Overview

EANCOM® is a GS1 EDI standard, fully based on the UN/EDIFACT (United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport), which comprises a set of internationally agreed standards, directories and guidelines for the electronic interchange of data.

EANCOM as a subset of UN/EDIFACT provides the collection of only those message element which are needed by the business application and required by the syntax (mandatory elements). Omitted are optional elements covering very specific business requirements not relevant for GS1 users.

EANCOM incorporates into the electronic messages, the GS1 standards of physical identification of trade items, logistics units and the Global Location Numbers identifying the trading partners. It allows to integrate the physical flow of goods with related information sent by electronic means.