NATO Continues to Leverage the GS1 System

GS1 has been working jointly with NATO for approximately 6 years. During this time significant work has been accomplished using the GS1 System.   For example, GS1 Keys have been GSMP World Wide Fall adopted and incorporated into NATO STANAGS or Event Standardized Agreements.  Two business process models weredeveloped, First to track the movement of containers or assetsand the second to improve the logistical arm or movement of supplies through the supply chain.

Once again the two organisations are collaborating to develop a solution using the GS1System which will have a positive impact on the NATO Supply Chain.

Over the years NATO has been utilising the  90 series Application Identifiers within thetransportation section of their supply chain.  Since this time many nations have found a needto employ the 90 series Application Identifiers for other national activities and clearly areunable since they will be in conflict with the NATO agreed definitions.

To further promote the ability to track and trace consignment shipments using the GS1System, NATO has submitted a change request  in the GSMP Process that the 7 NATO definedApplication Identifiers be given permanent assignments.  These Application Identifiers will be incorporated into NATO marking / labeling documents.

Representatives from both NATO and the Barcodes BRG are actively participating in this GSMP NATO Asset Tracking Work Group (ATWG) to qualify the business requirements. 

The GS1 Global Standards Management Process (GSMP) was created to ensure a robust, stable, and timely solution at the end of the production chain. If you want to understand the basic steps involved in the GSMP and the organizational structure utilized to support it, the GSMP Users Manual is your definitive source of information.

Over the past two years we have been working with our community to further improve the GSMP. These improvements are now fully documented in the new release of the GSMP Users Manual.

Some of the improvements include: 

A new BarCodes BRG process  

Enhanements to the GSMP Change Request (CR) process

Clarification of Membership and Voting Rules

Clarification on the roles and responsibilities the Process Managers, Business Unit Managers, Process Group, and Architecture Group.

Re-organization of content to improve readability 

A comprehensive index

We also added new information on the EPC Global standards development process as well as the new GS1 Local Community Network (LCN). 

The GSMP team, the Process Group, and several members of the GSMP community have met over the last several months to create this new release of the manual. After going through a formal public review it was submitted to the BCS for final approval. 

The GSMP team wishes to thank everyone in our community who helped us achieve this significant
milestone. The new GSMP Users Manual can be found on the GSMP website at:
gs1.org/services/gsmp/support/user_manual.html