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Driving Business Value with Global Product Classification in Rome

Explore the GS1 Standards at the Spring Event in Rome, Italy, focused on the Global Product Classification (GPC) Standard and Horticultural Updates. Learn about the GPC's four-tier classification system and its impact on supply chain efficiency. Discover key benefits of GPC adoption and how it enhances data accuracy and language consistency. Gain insights into the GPC Foundation and Hierarchy, along with examples of attribute values. Find out about the evolution of GPC translations and releases, and its future work streams. Understand the GPC's role in harmonizing Tariff Codes for traceability. Explore where to access GPC Standards and its expansion into the horticultural sector through a project led by GS1 Netherlands. Learn about the challenges and solutions encountered during the Horticulture Project, highlighting the complexities of classifying diverse horticultural products effectively.

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Driving Business Value with Global Product Classification in Rome

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  1. GS1 Standards Spring Event6 - 10 Oct 2014 – Rome, ItalyBuilding Standards to Deliver Business Value Overview of the GPC Standard and Horticultural Updates Wednesday, 08-October Ben Ensink, GS1 Netherlands Mike Mowad, GS1

  2. GPC Overview Mike Mowad, GS1

  3. 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.

  4. GPC Foundation and Hierarchy Example Bricks Brick Attributes Brick Attribute Values Animal Milk Non Animal Milk Unidentified If Animal Full Fat Low Fat Non Fat Unidentified Level of Fat Claim Milk and Milk Substitutes (Perishable) No Yes Unidentified Organic Claim No Yes Unidentified Probiotic Claim Can be Refrigerated Must be Refrigerated Unidentified Refrigeration Claim

  5. Why GPC? GTIN GPC ITEMReference Code ProductCLASSIFICATION Code WHICH product is it? WHAT product is it? 00910023712823 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

  6. GPC adoption in GDSN Since 2007, GPC adoption has grown in coverage and in implementation (in parallel with the use of GTINs) in GDS

  7. GPC Translations GPC is officially published in Oxford English and is currently translated to 13 other languages • Italian • Japanese • Portuguese • Russian • Serbian • Swedish • Arabic • Chinese • Dutch • Finnish • French • German • Hungarian

  8. GPC Releases Jun2012 Jun2013 Jun2014 Dec2013 Dec2012 GPC Jun-2012 Publication Deployed into the GDSN GPC Dec-2012 Publication Deployed into the GDSN Deployed into the GDSN GPC Jun-2013 Publication GPC Dec-2013 Publication Deployed into the GDSN 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

  9. 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 Organisationfor Economic Co-operation

  10. Where Can I find the GPC Standards? 1. Click here! 2. Click here!

  11. Published Formats Published in 2 formats: Browser-Based Schema (Excel & XML)

  12. GPC Expansion into Horticultural Ben Ensink, GS1 Netherlands

  13. The Horticulture Project • 3 years of development • Most work done by local standards body(Floricode strategic partner GS1.NL) • Quick on decision to use Taxonomy • Quick on decision to leave out cultivars (23.000 different cultivars in Holland) CarolusLinnaeus (1707-1778)

  14. What did we experience? • Product specialists tend to over-classify • Standards experts tend to under-classify • Horticulture is a “Special” sector: • 10’s of thousands different products • Nature is diverse on it’s own • Breeding by humans adds > 1000 cultivars each year • Currently registered: 2000 Genus & 4000 Species

  15. Problems encountered (1) • 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

  16. Problems encountered (2) • 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 • 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

  17. Interested parties • 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

  18. 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

  19. Mike MowadDirector, Global Product Classification & Standards, GS1T +1 (609) 557-4568E michael.mowad@gs1.org Contact Details Ben EnsinkProduct Specialist, GS1 NetherlandsT +31 (0) 20 511 38 20|E Ben.Ensink@gs1.nl

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