Please take note of the following important GSMP Community Announcements:    

Call-To-Action: GDSN  Hierarchical Withdrawal Notification Work Group    This workgroup will define business requirements around the GDSN Hierarchical Withdrawal Notification process.This Call-to-Action is located on the GSMP Website at: access here 

Public Review: CR 08-000252, GDSN BRG The Public review for CR 08-252 begins 13-Nov-2008 and ends 15-Dec-2008 extended due to two USA Holidays in Nov.  Proposal:  Introduce a fast track attribute to support the need to express the tax status of the product i.e. whether a product is being made available by the supplier in free circulation (duty paid) or in only suspension (duty free). Usually applies to excisable goods .e.g. Liquor & Tobacco.  This Public review contains a Link to CR 08-252 in the CR system and the Business Requirement (See tab CR 08-252). Please make your comments in the Business Requirement spreadsheet using the cRoom comment feature by 15-Dec-2008 at 4 PM ET(Close of Public review) - Simple LOI 1 fast track AVP  Please use the following link for this Public Review:Link to CR 08-252 Public Review  

Public Review: CR 08-000253, GDSN BRG The Public review for CR 08-253 begins 13-Nov-2008 and ends 15-Dec-2008 extended due to two USA Holidays in Nov.  Proposal:  Enable users to indicate that a trade item is physically marked with The Soil Association organic symbol. For more information, please visit http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/Living/organic_standards.html   A proposed solution is to add a new code value to PackageMarksEnvironmentCodeList. This Public review contains a Link to CR 08-253 in the CR system and the Business Requirement (See tab CR 08-253). Please make your comments in the Business Requirement spreadsheet using the cRoom comment feature by 15-Dec-2008 at 4 PM ET (Close of Public review) - Simple LOI 2  Please use the following link for this Public Review:Link to CR 08-253 Public Review  

Synchronising Product Data in HealthcareGlobal GDSN Healthcare Pilot The Global GDSN Healthcare Pilot Team presents its report on the global GDSN Healthcare pilot successfully completed earlier this year. The pilot clearly demonstrated that the GDSN provides the infrastructure to exchange data between data pools across international borders and facilitates synchronisation across the entire length of the supply chain. GS1 Healthcare and GS1 GDSN, Inc. would like to thank all organisations that have participated in the pilot and contributed to this report. Download the full report: http://www.gs1.org/docs/healthcare/Global_GDSN_Healthcare_Pilot.pdf