As per http://www.gs1.org/docs/gpc/gpc_unspcs_integration_update.pdf , GPC is going to be integrated with UNSPSC. That’s probably understandable since definitely all the companies don’t want to invest effort twice to product classification. Well, since that’s going to happen by end of 2007, GPC Clouds are perhaps still applicable for a while.
March 15, 2007
March 13, 2007
UNSPSC Clouds
Tag clouds have become popular in Web 2.0 and social networking. Similar ideas are also entering into the enterprise applications. How would representing unspsc codes look like as clouds? The answer to that is available at enterprise clouds. Direct link is unspsc clouds.
March 8, 2007
GPC similar to UNSPSC?
UCCNet used to use UDEX codes for product categorization in their product messages. After getting merged with Transora and formed 1Sync, UDEX is being slowly phased out to use GPC (Global Product Classification). Looking at GPC, it’s coding seems to be similar to UNSPSC as they also have segments, families and classes. However, GPC’s 4th level is called Bricks (and Brick codes) while for UNSPSC it’s Commodity.
However, one main different with GPC is that the brick codes are also supposed to define characteristics of the products belonging to those brick codes. GPC includes this standard for the product characteristics and that’s good to be part of the product exchange message. Ofcourse, writing software to get this right on both the seller and buyer side is quite challenging.
March 6, 2007
UNSPSC v9.0501 : A few statistics
I wanted to update the stats for v9.0501
* No of segments : 55 (remains same from earlier)
* No of families : 419 (up from 363)
* No of classes : 2551 (up from 2125)
* No of commodities : 21718 (up from 19038)
* Avg commodities per class : 8.5 (reduced from close to 9)
* Class with max commodities: Antibiotics (51101500) contains a total of 93 commodities (up from 92)
* Family with max commodities: Measuring and observing and testing instruments (41110000) contains a total of 638 commodities
* Segment with max commodities: Medical Equipment and Accessories and Supplies (42000000) contains a total of 2517 commodities
