Elimination of duplicate systems and processes for sharing data with your trading partners and stakeholders
Provide relevant and required data on applicable products to every single customer or stakeholder, including government, on demand through ECCnet Registry
Cost savings and improved resource deployment, with less staff time spent on administrative functions such as resolving product data, pricing, shipping, and invoice errors
Centralize access to product data for your organization’s internal use and product sell sheets
Enhanced supply chain efficiencies through automation, resulting in reduced manual processes and less paper forms
List your product data one time – data will be validated and cleansed to facilitate its effective use and value by all your trading partners
Immediately share any and all updates or additions to product data with your trading partners
Roll-out – Jumpstart Phase
ECCnet Registry will be the single point of access between healthcare trading partners for exchanging accurate, standardized, perpetually updated product data.
ECCnet Registry will launch in the healthcare sector based on a “Jumpstart” approach – mass loading, by GS1 Canada, of approximately 100,000 GTINs. In collaboration with industry, GS1 Canada will accomplish this mass loading stage by leveraging suitable product information from two existing sets of Canadian healthcare product data currently being utilized by GS1 Canada Carenet members:
a catalogue currently being used by a national distributor
a database created by the Ontario Hospital Association during an Operating Room supply chain project
A minimum set of medical device product data attributes (fields) – consistent with existing Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) healthcare attributes – will be the first set of data required. The following product data attributes will be identified as MS1:
25 mandatory data attributes
26 optional data attributes (Note: each trade item may or may not require all the optional attributes.)
Important Note on Data Validations
For the Jumpstart phase, the validations on MS1 data will be basic data validations – limited automatic system settings that will flag discrepancies such as packaging hierarchy inconsistencies.
For other sectors, at the request of industry, GS1 Canada provides enhanced data validation services that include collaboration tools such as:
GTIN discrepancy reports
sector data audits and score carding
enhanced third party validations
data normalization capability
These data integrity services will not apply to the medical device category during the Jumpstart phase.
Roll-out – Full Use Case Phase
Launch of the full attribute data set and data validation processes in ECCnet Registry will be determined based on industry-identified use cases, data integrity protocol adoption strategies, and timelines. This includes the number of attributes required in the full data set.
A cost recovery model for this full use-case data set will be developed with GS1 Canada Carenet Healthcare Sector Board input, through a transparent process.
Next Steps - Jumpstart Phase
July 2011
Based on the databases leveraged for the Jumpstart phase, GS1 Canada will supply each identified supplier with a file of existing product information. Suppliers will complete any missing information – including assigning the appropriate Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) to each item listed – and verify that all of the data in the file is correct.
This file will contain headings for all 51 MS1 data attributes and, where available, the related information from the existing databases.
In addition to the data file, suppliers will also be provided with an ECCnet Registry Participation Agreement, which must be signed and returned along with the completed data file. This Participation Agreement will establish the process for suppliers’ ongoing loading of their product data to, and maintenance of their data in, ECCnet Registry and the cost associated with having an item in the registry.
September 2011
Suppliers will return the completed and confirmed MS1 data to GS1 Canada.
GS1 Canada will load this data to ECCnet Registry.
Once the initial data set has been loaded to ECCnet Registry, the supplier becomes responsible for ensuring ongoing data accuracy and completeness, and for ensuring that any future changes are captured on a perpetual basis.
Suppliers will begin publishing their MS1 data to their trading partners in ECCnet Registry.
October 2011
Suppliers will complete publishing their MS1 data to their trading partners in ECCnet Registry.
Alternative Loading Methods
As an alternative to being provided with a Jumpstart file:
suppliers may on-board, to ECCnet Registry, existing GDSN data through any GDSN-interoperable data pool, or
suppliers may choose to load to ECCnet Registry directly
Pricing
As GS1 Canada is a not-for-profit association, the costs and operation of ECCnet Registry are based on cost recovery.
Only licenced GS1 Canada members may access ECCnet Registry; therefore, an annual GS1 Canada Licence fee applies. This fee ranges from $500 - $1045, depending of the size of the organization.
Contact GS1 Canada at 1.800.567.7084 ext. 3 or info@gs1ca.org to obtain a licence.
Already a member? Login to MyGS1ca.org for further information.
How to Get Started
Contact GS1 Canada at 1.800.567.7084 ext. 3 or info@gs1ca.org
Data Loading Options
To load your product data to ECCnet Registry, Canada’s healthcare product registry, select one of the following data loading options.
Data Loading Options
Action Items
ECCnet ProSYNC®
Review product data in the Excel file
Verify the data
Add mandatory and optional attributes to the spreadsheet
