eCom Guidelines

Normative Guidelines have the same status as GS1 standards, developed and approved following the Global Standards Management Process (GSMP)

• eCom Transport Protocols
• Standard Business Document Header (SBDH)
• EANCOM - XML mapping of Trade Item Synchronisation messages

eCom Transport Protocols

• EDIINT AS1 and AS2 Transport Communication Guidelines
  This document defines the technical communication protocols used to transport traditional EDI and XML data from one computer application to another. It is a set of rules how the EDIINT-AS1and EDIINT-AS2 standards should be implemented by the GS1 users. 
• AS2 Disaster Recovery Implementation Guide
  The purpose of this Guideline is to provide information about Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) as it relates to Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) an industry standard for Internet-based data exchange.

Related documents: GS1 also published two informative documents linked to these transport protocols:

• GS1 Newcomers to AS2 Implementation Guide
  The guide assisting GS1 community members who are new to AS2 to successfully implement it within their enterprise network. 
• AS4 - A new tools for the B2B toolbox
  The new AS4 B2B protocol covers all the functionality offered by AS2, but also provides better support for SMEs and is based on modern Web Services technology. 

Standard Business Document Header (SBDH)

This specification defines the Standard Business Document Header (SBDH) which enables integration of documents between internal applications, enterprise applications, and business-to-business infrastructure by providing a consistent interface between applications. The standard header can provide semantic information needed for the routing, processing and business domain context of documents, regardless of the data format of the document – XML , classic EDI or other format.

• Standard Business Document Header (SBDH) Version 1.3 Technical Implementation Guide (issue 3, September 2012)
  This version of the Guide describes the implementation of the SBDH in GS1 XML eCom standard Major Release 3. 
• For the use of SBDH with other GS1 standards, please refer to issue 1 of this Guide:
  Standard Business Document Header (SBDH) Version 1.3 Technical Implementation Guide (issue 1, July 2007)

Related documents:

• SBDH Technical Specifications
• SBDH XML Schema files

EANCOM - XML mapping of Trade Item Synchronisation messages

The objective of this document is to map into EANCOM® 2002 all messages related to the choreography that can be handled by Final users while exchanging data with the data-pools, regardless of being a Data Source or a Data Recipient.

•  Download Catalogue Item Synchronisation BMS to EANCOM Mapping

Messages involved are: