GS1 Standards & System Development Newsletter

The first edition of our GS1 Standards & System Development Newsletter is now available and includes the following articles:
• Highlights of the GS1 Organisational Effectiveness Process
• Global Public Policy Initiatives in the US and Europe
• GS1 Certification Program
• The Global Electronic Party Information Register
• Training and Education Program
• Updates on GS1 BarCodes, GS1 EPCglobal, GS1 GDSN, GS1 eCom and GS1 MobileCom
• Industry News
• Community News

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Call to Action Reminder:  Objective/Scope of the GSMP Serial Number Replacement or Supply WG

A reminder to all of you who are interested in this group to please join.  We need Solution Providers and Users to join this group. We intend now to have a kickoff conference call on December 3 at 9:00 am EST. The scope of this work group is to develop a comprehensive set of business requirements for how companies deal with the loss of a serialization on an instance of an item.  This will include rules for how and when these "re-serializations" can occur and will be the basis for one or more technical solutions that may pertain to barcodes and RFID (note: the technical solution is NOT part of the scope of this group).  Further, the group will take a starting point the requirements generated from the GSMP "Missing Identifier Resolution" Work Group.

Serial Number Replacement or Supply WG (Oct 2009) - WO 09-206 Call to Action

Bar Codes & ID BRG WO# 09-146 Public Review 
 
Bar Codes & ID BRG WO#09-000146 GTIN-8 & AI (01) public review opens on Thursday, 5 November 2009 and closes on Friday, 4 December 2009. This work order amends Section 3.3.2 of the General Specification version 9, January 2009 to make explicit that a GTIN-8 may be denoted by AI (01).

Please use the following link to this Public Review: Link to Public Review 09-146

Global Traceability Standard 09-143 Public Review

The 30 Day Public Review for WO 09-000143  starts 4 November 2009 0800AM EST (New York) and ends 4 December 2009 0800 AM EST (New York). Make comments to the FINAL BRAD in this folder. The GTS has been updated to be the generic, foundational standard for traceability in ANY industry sector. Any items in the GTS that are sector specific was removed to ensure it is truly generic.

Please use the following link to this Public Review: Link to Public Review 09-143

Missing Identification Resolution, Highlighting Serialisation - Technical Implementation Guide Released

This implementation guide scopes the current missing identification challenges, proposes use case scenarios, and where feasible, recommends options to help supply chain partners identify items.  It describes how to use the current available GS1 standards to solve missing identification primarily with serialisation.

The Implementation Guide is located on the GS1 knowledge Centre at: http://www.gs1.org/gsmp/kc/barcodes