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GDS Product Description

Neil — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:51:20 GMT

Members of the GS1 UK Data Synchronisation Group (DSG) have expressed concerns around just how companies and the data pools are using the product description and just how practical it is for product data business processes.

Is the standard being followed - that is a concatenation of Brand, Sub-brand, Functional name and Variant?

Are these four fields in the standard product descriptions the right ones for you?

Are you getting through or expecting to use complete a free text field with no format?

Are you always having to change, condense, abbreviate or simply chop the product description to work within your company systems?

Have your say . .. . . .

Functional Name in GDS

Neil — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:09:18 GMT

Do you the Functional Name in your GDS implementation to describe the product family (e.g. Oranges) or do you use it for the description of the product or service (e.g. Soup)?

Is it confusing? are you getting the best from the Functional Name?

Data Pool Interoperability

JonB — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:40:00 GMT

Whilst there are an increasing number of documents, seminars, presentations and the like extolling the virtues and benefits of GDS, can anyone provide genuine examples of successful interoperability between data pools of supplier and retailer (demander) who use different providers of the service, just within the UK, never mind globally?

Would you take advantage of a Preliminary Data Indicator with your suppliers or Trading Partners for new product introductions in GDSN?

Neil — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:41:37 GMT

There is a GSMP change request currently under review that is suggesting the use of a 'Preliminary Data Indicator' in GDSN to meet a business requirement for the supplier to tell the data recipient what's preliminary product data and what's finalised.

As a supplier would you use this capability in a new line introduction process?

As a recipient of new line data would you / could you use preliminary data?

Please share your views.

GDS conference, 19 June 2008, Gaydon, Warwickshire

Tim Brown — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:54:35 GMT

GS1 UK is hosting a conference on GDS on Thursday 19 June at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwickshire. So far over 70 delegates have registered. If you are at all interested in GDS then I recommend you attend this event.

Full details and an agenda can be found at http://www.gs1uk.org/events&Webinars/#2 and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to let me know.

Consumer driven requirement for Product Information

Neil — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:27:02 GMT

There is increasing pressure on the supply chain from consumers wanting to know what's in the products they are eating (calories, nutrients, allergens, etc ), whether their product has been manufactured from sustainable materials or what the product carbon foot print is. How are Suppliers addressing the need for this exponential increase in data that has to found and synchronised with their trading partners?

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