RE: [tgf] Good meeting Last week

[Peter F Brown <peter@peterfbrown.com>]

Ted:
Thanks for this really useful update and the good news.
I am finishing the long haul on the formal first draft today and will have
this sent out to the TC tomorrow as planned.

All the best,
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Haas, Ted [mailto:THaas@gs1us.org] 
Sent: Thursday, 24 February, 2011 13:37
To: tgf@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [tgf] Good meeting Last week

Cheers All,
It was a fine meeting last Thursday.  The pace and progress are amazing in a
good way.

Some updates in our part of the world.

1)  We have confirmation from The UN Secretariat that they are abandoning
UNCCS and migrating to UNSPSC for all Agencies and programmes as well as
their UNGM site  The whole procurement network will be UNSPSC based in 3-4
years.  The Secretariat and the Global marketplace (GM) will go this year
and the other agencies will be mandated to become compliant over the next
few years. The latter means that oer 80,000 companies will be required to
specify their offerings to any part of the UN in UNSPSC in order to become a
validated supplier to the UN.

2)  The PIC Program is moving very well and the pilots are beyond successful
Doug Bailey (whom I steered to your December workshop in Washington DC)
visited the WCO last month at their invitation and they were enthusiastic
and supportive of this to the point that Doug was amazed.  We believe they
will want an international pilot. within 18 months.  Doug was also meeting
with GS1 Netherlands and an extension of the flower pilot to include
Netherland imports to The US seems an easy way to get the WCO into the boat
so to speak.  There probably will be another pilot from South America to
Netherlands to make this global in flavor.

3) we have had some talks with OAGIS from the Open Applications Group  and
thy are going to conform an object that is the same as in the PIc Guidance
report. UNSPSC code GOC codes and Gtin and will provide a user guide or
projected user guide.

This means 2 of the 3 dominant xml messaging solutions use this object OAGIS
and RosettaNet.  We will talk to UnCefact about ebxml in 2012.

4) We are getting ready to do a Pharma segment review as well as a Medical
devices review We will align our segment to Mirror ATC from The World Health
Organization an also Title 21 from the US code  this will give us stone dead
1 to 1 matches for every national formulary on drugs and the FDA
requirements.  We will also use Title 21 series 8 for the Medical devices.


I think after the primer is completed and we have time to breath that an
informal call would help for me to provide increased visibility on our world
and how we can provide leverage to this endeavor.


Regards,
Ted Haas
Standards Coordinator UNSPSC
www.unspsc.org<http://www.unspsc.org>
623-478-2745
Ted Haas
Standards Coordinator UNSPSC
www.unspsc.org
623-478-2745

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