- Eight countries become new subscribers of
EAN Global Office : Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, North Korea, Panama, Syria,
and Uzbekistan.
- A joint EAN committee, the Global Business
Modeling Committee (GBM) formed to develop and maintain generic business models.
- As a subscriber of ECR
Europe Executive Board, EAN is involved in several
ECR projects : Efficient replenishment upstream, Interpretability
of Electronic Catalogues, Efficient unit loads, and
transport optimization.
- The newly established meat supply chain task force
developed the "Application of EAN standards in implementing regulation number
820/97 (of the European Union)" guidelines for the traceability of beef.
- ECR transport optimisation
project endorsed by the EAN System for logistic
and supply processes in its Transport Optimisation
Guideline publication.
- Global Communications Committee (GCC) formed to
promote EANCOM implementation guidelines.
- A working group of EDI experts at
EAN Global Office released a document on the Lite- EDI concept, significantly important for
small players in the market.
- "Electronic Catalogues :
EAN recommendations" document released for interfacing EANCOM messages with the
Catalogue: Price/Sales catalogues (PRICAT), Product Data (PRODAT), and Party Information
(PARTIN).
- EAN Global Office and the UCC release the first
version of the global Automatic Data Capture (ADC) standard manual, the "general
EAN specifications"
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