GS1 Sweden

The global language of business

Our vision

“GS1 Sweden simplifies companies’ local and global trade”

Through cooperation,GS1 develops sector-neutral standards and services which enable efficiency improvements in the flow of information and goods.

Our development in Sweden

It all started with barcodes

Our philosophy

GS1 in numbers

A global organisation created in 2005 by the merger of EAN International (1977) and Uniform Code Council (UCC) (1952).

• • • • • More than

years experience

108

member organisations whose customers represent all parts of the value chain Over

one million

companies doing business in

150

countries Over

sectors represented (FMCG, health care, transport, defence, …) Over

5 billion

transactions per day The GS1 system of standards is the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world.

Some of our customers

GS1 Sweden Business value

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Classification – GPC

What is GPC?

To ensure products are classified correctly and uniformly, by using GS1 Global Product Classification (GPC), a system that gives buyers and sellers a common language for grouping products in the same way, everywhere in the world. The official (normative) GPC schema and GPC Browser information is published in Oxford English. Both the schema and the browser information are translated to many other languages. © 2012 GS1 Sweden

GPC – Brick

The foundation of GPC is called a "Brick;" GPC bricks define categories of similar products. Using the GPC brick ensures the correct recognition of the product category across the extended supply chain, from seller to buyer. © 2012 GS1 Sweden

Rubrik

Using GPC hierarchy to find the Brick A Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) can only be assigned to one Brick.

What is the role of GPC?

What is the role of GPC?

GPC gives buyers and sellers a common language to group products the same way globally to ensure effective data synchronisation in the Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN). GPC enables the following processes: • Item Registration • Subscription • Validation • Search • Publication/Subscription Match © 2012 GS1 Sweden

Validoo services

• Validoo Item – Our Data Pool • Validoo Q-lab – Quality assurance on trade item information • Validoo MediaStore – Image publication • Validoo Directory – GLN directory • Validoo BarCodeCheck – Quality assurance on barcodes

Validoo Item

• Part of the Global Data Synchronisation Network - GDSN • Approx.1400 Suppliers • 12 Retailers • Over 100 000 item registered in the data base • Approx. 10-12000 new or updated items every month • Uses GS1 XML for messaging

How to access trade item information?

• Validoo Item – Subscriptions for GPCs or Target Markets – Questions through webservice • Validoo MediaStore – Subscriptions for GPC or Target Markets Validoo Item deliver full trade item hierarchies while Validoo MediaStore deliver only consumer units.

More about GPC

• What is Global Product Classification?

• Get started with Product Classification • Resource Library: (overview, presentations, implementation guide and FAQ etc

http://www.gs1.org/gdsn/gpc/

Contact

Rosie Samuelsson GS1 Sweden Box 1178, Västra Järnvägsgatan 15 111 91 Stockholm Tel +46 (0)8 50 10 10 00 Fax +46 (0)8 50 10 10 01 www.gs1.se