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MR3 READINESS CHEAT SHEET

A quick read on the basics of GDSN

MR3 update – deadlines, why it

matters to Consumer Goods / Medical

Device manufacturers, Retailers and

Distributors

GDSN MR3 Basics

The Global Data Synchronization NetworkTM (GDSN) is a global standard of documents used to exchange product related information using data pools (1World Sync is the largest and widely adopted with more than 20 million items from over 17000 brands) as the gateway to syndicate product information to and from trading partners. Major Release 3 (MR3) is the first major release to the standards in over 10 years represents a refresh that allows the data pools to support the demands of the digital age for more product information and digital assets. These include regulatory mandates like the Food and Drug Authority’s (FDA) Unique Device ID (UDI) or the European EU1169 mandate or much needed flexibility, extensibility and control over the data elements, rules and validations involved to industry specific support and data quality controls to simplify exchanging product risk information. Given the depth and breadth of changes that are involved in MR3 – this update is not backward compatible – meaning come May 11th 2016 if you were using a GDSN data pool to syndicate information to publish or subscribe for product information with your trading partners you would not be able to do so unless you update your systems, processes and data to adhere to the revisions specified as part of MR3. If you haven’t yet adopted the GDSN standards to share product information with your trading partners now is the best time to look at it has never been easier to do so with the flexibility, extensibility and support for several regulations / mandates like FDA UDI, EU1169 or IMDRF.

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Key Highlights & Timelines

We could point you to the document center at 1WorldSync which gives you in-depth checklists and related artifacts to determine what has changed for you in detail – but then this wouldn’t be a cheatsheet would it? So in keeping with our promise to make this read worth you while here are the key highlights:

Enhancements to existing attributes and data model; including nutrients, ingredients, allergens, tax, hazardous materials, promotional, packaging and many others

o around 40% or 1182 total GDSN attribute set is impacted – primarily from Core attributes to Flex

o 300 new, 652 changed and 230 deprecated

Added/Updated multiple code lists (new lists, consolidations, etc.) o With introduction of Preliminary trade item that can be used for “Subject to

change” items as a new category this 16 of the currently free form nutritional labels become valid value list that you must now select from.

o Re-assignment of deprecated values (49 of them) that will no longer exist after May 2016

o About 224 new rules have been introduced while changes to 13 current rules and deprecating 3.

GPC Class structure changes o Introduction of Context or segments which provides much needed flexibility

over the currently defined rigid GPC brick structure of Family Class Brick

Changed Unit of Measure to use UN/ECE Rec 20 code list Enhanced support for multiple language support

Multiple updates to Validations with XML validation rules

GDSN Timelines (referenced from GS1 & 1WorldSync respectively)

From a 1WS migration standpoint here is what the timelines look like

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Why Riversand

We are an innovative leader in Master Data Management (MDM) and Product Information Management (PIM). We are highly rated by Gartner, Forrester, LNC group and our GDSN offering is catered for RAPID deployment in both cloud as well as on premise. Our modular solution approach and delivery methodology caters to the philosophy of “start small and deliver quick value” for MR3 compliance and subsequently evolve for other enterprise PIM and MDM needs in the future. Riversand MDMCenter is the first multi domain MDM and PIM solution to be GDSN Major Release 3 certified, which would help in effective collaboration trading partners while streamlining product introduction.

Key Features

Riversand Technologies Inc. is a global leader in Product Information Management (PIM) and

Multidomain Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions. Industry leaders such as Nordstrom, Bed,

Bath & Beyond, VF Corporation, SC Johnson, Ingersoll Rand and Siemens use Riversand Solutions for

synchronizing data across various enterprise systems to achieve accurate product, vendor and customer

information. Our PIM solution easily scales to millions of items and thousands of attributes and is

Certified for GDSN’s MR3 for your product data syndication needs.

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