How do I obtain the Entry-Level Certificate ?
What is Traceability?
Why do we need Traceability?
Why has GS1 developed a global Traceability Standard?
Who has developed the GS1 Traceability Standard?
What is the GS1 Traceability Standard?
What is the value of the GS1 Traceability Standard?
How do I obtain the Entry-Level Certificate ?:
Passing the Tests of the 7 Entry-Level modules with a 100% passing rate will set the conditions in LEARN to generate your Certificate at the next run. The certificate is printed at GS1 in Brussels (Belgium), authorised and authentication. It is then sent to the local GS1 organisation for further authentication and hand-over.
What is Traceability?:
Traceability is the ability to trace the history, application or location of that which is under consideration. (ISO 9001: 2000)
Why do we need Traceability?:
Increasingly, the ability to trace materials and products up and down the supply chain has become an integral part of doing business. One traditional use has been to identify and locate unsafe foods or pharmaceuticals and remove them from commerce.
Later, track and trace systems have been used to validate the presence or absence of attributes important to consumers (e.g., organic foods, non-allergenic cosmetics). Traceability has also become one tool in fighting product counterfeiting and protecting brands. Most recently, traceability of foods has become a regulatory requirement to protect against bioterrorism.
Traceability can be used for these specific objectives as well as a tool to assess other business systems and tools such as:
- Quality Management
- Risk Management
- Information Management
- Logistical Flows
- Commercial Advantage
- Evaluation of Management Demands
Why has GS1 developed a global Traceability Standard?:
Safety, security and traceability are currently at the forefront of both government regulations and industry concerns around the world. As a result, numerous irreconcilable track and trace solutions have been proposed to the national, regional and global supply chain participants. The cost of diverse government regulations, proprietary service offerings and incompatible commercial solutions to the consumers, companies and the global supply chain called for defining traceability as a business process, which is supported by voluntary business standards that are accepted around the world.
To further develop our capability to assist consumers, businesses and governments worldwide, GS1 has defined traceability as a business process and produced a global Traceability Standard, which links it to enabling technologies and relevant GS1 System tools.
Who has developed the GS1 Traceability Standard?:
An Industry Requirements Team, working within the GS1 Global Standards Management Process framework, developed the Standard in 2005. The Team was composed of 73 experts from 18 countries, including representatives of Allied Domecq, Albertsons, BASF, Carrefour, Casino, CIES, CPMA, Daymon, Dole, ECR Europe, FMI, General Mills, Glon, GMA, GS1, Imaje, John Deere Food Origins, Metler Toledo, mpXML, Nestlé, NTT Data Corp, P&G, Safeway, Syngenta, Target, TraceTracker, Tyson Foods, Verisign, Wal-Mart and Wegmans amongst others.
What is the GS1 Traceability Standard?:
The GS1 Traceability Standard is a business process standard describing the traceability process independently from the choice of enabling technologies. It defines minimum requirements for companies of all sizes across industry sectors and corresponding GS1 Standards used within information management tools.
The Standard maximises the use of globally established and implemented GS1 System tools that uniquely identify any “traceable item”, describe the creation of accurate records of transactions, and provide for fast data communication about the traceable item between trading partners.
It meets the core legislative and business need to cost-efficiently trace back (one step down) and track forward (one step up) at any point along the whole length of the supply chain, no matter how many trading partners and business process steps are involved and how many national borders have been crossed.
What is the value of the GS1 Traceability Standard?:
GS1 has succeeded in producing a global business agreement on generic requirements and a common way to describe the traceability process, while taking into account differences imposed by diverse legislative and business requirements and diverging expectations in terms of enabling technologies.
While businesses recognize the value of traceability, they do not want multiple, potentially conflicting, traceability systems, and they do not want to increase costs unnecessarily. Businesses also recognize that an individual company is only one partner in the supply chain, and that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. So they want a system that could easily be adopted by just about everyone in the supply chain.
The GS1 Traceability Standard addresses these business needs, we believe, in the following ways:
- It is based on existing business practices, and there is no need to purchase, create or integrate new systems.
- It uses a common language, the GS1 System of identification and bar coding, as well as GS1 EANCOM® and GS1 XML messaging.
- It is, therefore, broad-based in that GS1 Standards are used in over 150 countries around the world by a large majority of supply chain partners (there are over 1 million GS1 user companies).
- It takes a global approach, addressing the supply chain as a whole rather than any particular individual partner.
- It is thorough, covering the fundamentals of traceability – identification, data capture and management, links management, and communication.
- It focuses on the interfaces of physical flow of materials and products, establishing an open, global relationship between independent partners.
- It is flexible, recognizing that circumstances vary within and between sectors, and thus providing for tailored applications.
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