Transcript Overview of the GPC Standard and Horticultural Updates
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Overview of the GPC Standard and Horticultural Updates Wednesday, 08-October Ben Ensink, GS1 Netherlands Mike Mowad, GS1
GPC Overview
Mike Mowad, GS1
What is GPC?
• Gives buyers and sellers a common language for grouping (or categorising) products in the same way, everywhere in the world • Rules-based, four-tier classification system for grouping products: Segment , Family , Class , and Brick (with attributes and attribute values ). • Improves the GDSN data accuracy and integrity, speeds up the supply chain's ability to react to consumer needs, and contributes to breaking down language barriers. 3
Example
GPC Foundation and Hierarchy
Bricks
Milk and Milk Substitutes (Perishable)
Brick Attributes If Animal Level of Fat Claim Organic Claim Probiotic Claim Refrigeration Claim Brick Attribute Values
Animal Milk Non Animal Milk Unidentified Full Fat Low Fat Non Fat Unidentified No Yes Unidentified No Yes Unidentified Can be Refrigerated Must be Refrigerated Unidentified 4
Why GPC?
GTIN
ITEM
Reference Code
WHICH product is it?
00910023712823 GPC
Product
CLASSIFICATION
Code
WHAT product is it? 10005788
A codified key - provides a unique, international and non ambiguous way to identify an item Grouping GTINs into the same category (GPC bricks) following common rules in a specific goal Each GTIN is electronically linked to a unique GPC brick code The GPC brick code is a mandatory data in GDSN 5
13,000,000
GPC adoption in GDSN GPC adoption in GDSN
(Aug-2013) Since 2007, GPC adoption has grown in coverage and in implementation (in parallel with the use of GTINs) in GDS
GPC Brick Codes passed through GDSN
11,000,000 9,000,000 7,000,000 5,000,000 3,000,000 1,000,000 GPC brick code 1 6
GPC Translations
GPC is officially published in Oxford English and is currently translated to 13 other languages • Arabic • Chinese • Dutch • Finnish • French • German • Hungarian • Italian • Japanese • Portuguese • Russian • Serbian • Swedish 7
GPC Releases
• • GPC uses a “Consolidated Release” strategy to publish twice per year, (every June & December) Each GPC release is implemented into GDSN 6 months after publication Jun 2012
GPC Jun-2012 Publication
Dec 2012
Deployed into the GDSN GPC Dec-2012 Publication
Jun 2013
Deployed into the GDSN GPC Jun-2013 Publication
Dec 2013
Deployed into the GDSN GPC Dec-2013 Publication
Jun 2014
Deployed into the GDSN
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GPC Future Work Streams:
Harmonisation of Tariff Codes (HTC)
HTC typically used to determine the cost of goods that cross international borders - can also be used for traceability Opportunity for GPC to be leveraged to provide more granularity by providing contextual product information - useful for Government agencies and Customs
MOU Organisation for Economic Co-operation
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Where Can I find the GPC Standards?
1. Click here!
2. Click here!
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Published Formats
Published in 2 formats: 1. Browser-Based 2. Schema (Excel & XML) 11
GPC Expansion into Horticultural
Ben Ensink, GS1 Netherlands
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The Horticulture Project
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3 years of development
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Most work done by local standards body
(Floricode
strategic partner GS1.NL) •
Quick on decision to use
Taxonomy
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Quick on decision to
leave out cultivars
(23.000 different cultivars in Holland)
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) 17
What did we experience?
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Product specialists tend to
over
-classify
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Standards experts tend to
under
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Horticulture is a
“Special”
sector: -classify
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10’s of thousands different products
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Nature is diverse on it’s own
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Breeding by humans adds > 1000 cultivars each year
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Currently registered: 2000 Genus & 4000 Species 18
Problems encountered (1)
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Application of “
same product
” – cut flower, plant, cut green (decoration)
Colour
– – – nature has so many nuances of colours!
which colour system best suits the purpose?
conversion tables RHS RGB Pantone
GPC colours Taxonomy
versus common names and synonyms
+ -/-
=
Genus & Species = Worldwide = Latin Latin not familiar One as description, other as definition common names can be translated 19
Problems encountered (2)
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Distinction between potted & garden plants?
– – – In- / Out-door depends on geographical position In stead use
brick attributes
(in-, out-door, both) Split family “live plants” in 2 because >100 genus
GPC limit
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Too many different genus-species combinations – Direct efforts to ‘
main stream
’ products (world-turnover > 0,1 %) and create “others” for rest – Under populate enough to allow future expansions Only develop new families when business needs it
Bulbs,Seeds,Trees
Later
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Interested parties
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AFIFnet
(Assoc. Flower Import Florida) •
US Dep. of Agriculture
(fytosanitary import check) •
EU-Brussels & COPA/Cogeca
(customs & statistics / alternative for GN codes Nomenclature) •
Union Fleurs
(Association Floricultural Wholesale Org’s) •
Lei & Wageningen University
(for Market Intelligence) •
Dutch Floricultural sector
(Auction, Trade, Retail, Floricode, Fair trade label “Max Havelaar” ) •
Brazilian Government
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Learnings
• We encountered
technical limits
in numbering of GPC class codes and had to split up “Live Plants” into 2 classes • Advice In the future, look to expand the limits of the numbering assignment (if more sectors require it ) • Technical limits required substantial rework later in the process • Advice Large GPC expansions needs to have a “technical limits” review early in the process • Ensure that Global stakeholders are involved from the beginning
Large GPC expansion projects should always have a follow-up learnings review as part of the process
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Contact Details
Mike Mowad
Director, Global Product Classification & Standards, GS1 T +1 (609) 557-4568 E [email protected]
Ben Ensink
Product Specialist, GS1 Netherlands T +31 (0) 20 511 38 20| E [email protected]