GSMP Standards Development Groups

The GSMP brings together users from all industries and from everywhere in the world to develop and implement supply chain standards. Meetings are scheduled via the:

Our users contribute via the following GSMP Standards Development Groups:

Business Requirement Groups (BRG)

BarCodes & Identification BRG

Develops standards related to automatic identification and data capture (AIDC), GS1 Application Identification, GS1 bar codes, and other related and emerging technology
Meeting Dates: Every 3rd Tuesday of the month
Meeting Times: 09:00–11:00 ET (Princeton), 15:00–17:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Tom Heist
Community Room: BarCodes BRG

Data Accuracy BRG

Develops standards related to GDSN Package Measurement Rules and Tolerances
Meeting Dates: Every 1st & 3rd Friday of the month
Meeting Times: 10:00–11:00 ET (Princeton), 16:00–17:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Justin Childs
Community Room: Data Accuracy BRG

eCom BRG

Develops and maintains the business processes and associated data requirements used in transactional processes within the supply & demand chain. Also develops GS1 solutions using XML syntax and/or EANCOM (a subset of UN/EDIFACT, the international standard for Electronic Data Interchange).
Meeting Dates: Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month
Meeting Times: 08:30–10:00 ET (Princeton), 14:30–16:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Managers: Jean-Luc Champion
Community Room: eCom BRG

Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) BRG

The GSMP managed GDSN BRG is a forum to identify specific barriers to implementation, necessary process updates for existing standards, standards enhancements (ex. develop validation rules and documentation updates), and to discuss changes to the GS1 Standards that affect the GDSN Community
Meeting Dates: Every Tuesday
Meeting Times: 9:00–11:00 ET (Princeton), 15:00–17:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Justin Childs
Community Room: GDSN BRG

Global Product Classification (GPC) BRG

Develops and maintains a global product classification system
Meeting Dates: Every Wednesday
Meeting Times: 9:00–10:00 ET (Princeton), 15:00–16:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Mike Mowad
Community Room: GPC BRG

Traceability BRG

Defines the specifications and structures of traceability involved in supply chain processes. It aims to be the generic, foundational standard for traceability in ANY industry sector.
Meeting Dates: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month
Meeting Times: 09:00-10:30 ET (Princeton) 15:00-16:30 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: John Ryu
Community Room: Traceability BRG

Work Groups (WG)

AIDC Healthcare Implementation Guide Work Group

Currently additions and changes to the GS1 General Specification to accommodate the automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) marking and labelling of Healthcare products with the specific focus on patient safety are in the final stages of development within the GSMP system based upon the business requirements previously gathered by the GS1 Healthcare AIDC Application Standards Work Team as part of their Phase 1 work. This group is being formed to create a globally adaptable guideline for the implementation of this AIDC Application Standard for Healthcare.
Meeting Dates: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month
Meeting Times 9:00-10:00 ET (15:00-16:00 CET)
Process Manager: Mike Mowad
Community Room: Implementation Guidelines for AIDC in Healthcare Work Group (WG) (09-152)

BarCodes & EPC Interoperability Requirements Work Group

In 2008 the GS1 Architecture Group formed a Parsing Sub Group to investigate interoperability issues associated with the standards and implementation for bar codes and EPC. Building upon the recommendations in the 9 January 2009 report Interoperability between Bar Codes and EPC - Board Committee for Standards, a project was launched to manage the implementation of the recommendations.
The objective of the Bar Codes & EPC Interoperability Requirements Work Group is to gather and analyze business requirements for use cases that require interoperability among the GS1 data carriers and their supporting infrastructure. This shall be done from a multi-sector perspective.
Meeting Dates:Every 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month 
Meeting Times 08:00 – 10:00 ET, 14:00 – 16:00 CET
Process Manager: Tom Heist
Community Room: BarCodes & EPC Interoperability Requirements Work Group

Blood Derivatives Work Group

Plasma derivatives are currently in a kind of “grey zone”, some of the suppliers identifying them with GS1 keys and attributes, some identifying them with ISBT 128 keys and attributes,some providing no AIDC solution at all. To compensate variety of AIDC solution on the products, many users have to re-label –which is a possible source of errors and considered as inefficient. This situation is not only inefficient but put patients at increased risks. The working group will:

  • Identify current business processes that new functionalities can improve.
  • List, understand and validate business requirements from each party in the supply chain, including the care giver.
  • Collaborate with ICCBBA to secure product identification without gap and with full interoperability.
  • Deliver guidance on labelling requirements for the products in scope of the present change request.

Meeting Dates: Every 2nd & 4th th Tuesday of the month
Meeting Times 7:00 – 08:30 ET2nd and 4th (13:00-14:30 CET)
Process Manager: Tom Heist
Community Room: Blood Derivatives Work Group

eCom Intelligent Packaging Work Group

An industry group has expressed a need to develop global standards to aid the communication of package label content.  This communication typically happens between a manufacturer/ supplier and their packaging design vendors.  Currently, various processes are utilized to handle this communication and can be rather cumbersome at times
There is also a need to share package label content with downstream recipients of the products (e.g. eRetailers, Retailers, Distributors, and Brokers).  These recipients would like to have electronic access to the information as it would greatly enhance their marketing efforts in relation specifically to, but not limited to, electronic commerce applications.
Meeting Times: 2nd & 4th Monday of the Month from 09:00–11:30 EDT / 15:00-16:30 CET00am to 08:30am ET (Princeton), 15:00-16:30 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Jean-Luc Champion
Community Room: eCom Intelligent Packaging WG

eCom Logistics Standards Work Group

Develops GS1 exchange standards based on the existing logistics related eCom standards (addressing both EANCOM® and GS1 XML). It will also investigate inclusion for solutions for the SME’s like XML-forms, eDocs, which are not yet part of the standard.
Meeting Dates: Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month
Meeting Times: 07:00am to 08:30am ET (Princeton), 13:00-14:30 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Jean-Luc Champion
Community Room: eCom Logistics Standards WG

Enhanced Party Synchronisation Work Group

Standardizes the synchronisation of parties upon Identification of 3rd parties, Improved Contact Information, Defined Organizational Relationships, Acquisitions, Mergers & Divestitures, and Communications with Price & Promotions Synchronisation.
Meeting Dates: First Monday and Third Tuesday of the month
Mon Meeting Times: 07:30 - 09:00 ET (Princeton), 13:30-15:00 CET (Brussels)
Tues Meeting Times: 15:30 - 17:00 ET (Princeton), 21:30-23:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Melanie Kudela
Community Room: Enhanced Party Synchronisation WG

EPCglobal Data Exchange Work Group

Analysis of EPCglobal Core Business Vocabulary for use within the EPCIS standard, which will provide a common set of terminology for secure exchange of EPC event information.
Meeting Dates: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month
Meeting Times: 10:00–11:00 ET (Princeton), 16:00-17:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Managers: Gena Morgan & Brian Bennett
Community Room: EPCglobal Data Exchange WG

Fresh Foods Standards Work Group 

Fresh Foods has become a global supply chain. Retailers and suppliers face numerous issues including local regulations relating to food safety and tracking and traceability, brand wnership of the products sold at Point-of-Sale (POS), and supply chain cost pressures. There’s increasing pressure for the industry to implement solutions that will ultimately change how fresh foods are marked, labeled and sold today. Additional data at POS will create supply chain efficiency and bottom line improvement for all GS1 members.

The 2008 GS1 Fresh Foods Identification Strategy calls for fresh variable measure food products to migrate from current Restricted Circulation Numbers (RCN’s) to a Global Trade Item Number (GTIN). RCN’s do not provide brand owner information at POS.

This Call-to-Action is seeking stakeholders in the following fresh food sectors: Produce, Meat and Poultry, Seafood, Deli/Dairy/Bakery, along with participants from Foodservice, Grocery Retail and Fresh Food Trade Associations.
Meeting Dates:Every  2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month
Meeting Times: 08:30–10:00 ET (Princeton), 14:30–16:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Managers: John Ryu
Community Room: Fresh Foods Standards Work Group 

 

GDSN Books, Magazines, and Publication Extension Work Group

 

Defines the business requirements around Books, Magazines and Publications Extensions.
Meeting Dates: Every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month at
Meeting Times: 10:30-11:30 ET (Princeton), 16:30–17:30 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Justin Childs
Community Room: GDSN Books, Magazines, and Publications WG

GDSN Code Lists Improvement Work Group

Simplifies and Scopes Code Lists and provides definitions for Code Values
Meeting Dates: Every other Monday
Meeting Times: 7:30–8:30 ET (Princeton), 13:30–14:30 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Justin Childs
Community Room: GDSN Code Lists Improvement WG

GDSN Code Lists Improvement UOM Work Group Phase 2

Harmonize and update the Unit of Measure Code List. Categorize and deploy smaller code lists applicable to the type of attribute.
Meeting Dates: 1st and 3rd Mondays 
Meeting Times: 8:30–9:30 am ET (Princeton), 14:30–15:30 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Justin Childs
Community Room: GDSN Code Lists Improvement UOM WG Phase 2

GDSN Enhanced Party Synchronisation Implementation Work Group

Develops the GDSN Enhanced Party Synchronisation Implementation Guide, which is supplements the formal GDSN standards with advice on their implementation and operation Meeting Dates: Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month
Meeting Times: 08:30–10:00 ET (Princeton), 14:30–16:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Melanie Kudela
Community Room: GDSN Enhanced Party Synchronisation Implementation WG

GDSN Healthcare GDSN Extension Work Group

Defines additional healthcare data requirements and to build a Healthcare Extension for the GDSN.
Alternating Call Schedule:
Week One: Monday 8am ET, 2pm CT, 10pm Melbourne, Midnight Auckland
Week Two: Monday 5 PM ET, 11pm CT, / 7am Tuesday Melbourne, 9am Auckland
Process Manager: Pete Alvarez
Community Room: GDSN Healthcare GDSN Extension WG

GDSN Maintenance Release Work Group

Scoped with building Business Message Standards (BMS) for approved Business Requirements from the GDSN BRG, creating efficiency and consistency between related GDSN Projects, and delivering the solutions for the various GDSN Maintenance Releases that update the Network with enhancements
Meeting Dates: Every Monday
Meeting Times: 9:30–10:30 ET (Princeton), 15:30–16:30 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Justin Childs
Community Room: GDSN Maintenance Release WG

GDSN Modular Item Work Group

Improves the infrastructure of the GDSN by developing a more flexible trade item (easier to implement and maintain for the users of the network)
Meeting Dates: Every Thursday
Meeting Times: 9:00–10:00 ET (Princeton), 15:00–16:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Jean-Luc Champion
Community Room: GDSN Modular Item WG

 

GDSN Standardize Chemical Ingredient Information Work Group

The objective/Scope of the GDSN Standardize Chemical Ingredient Information WG is to define Business requirements around Standardizing Chemical Ingredient Information, and then create a Business Message Solution (BMS) composed of a Business Solution Design (BSD) which then is used to create a Technical Solution Design (TSD).
Meeting DatesEvery 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month
Meeting Times: 11:00–1:00 ET (Princeton), 17:00–19:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Justin Childs
Community Room: GDSN Standardize Chemical Ingredient Information WG

 

GDSN Trade Item Implementation Work Group

 

Develops the GDSN Trade Item Implementation Guide, which is intended to supplement formal GDSN standards with advice on their implementation and operation
Meeting Dates: Every 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month
Meeting Times: 10:00–11:30 ET (Princeton), 16:00–17:30 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Mike Mowad
Community Room: GDSN Trade Item Implementation WG 

GS1 Key Clarification Work Group

The objectives for this work group are to clarify the role, application and use of the GS1 Keys as defined in the General Specifications, make clear that asset identifiers cannot be used instead of GTINs for trading purposes, and improve the definitions of assets and returnable assets, and to determine what the functionalities of GS1 key(s) for asset identification should be.
Meeting Dates: Every 2nd Tuesday of the month
Meeting Times: 08:00–09:30 ET (Princeton), 14:00–15:30 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Andrew Hern
Community Room: GS1 Key Clarification Work Group

Healthcare GLN Work Group

The healthcare sector requires the identification of physical locations, legal and departmental entities, to support current and future business practices. For this purpose the global healthcare community wishes to engage in the review of the existing and if necessary development of the GS1 standards, GLN assignment rules & implementation guidelines to support the identified business needs.
Meeting Dates: Every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month
Meeting Times: 10:30 - 11:30 ET (Princeton), 16:30–17:30 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Tom Heist
Community Room: Healthcare GLN Work Group

Multiple BarCodes Work Group

This group is being formed to assess the impact of the move toward multiple BarCodes on one end-user package to make it easy for humans and machines to use BarCode technology in supply chain and mobile commerce applications.  Some examples of the problems that could occur are:

  • a consumer mobile scanning a code designed for back-end processing
  • a POS scanner reading a code designed for consumer mobile scanning 
  • hospital users unsure which code to read due to multiple bar codes fulfilling regional requirements

The main objectives will be:

  • to identify potential solutions to support FMCG, Healthcare, internal, and mobile commerce applications and then standardize those solutions
  • to support all business requirements with as few data elements as possible in the bar codes (data carriers) so our membership will be able to use as few data elements as possible
  • to support all business requirements using as few bar codes (data carriers) as possible so our membership in order to get that data into as few data carriers as possible
  • to make it obvious to consumers, end users, caregivers, etc. which bar code on the package is THEIR bar code
  • to make it obvious to machines which bar code is their bar code of interest 􀂃

The output focus is twofold, a standard on which data carrier to use (when and how) looking for the best solution at the global level, independent of current legacy

  • a standard solution to avoid dual or triple carriers on a package (wherever possible one bar code symbol and not two or more). 
  • Though EPC / RFID is also a data carrier,this group will not address guidelines for how EPC / RFID tag data shall be represented for optical or human reading or tag data representation as this is an interoperability discussion and should be dealt with as part of another existing project (the Integrated Architecture PDD).

Meeting Dates: Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the Month
Meeting Times: 11:00am to 12:00pm ET (Princeton), 17:00–18:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Tom Heist
Community Room: Multiple BarCodes Work Group

NATO Asset Tracking Work Group

Enables the 26 NATO Nations to exchange information globally using GS1 Application Identifiers (AIs). Enhances the NATO Supply Chain by establishing permanent AI to further define shipment requirements. Expands the requested AI to the NATO Trading Partners and the commercial market place such as CPG.

Meeting Dates: Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the Month
Meeting Times: 09:00–10:30 ET (Princeton), 15:00–16:30 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: John Ryu
Community Room: NATO Asset Tracking WG

Patient & Care Giver Work Group

The care delivery process involves a series of Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) mechanisms to uniquely identify the patient, the care giver and the healthcare product(s) at the delivery of care to assure patient safety. Global standards are being created for the uniform AIDC marking and labeling of healthcare products. The objective of this work group is to complete the standards for identification and marking/labeling for the patient and care giver to enable AIDC applications for the care delivery process as well as unique patient identification for other purposes, such as Individual  Electronic Health Records (IEHR). To complete the tasks of the change request, the work group will

  • Gather patient and care giver identification requirements
  • Perform a gap analysis against the current GS1 System Standards
  • Recommend a uniform identification solution
  • Recommend a uniform AIDC marking/labeling solution
  • Develop any necessary enhancements to the GS1 General Specifications
  • Provide implementation recommendations to the GS1 Healthcare Leadership Team

When AIDC can be used at the bed side of the patient, in the operating theatre and at other points throughout the patient care experience, more accurate and timely data capture will allow the 5 Patient Rights: the right patient, right medication/product, right dosage, right route of administration and right time. A unique and unambiguous solution for patient identification will also allow the more effective introduction of electronic healthcare (eHealth) initiatives such as the IEHR.
Meeting Dates: 1st & 3rd Tuesday
Meeting Times:  08:00 - 09:00 ET (Princeton), 14:00-15:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Tom Heist
Community Room: Patient & Care Giver Work Group

Physical Location Identification and Definition for Visibility Data Work Group

Develops standards related to physical location identification
Meeting Dates: Every 2 weeks on Tuesday
Meeting Times: 08:00 - 09:00 ET (Princeton), 14:00-15:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Melanie Kudela
Community Room: Physical Location Identification

Product Recall Work Group

Businesses, end users and regulators in various markets around the world have an interest in establishing a common method to recall products at various points of the supply chain. The need exists for a standard set of business processes and the supporting data that enables trading partners in a supply chain to quickly and efficiently initiates a recall and track its progress through to its conclusion (meaning the identified product is no longer available for consumption).
Meeting Dates:  1st and 3rd Thursday of the Month
Meeting Times: 9:00 - 10:30 ET (Princeton) 15:00 - 16:30 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Melanie Kudela
Community Room: Product Recall Work Group

Serial Number Replacement or Supply WG

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.Meeting Dates: Every Thursday
Meeting Times: 9.00-10.00 ET (Princeton), 15.00-16.00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Mark Frey
Community Room: Serial Number Replacement or Supply WG

Traceability in Healthcare II

The Work Team's Mission is "To develop a suite of GS1 Global Standards that enable Traceability in Healthcare. A suite that comprises of the process and technical standards necessary to achieve end to end (raw materials to patient care) global supply chain traceability (that is: track forward/downstream and trace backward/upstream).
The suite of process and technical standards will be the foundation for ultimately achieving the GS1 Vision for Traceability in Healthcare through the incremental implementation of traceability systems that enable "Patient Safety, Regulatory Compliance, Supply chain safety and integrity"

Meeting Dates: Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday
Meeting Times: 09:00-11:00 ET (Princeton), 15:00-17:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: John Ryu
Community Room: Traceabilty in Healthcare

Trading Partner Performance Management Work Group

This Work Group will develop standards to build comprehensive, unambiguous metrics definitions and standard communications mechanisms for these metric values.
Meeting Dates: Every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month
Meeting Times: 10:30–12:00 ET (Princeton), 16:30-18:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: John Ryu
Community Room: Trading Partner Performance Management WG

Technology Centre

Identification Technology Group (BTG)

Functions in an advisory role to the BarCodes & Identification BRG, its associated work groups, and the GS1 Business Unit Managers
Meeting Dates: Every 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month
Meeting Times: 09:00–11:00 ET (Princeton), 15:00–17:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Frank Sharkey
Community Room: BarCodes & Id BTG

eCom Technology Group (eTG)

Defines technical requirements on B2B message transport and routing, message architecture, security, and more.
Meeting Dates: Every 2nd Thursday of the month
Meeting Times: 10:00–11:00 ET (Princeton), 16:00–17:00 CET (Brussels)
Process Manager: Justin Childs
Community Room: eCom Technology Group