RE: [tgf] Good meeting Last week

["John Borras" <johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk>]

Ted

Thanks for this information.  I'll put a b/f on this to set up a call as you
suggest after we've completed the Primer.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Haas, Ted [mailto:THaas@gs1us.org] 
Sent: 24 February 2011 21:37
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 U=
NCCS and migrating to UNSPSC for all Agencies and programmes as well as the=
ir UNGM site  The whole procurement network will be UNSPSC based in 3-4 yea=
rs.  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 y=
ears. The latter means that oer 80,000 companies will be required to specif=
y their offerings to any part of the UN in UNSPSC in order to become a vali=
dated supplier to the UN.

2)  The PIC Program is moving very well and the pilots are beyond successfu=
l  Doug Bailey (whom I steered to your December workshop in Washington DC) =
visited the WCO last month at their invitation and they were enthusiastic a=
nd supportive of this to the point that Doug was amazed.  We believe they w=
ill want an international pilot. within 18 months.  Doug was also meeting w=
ith GS1 Netherlands and an extension of the flower pilot to include Netherl=
and 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 Netherla=
nds 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 pro=
jected user guide.

This means 2 of the 3 dominant xml messaging solutions use this object OAGI=
S 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 Healt=
h Organization an also Title 21 from the US code  this will give us stone d=
ead 1 to 1 matches for every national formulary on drugs and the FDA requir=
ements.  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 in=
formal 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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