The digital era has fostered information transfer between two systems but the communication flaws have led to information loss. For example; Product Information shared between manufacturers and retailers. Manufacturers often communicate about new Products or changes to existing Products, Price information changes to retailers manually and in an ad hoc manner, leading to the data quality and integrity issues in key retail systems. These problems result in revenue loss and dissatisfied consumers.
Considering these challenges in mind, GDSN (Global Data Synchronization Network) evolved as a key data synchronization mechanism in Product Information domain. IBM Info Sphere MDM Collaborative Edition, a compelling offering from IBM for Product Information Management, leverages GDSN and provides out-of-the-box capabilities that enable trading partners to globally share trusted product data automatically. This blog is focused on GDS, inner workings of GDS, associated concepts and the GDS component in IBM MDM Collaborative Edition.
Business Scenario
One of the global water quality solution providers for residential/industrial settings had data governance issues where information was scattered across multiple regions. InfoTrellis provided them Global Data Synchronization solution to have synchronized product information across regions and retailers. This really helped business in overcoming their revenue loss which eventually led to satisfied customers.
GDS Overview
Global data synchronization (GDS) is an ongoing business process that enables continuous exchange of data between trading partners and ensures sharing of synchronized information between them at any point in time. Each organization, Supplier or a Retailer, needs to join a data pool certified and tested by GS1.
Associated Concepts:
Trading Partners – Party who is either a manufacturer or retailer of products or both are considered as trading partners.
Subscriptions – A subscription is a message that establishes a request for trade item information for a trading partner who is receiving the data on a continuous basis.
GS1 messages – GS1 is the global organization responsible for the design and implementation of global standards and solutions to improve efficiency and visibility in the supply and demand chains across sectors. The GS1 system of standards is the most widely used supply-chain standards system in the world.
Global Location Number (GLN) – A global location number (GLN) is a unique 13-digit number that is used to identify a trade location. The first 7 digits represent the company prefix. The next 5 digits represent the trade location, and the last digit is the check digit.
Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) – A global trade item number (GTIN) is a unique 14-digit number that is used to identify trade products. The first 13 digits represent the product reference number and the last digit is the check digit.
GDS Flow – GDS works based on a publish/subscribe model. The supplier is required to publish the product information to a data pool, and the data pool then matches the published data to known subscribers of the data.
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