The GSMP provides for several activities designed to confirm that GS1 standards and guidelines, and implementations thereof, are of sufficiently high quality and meet business and technical goals. In summary, these activities include:

This section defines deliverables that support the deployment by community members of a ratified deliverable. Collateral Deliverables are made available to GS1 Member Organisations and to the GS1 community as a whole to accompany a ratified GS1 standard or guideline.

All Collateral Deliverables are created by a GSMP Work Group in Step 4 of the GSMP 4-Step Process, with assistance from GS1 staff as necessary. Only those collateral deliverables specified in the Work Plan are created for a given Work Request.

This section defines deliverables that are created at intermediate steps within the GSMP 4-Step Process, and exist to support the creation of the ratified deliverables.

This section defines the deliverables that are ratified by the GS1 Management Board via the BCS. The primary purpose of the GSMP is to create these deliverables. The deliverables in the other sections exist only to support the development and adoption of the ratified deliverables.

A Community eBallot is used to confirm community consensus following community review, prototype testing (if applicable), and revision of a draft BRAD, standard, or other GSMP deliverable. It marks the transition from one major step of the GSMP 4-Step Process to the next.

A Community eBallot is conducted according to the following procedure:

■ A Work Group Voice Motion is used to confirm group consensus in situations where the participants in a meeting are considered sufficiently representative of the group

Several steps of the GSMP 4-Step Process specify that a draft document (such as a draft Business Requirements Analysis Document, draft GS1 standard, etc.) is to undergo community review and revision by the Work Group. Community Review refers to a specific sequence of steps to be carried out by the Work Group and the GSMP community, as defined below. The community review process gives all voting members of the GSMP community an opportunity to propose changes to the document before it is complete.

Several steps of the GSMP 4-Step Process specify that a draft document (such as a draft Business Requirements Analysis Document, draft GS1 standard, etc.) is to be “finalised” by the Work Group. The word “finalised” refers to a specific sequence of steps to be carried out by the Work Group, defined below. The purpose of finalisation is for the Work Group to make final revisions to the draft document in preparation for proceeding to the next stage of the process.