GS1 Standards Development Event Autumn 2009 Hosted by Name of Session: LCN Time of Session: Tues 27 Oct, Who May Attend: Everyone Interested in LCN, GS1 Member Organizations Speaker: GDSN EPS WG Members & Guests

Moving forward together, to better serve your business ©2009 GS1 2 Agenda Report on LCN recommendations from last Physical Meeting Local code lists

Report on Recommendations on LCN at last Physical Meeting

Moving forward together, to better serve your business ©2009 GS1 4 Recommendations on LCN at last Physical Meeting Recommendation: Improve communication of feedback impact Ensure closure on feedback Confirm feedback clearly communicated back to BRG / WG Communicate feedback impact and consequences back to LCN 2009 LCN Report posted Action Item in LCN Liaisons court –provide comments & feedback

Moving forward together, to better serve your business ©2009 GS1 5 Recommendations on LCN at last Physical Meeting Recommendation: Define plan to capture MOs key needs in 2 step model (2 way dialogue) Sep 2009 question on which topic / group / CR & WO is of particular interest to local companies GS1 Australia - eCom BRG, eCom Technology Group, EPC global, GDSN, Data Accuracy, GPC BRG Action Item in LCN Liaisons court - provide comments & feedback Comment from GS1 France: add enumerated list of groups

Moving forward together, to better serve your business ©2009 GS1 6 Recommendations on LCN at last Physical Meeting Recommendation: Institutionalize LCN standing agenda item across board New Global Agenda captures all CR/WOs in all groups Action Item in LCN Liaisons court provide comments & feedback All GS1 SD Managers and Staff made aware

Moving forward together, to better serve your business ©2009 GS1 7 Recommendations on LCN at last Physical Meeting Recommendation: Raise LCN level of importance Persuade MO decision makers and supporting staff of LCNs relevance Capture and address MOs key concerns / interests Concrete plan to realize goal GS1 Organizational Effectiveness (OE) provides the opportunity LCN is positioned as a key process

Moving forward together, to better serve your business ©2009 GS1 8 LCN Recommends Change Recommendation: Resolve representation dilemma LCN designed to bring community to table New MOs participate but without registering community GS1 Organizational Effectiveness (OE) provides the opportunity LCN is positioned as a key process

Local Code Lists

Moving forward together, to better serve your business ©2009 GS1 10 Local Code Lists What are local code lists? Open text fields in the global standards that are restricted to a local set of code lists by the defined target market Objective The visibility and management of local code list values A comprehensive, easily accessible way to present local code list values

Contact Details Melanie Kudela Director of Global Standards GS1 Global Office T W E