Call for Participation: Cross-border logistics & regulators

This call for participation is aimed at MOs and companies interested in participating in a pilot project with the objective to demonstrate benefits for both trade and Customs administrations from the use of GS1 standards for cross-border operations. For more information, click here to read the full CTA .  If you are interested to participate in this activity or for more information please contact Yuliya Shevchenko at yuliya.shevchenko@gs1.org.

CR 10-008 GDSN Package Measurement Rules Public Review, Data Accuracy BRG

The Public Review for CR 10-008 begins on Feb-4-2010 and ends March-6-2010. Proposal : The GS1 US Foodservice Community has reviewed the GS1 GDSN Package Measurement Standards and requests that additional images and notations be added to the section covering Non-Consumer Trade items. This Public review contains a link to CR 10-008 in the CR system, a CR attachment with graphics to show the changes to the Package measurement Rules. Please make your comments 4 PM ET on the 6th of Mar-2010 Close of Public Review.

Link to CR 10-008 Public Review 

CR 10-014 GDSN Package Measurement Rules Public Review, Data Accuracy BRG

The Public Review for CR 10-014 begins on Feb-4-2010 and ends March-6-2010. Proposal: Update GDSN Package Measurement Rules in order to clarify the determination of Default Front for Consumer Trade Items that contain die cuts. This Public review contains a link to CR 10-014 in the CR system, a CR attachment with graphics to show the changes to the Package measurement Rules. Please make your comments 4 PM ET on the 6th of Mar-2010 Close of Public Review.

Link to CR 10-014 Public Review

08-000168 GDSN Healthcare Extension BMS  Public Review

The Public Review for CR 08-000168 begins Friday Feb 5, 2010, and ends Friday Feb 19, 2010.  Please review this document and provide your comments.  This document contains the business and technical solution for the usage of GDSN by the Healthcare sector. It contains attributes not currently supported by Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN) standard. This solution was drafted from the business needs that where collected via input from the GS1 Healthcare Data Sync work team. The data requirements listed in this document represent global business needs. The audience of this BSD is those individuals implementing the Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN) within the Healthcare sector.

Link to the Public Review

CR 09-103 Round 8 eBallot - Validation Rules 510-512, 519-521

These validations are recommendations that  today are codified in the GDSN Operations Manual and they are now being made official GDSN validation rules. General Note: CR 09-103 consolidates under a single work-order change requests numbers 08-230, 08-245 and 08-249 submitted by GS1 Australia, GS1 Netherlands and GS1 Sweden. This eBallot  contains a link to CR 09-103 in the CR system, The VR 510-512, 519-521 summary spreadsheet  and the Business Requirement Spreadsheet. Simple Level of Impact 2

CR 09-242 eBallot - Trade item needs measurement attribute to denote the cube or volume of the trade item.

The trade item needs to have an optional measurement optional attribute to denote the cube of the trade item. Expected benefits: Current business practice utilizes this value to make determinations about items both from a purchase and transportation stand point. Definition- The dimensions of an imaginary cube which can be drawn around the trade item as defined in the formula of H X W X D (The linear dimensions multiplied to get a cubic result). This only applies to In-box dimensions. Level of Hierarchy applied to- All. Example- Bag of Cabbage, Bag of Flour, Broom, Ham, Case of Beer. Rationale- A single point of calculation populated by the manufacturer which trading partners can use as a valid value throughout the supply chain.  Without a single value, trading partners might encounter issues with various ways of rounding on each side of the relationship.  Trading partners may round differently and thereby determine different values for cube and reduce data quality.  Best practices for data quality call for a single source of truth for all calculations. Irregular shaped items are measured as if they are in an imaginary “cube”.  This eBallot contains a link to CR 09-242 in the CR system, and the Business Requirement Spreadsheet. Simple Level of Impact 2.

CR 09-263 eBallot - Change definition of organismMaximumValue

Changes the definition of organismMaximumValue attribute in the Food and Beverage extension:
From: “Maximum allowable value of the microbiological organism.”
To:     “Maximum allowable Colony Forming Units (CFU) of the microbiological organism per weight or volume.”

This eBallot contains a link to CR 09-263 in the CR system, and the Business Requirement Spreadsheet. Simple Level of Impact 1

09-165 Global Traceability Conformance Public Review, Traceability BRG

The Public Review for CR 09-165 begins 28-Jan-2010 and ends 27-Feb-2010. Please review the Global Traceability Conformance (GTC) document and provide your comments. The document contains information on traceability control points and compliance criteria. Please make your comments by 4 PM ET on 27 Feb-2010 Close of Public Review.

Link to the GTC Public Review

09-103 Round 10 VRs 200, 204, 531 - 538 Public Review, GDSN BRG

The Public Review for CR 09-103 Round 10 VRs 200, 204, 531 - 538 begins 28-Jan-2010 and ends 27-Feb-2010. These are recommendations that today are codified in the GDSN Operations Manual and they are now being made official GDSN validation rules. General Note: CR 09-103 consolidates under a single work-order change requests numbers 08-230, 08-245 and 08-249 submitted by GS1 Australia, GS1 Netherlands and GS1 Sweden. This Public review contains a link to CR 09-103 in the CR system, the VR 200, 204, 531 - 538 summary spreadsheet and the Business Requirement Spreadsheet. Please make your comments 4 PM ET on 27 Feb-2010 Close of Public Review. Simple Level of Impact 2.

Link to CR 09-103 Round 10 Public Review

09-142 Public Review, GDSN BRG (Maintenance Release 4 v2.7 BMS Packets)

The CR 09-142 GDSN MR 4 (v2.7) BMS Packet 14 day Public Review begins 4 PM ET on 28-Jan-2010 and ends 11-Feb-2010. Proposal: This change request is to update the appropriate BMS documents for Maintenance Release 4 v2.7. These changes include all approved Simple Level of Impact 1 and 2 changes to the trade item and its extensions received before Mar-1-2009 and approved by June 17 2009. Also included are the solutions to requirements that are backward compatible from BRADs for Television &  Games.   This Public review contains a link to CR 09-142 in the CR system, a link to a Background document folder containing the BRADs, Twelve BMS Packets for GDSN MR 4 (v2.7), A BMS for Validations Spreadsheet and a Delta 2.7 Document. Please make your BMS comments by 4 PM ET on 11-Feb-2010 Close of Public Review.

Link to CR 09-142 Public Review

Public Review: GDSN Trade Item Implementation Guide: Discontinue a Trade Item

The GDSN Item Implementation Guide Work Group is presenting an update to one of its topics: &quotiscontinue a Trade Item". The original Trade Item Implementation Guide was delivered in January of 2007. The guide's objective is to supplement the formal GS1 GDSN standards with advice on their implementation and operation. It is in no way normative or definitive and is not a standard. It seeks to increase consistency and ease of implementation by explaining the standards and providing real-world examples. This public review is only for an update to the already existing &quotiscontinue a Trade Item" topic. 

It has been confirmed that the source data pools do not receive any notification that the GTIN is 48 months after its Discontinue Date (30 months for Apparel). To support this we have modified section 3.4.3 and 3.4.4.1 (#9) of the &quotiscontinue a Trade Item" topic where it is stated that the source data pool will automatically delete GTIN's after 48 months with a discontinued date. The modifications are highlighted in "Yellow". Once approved, it will be updated in the existing GDSN Trade Item Implementation Guide, which is located on the GS1 website at: http://www.gs1.org/gsmp/kc/gdsn. All comments are due by no later than 26-Feb-2010.
 
Link to Public Review Discontinue a Trade Item

Public Review: GDSN Trade Item Implementation Guide: Populating TI/HI

The GDSN Item Implementation Guide Work Group is presenting an update to one of its topics: "Populating TI/HI". The original Trade Item Implementation Guide was delivered in January of 2007. The guide's objective is to supplement the formal GS1 GDSN standards with advice on their implementation and operation. It is in no way normative or definitive and is not a standard. It seeks to increase consistency and ease of implementation by explaining the standards and providing real-world examples. This public review is only for an update to the already existing "Populating TI/HI" topic. 

It has been confirmed that the source data pools do not receive any notification that the GTIN is 48 months after its Discontinue Date. To support this we have modified section 3.4.3 and 3.4.4.1 (#9) of the "Populating TI/HI" topic where it is stated that the source data pool will automatically delete GTIN's after 48 months with a discontinued date. The modifications are highlighted in "Yellow". Once approved, it will be updated in the existing The GDSN Item Implementation Guide, which is located on the GS1 website at: http://www.gs1.org/gsmp/kc/gdsn.

All comments are due by no later than 26-Feb-2010. 

Link to Public Review Populating TI/HI 

Public Review: CR 09-103 Round 9 GDSN Validation Rules 

The Public Review for CR 09-103 Round 9 VRs 513, 515, 524 - 530 begins 21-Jan-2010 and ends 20-Feb-2010. These are recommendations that today are codified in the GDSN Operations Manual and they are now being made official GDSN validation rules.

General Note: CR 09-103 consolidates under a single work-order change requests numbers 08-230, 08-245 and 08-249 submitted by GS1 Australia, GS1 Netherlands and GS1 Sweden. This Public review contains a link to CR 09-103 in the CR system, the VR 513, 515, 524 - 530 summary spreadsheet and the Business Requirement Spreadsheet.

Please make your comments 4 PM ET on 20 Feb-2010 Close of Public Review. Simple Level of Impact 2:

Link to CR 09-103 Round 9 Public Review

09-264 Public Review, GDSN BRG

The Public Review for CR 09-264 begins 21-Jan-2010 and ends 20-Feb-2010. Proposal: There is a need to enable data recipients in GDSN to calculate comparative price for a daily dose. To achieve this data sources must be able to indicate the price comparison content expressed as number of daily doses. A proposed solution is to add the following code value to PriceComparisonContentTypeList: PER_DAILY_DOSE - Specified using PCE as unit of measure (price per daily dose). This Public review contains a link to CR 09-264 in the CR system and the Business Requirement Spreadsheet.

Please make your comments 4 PM ET on 20 Feb-2010 Close of Public Review. Simple Level of Impact 2:

Link to CR 09-264 Public Review

GS1 General Specifications  

The GS1 General Specifications are the core standards document describing how barcodes and identification keys should be used to comply with GS1 AIDC Standards.  As AIDC matures, it is still the means of automated identification and is expanding into more and more sectors such as in Healthcare and leveraging new technologies including GS1 DataBar™ to meet the growing needs of a data hungry world.  In fact, more data being carried by new data carriers in new applications and sectors represents the true future of GS1 AIDC. It isn't just new technology; it's the use of additional data to solve business problems.  This new version of the GS1 General Specifications is a step in that direction.  To access the updated version of the General Specifications, please contact your local Member Organisation.  You can find your local GS1 Office via this link: http://www.gs1.org/contact.
 
The important updates/additions to the GS1 General Specifications V10 include:

Global Healthcare AIDC Application Standards:  A range of global AIDC application standards for Healthcare using the GS1 System Standards have been approved to set a common direction for all product types and package levels.  The main focus is patient safety while being aware that improvement of supply chain management and performance will be achieved at the same time.  In order to improve patient safety, our goal is to enable AIDC marking of healthcare products to allow every healthcare professional with the ability to gather the necessary information on the products in hand using one device (reader/scanner) per work station and utilize a common data set to automatically identify healthcare products from every corner of the globe.  An example of this common data set includes the newly added Application Identifier for "Active Potency".   
 
Application Standards for Small Medical and Surgical instruments:  The addition of a small medical / surgical instruments specific marking standard for Healthcare using the GS1 System Standards is intended to set a common direction for direct marking of small medical / surgical instruments.  These additions define practical AIDC based identification and direct part marking of small medical / surgical instruments for tracking & traceability through the instruments reprocessing cycle. GTIN Indicator Digits Rules:  In the area of the use of Indicator Digits, there currently exist various translations / interpretations of the GS1 General Specifications that has led to divergent implementations, ultimately causing supply chain confusion.  Updates to the GTIN Indicator Digits Rules, promoting a uniform and globally harmonized position, will encourage adoption that ensures patient safety and not patient risk due to over-labeling.  This uniform position includes the clearly stated need for non-POS databases to be enabled to manage a 14 digit Global Trade Item Number (GTIN).

Expanding GS1 Standards for GS1 DataBar™:  Retailers are now globally implementing =and/or piloting product identification using GS1 DataBar™. The new GS1 Standards provide the tools that enable additional GS1 Application Identifiers (weight, price, sell-by date, etc.) to be encoded and captured anywhere in the supply chain. Implementing GS1 DataBar™ will provide the data needed to solve business problems such as consumer safety and traceability programs, quality control and Point-Of-Sale processing.  Use of GS1 Keys as a World Customs Organisation (WCO) Unique Consignment Reference (UCR):  The World Customs Organisation (WCO) has published guidelines for the Unique Consignment Reference (UCR) that requires the sender (consignor) of goods to identify physical grouping of several transport or logistic units to be identified with a single UCR. This UCR is used by customs authorities to identify these groupings of transport units during the import or export processes.  This makes the UCR an integral part of the customs declaration process which can be enabled with the GS1 Key; Global Shipment Identification Number (GSIN).

Reducing cost and enabling requirements of European Regulation:  European Regulation (European Regulation No 275/2007) and customer requirements have been addressed regarding the labeling of beef and beef products.  These changes enable the implementation of simplified beef labeling for representing multiple processing halls in one batch. This will simplify the operational procedures and reduce costs arising by the separate handling that currently takes place. 

Additional Updates:

Increased capacity for Euro denominated Coupons: GS1 manages coupon issuer identification numbers and provides a common data structure for automatic coupon identification.  In order to meet the continued demand, additional capacity has been allocated for coupons denominated with the Euro currency.

Clarification: GS1 is consistently looking for opportunities to improve our Standards and have made updates to ensure that the GS1 General Specifications continue to be the place to go for AIDC Standards.