now supports implementation guidelines for Broker/Distributor Model.

The GDSN Trade Item Implementation Guide is located on the GS1 website at:

gs1.org/services/gsmp/kc/gdsn/index.html

GS1 Architecture – Who and What is it and Why Have it?

During the GS1 Forum held in February 2008 a representative group of the GS1 Architecture Team presented to the GS1 community an overview and vision of what GS1 Architecture and what the GS1 Architecture Team is all about – Submitted by Sue Schmid (GS1 Australia)

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Public Review: “GDSN Overview” for GDSN Trade Item Implementation Guide

This public review supports a new section to be added to the GDSN Trade Item Implementation Guide. This new section is entitled “GDSN Overview” and upon approval will replace sections 2.1 and 2.2. All comments are due by no later than 5:00 PM ET on 23-May-2008.

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Public Review: BarCodes & ID BRG General Specification Updates for System Logic for DataBar and DataMatrix

The public review is for the review of the Development Team Proposals (DTPs) for the revisions to Section 5, 7 and 8 of the General Specifications version 2.0 that have been upgraded specific areas addressing DataBar and DataMatrix.

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Public Review: BarCodes & ID BRG General Specification Updates to amend Section 5.6 and 8.1

The public review is for the review of the Development Team Proposals (DTPs) that make amendments to the wording of Sections 5.6 and 8.1 of the General Specification version 2.0.

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