EPCIS and Core Business Vocabulary (CBV)

The goal of EPCIS is to enable disparate applications to create and share visibility event data, both within and across enterprises.

This sharing is aimed at enabling users to gain a shared view of physical or digital objects within a relevant business context.

EPCIS is intended to be used in conjunction with the GS1 Core Business Vocabulary (CBV) standard. The CBV provides definitions of data values that may be used to populate the data structures defined in the EPCIS standard. The use of the standardized vocabulary provided by the CBV standard is critical to interoperability and critical to provide for querying of data by reducing the variation in how different businesses express common intent.

The EPCIS and Core Business Vocabulary Implementation Guideline provides an introduction to these standards and how to implement.

Standards

• EPCIS 1.1
• Core Business Vocabulary (CBV) 1.1

Artifacts

• EPCIS 1.1 Artifacts (individual files)
• EPCIS 1.1 Artifacts (zip file)

Conformance Requirements

• EPCIS 1.1 Conformance Requirements

Application Standards

• EPCIS for Rail Vehicle Visibility

Implementation Guidelines

• EPCIS and Core Business Vocabulary Implementation Guideline

• Transport and Logistics Industry User Group – Implementation Guide – TLS Pilots