Nick Manzo, Sr Director Global Industry Development

The Importance of Product Data Management

to Support UDI and Commercial Demands

21 October, 2015 Budapest, Hungary

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GDSN – Healthcare Visual

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Growth of GDSN

• GDSN has seen enormous increase in active subscribers over the past

10 years…increase of 35,000 GLN’s

• Growth has been consistent in Grocery/CPG, but now GDSN is seeing

substantial growth in newer industries to adopt GS1 Standards:

- Healthcare

- Foodservice

• Use of GDSN is not limited to just Business to Business engagement

• Use of GDSN to support regulatory requirements now becoming more

prevalent:

- EU 1169

- UDI

• With GDSN expansion in Healthcare,

expectations are of continued GLN growth

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GDSN: Steady GTIN and GLN Growth

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2,000,000

4,000,000

6,000,000

8,000,000

10,000,000

12,000,000

14,000,000

16,000,000

18,000,000

20,000,000

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5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000

25,000

30,000

35,000

40,000

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

GLNs GTINs2

2011 YE

8.4M

2013YE

13.2M

GLNsGTINs

GTINsGLNs

2010 YE

6.4M

2012 YE

11.9M

2014 YE

34.5K

Source: GDSN, 7.3.2015

As of July 3, 2015GLNS: 35,151GTINS: 17.7M

2014YE

16.1M

GLN adjustment in 2010 due to change in GDSN financial model

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Why is “Unique Device Identification” important?

• Driven by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to

support:

- Patient safety

- Improve product recall process

- Implement a global medical device system

- Create a more secure supply chain

- Reduce counterfeiting

• Expanding globally to:

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• GDSN Healthcare GTIN Counts over 1M

- 870,279 Device GTINs

- 39,831 Pharma GTINs

- 322,552 Other Healthcare GTINs

• 2,788 Healthcare source GLN’s in GDSN

• GDSN Healthcare Resources

- http://www.gs1.org/healthcare/share-data

Healthcare in GDSN

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Large GPO/Provider Recipients in Healthcare

• Novation

• Premier

• Amerinet

• MedAssets

• Kaiser Permanente

• Geisinger

• First Data Bank

• FDA GUDID

• And others…

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TOP 5 US Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO’s) =

$150,000,000,000 in Purchasing

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E-Comm

Sales: Product Attributes: Sample Touch points

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Supply Chain

Marketing

Packaging

Sales

Regulatory

R&D

Consumer Affairs

Master Data

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Seize the Opportunity!

• Data demand is increasing

• It used to be your customers asking, now it is

governments, tomorrow it is your patients…

• Are you prepared

• Treat the care of your product data the same way

you treat the care of your actual products

• View your product data as an asset to be

leveraged, not something that is viewed as a

burden on your business.

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• START NOW!

• Take control…before you lose

control.

• Organizing your processes

• Creating a single source of product

information truth

• Implement a single data distribution

strategy for global commercial and

regulatory compliance

• Developing or establishing a formal

data governance strategy

To get started, 1WorldSync recommends:

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GDSN Major Release 3 benefits

There’s a lot to be excited about:

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Increased speed to marketStandards implementation time reduced from years to weeks

Support for industry-specific functionality

Set data sharing requirements uniquely relevant to your industry

Richer product informationSupports additional attributes like ingredient and allergen information and information for promotional processes

Meeting new regulatory requirements

EU 1169/2011

Improved data qualityIncrease confidence you are sharing accurate product information

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Get Ready: Major Release Resources

• Look for additional resources from sites, including:

Major Release 3: http://www.gs1.org/majorrelease

Migration: http://www.gs1.org/data-migration

• Work with your data pool to implement testing and be

prepared for data migration.

• Get ready for 6 May 2016 – the next level of

GDSN begins!

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