Publishing abroad

Using My Product Manager, you can publish to recipients outside of Belgium and Luxembourg. This is done via the GS1 GDSN network.
The following is important in this respect:

Under land of sale in the product sheet itself, specify the countries where you have GDSN recipients.
- At all times make sure you also add Belgium, which is required for the validation rules.
- We carry out few to no validations for other target markets. The reason being that most of our fields run in sync and that their data models change, same as our own, something for which we are not sent notifications.
Most fields are the same for all countries, but some are specific to the target market.
You can easily find them using our search bar with the keyword ‘target market’.
Save your product sheets and also edit them in the other applicable levels of the hierarchy.
Is the entire hierarchy ready? Then release it.
Go to the ‘My Publications’ tab and republish the hierarchy.
The next day, check the GDSN feedback in the ‘My Products’ tab. Based on the feedback, you will know which data retailers still require.

Here are a few target market-specific details:

The Netherlands

The Netherlands runs a data quality programme for food products and pharmacy products. For other sectors too, where consumer data are important, we will be launching audit programs over the years ahead.
Further details about the program and the registration to be carried out if you are under obligation to take part are available from the GS1 Netherlands website.

France

You can send product information to the French market via GS1 GDSN. The GS1 France website has guidelines with target market and sector-specific information.
In France, GS1 also uses GDSN-controlled pricing notifications. This is not supported My Product Manager. However, check out GS1-certified datapools which do offer this functionality.
Here you can choose either of 2 options in the French datapools.

You opt for free access to the networks whereby you enter the product data on these platforms (= not connected to My Product Manager).
Please note that you will need a GLN to do so that is different from the one you are using in My Product Manager. You can create a new GLN via My Locations Manager.
You choose to set-up a connection to My Product Manager, which usually does involve an extra fee. This enables you to manage and publish the data from My Product Manager and to forward the pricing information in a separate channel in the French datapool.

Germany

In Germany the datapool has an in-built data quality portal. This checks all products that are sent to their target market to determine whether or not a data quality check is required. This check is performed based on various parameters.

If you receive a REVIEW message via the GDSN feedback saying ’This item has not been DQX approved’, you are required to take part in the quality program to pass on the information to your German recipients.
Further details about the program and how to register if you are under obligation to take part are available from the GS1 Germany website, as well as from the data model.

Common errors
Since the error messages are in English, we recommend switching the interface to English to help resolve them more easily.

Error	Action
ERROR - 321244: Please populate "GHS". This indication is mandatory.	Tab 'Statement/Claims': Fields in the set ‘Regulatory information’: - Regulatory permit identification: "False" or ‘True’ -Regulation compliance indicator: ‘True’ - Regulatory Agency: "UN" - Regulatory Act: "GHS" Add true if dangerous goods rules are applicable to your product. don’t forget to use sets through ‘add new’ to differentiate this information from other information in this set.
WARNING - BD7: URL: URL van een afbeelding, 62	Tab: Images and documents Field: n.a. it’s the image himself (metadata) Add images with correct size cfr. global instructions. You can use our checklist.
ERROR - 321004: Please populate "Is Base Price Declaration Relevant". This indication is mandatory, if "Is Returnable Asset Empty" is not set to "True" and if no "Discontinued Date Time" was indicated.	Tab ‘Delivery Purchasing’ Field: Is Base Price Declaration Relevant Complete with true or false.
ERROR - 321606: Please populate "Contact Name Of Distributor". This indication is mandatory.	Tab: Contact Information Field: Contact Type Code Use code BZL instead of CXC. If item is for belux and other countires add twice the information. Once with BZL and once with CXC. This is due to the fact only the Benelux uses the code CXC for the contact information on the label.
ERROR - 621707: Please populate "VAT". This indication is mandatory, if no "Discontinued Date Time" was indicated.	Tab ‘Taxes’ Field: Tax Type Code Use code VAT Agency Type code is 294 (for Austria)
ERROR - 621708: Please populate "Dangerous Goods". This indication is mandatory, if no "Discontinued Date Time" was indicated.	Tab ‘Dangerous goods’ Fields in the set 'Regulated transportation'
ERROR - H621700: Please populate "Internal Item ID Of Supplier" at least once in each hierarchy. This indication is mandatory, if "Discontinued Date Time" was not indicated on the highest item level.	Tab ‘Identification’ Field: Additonal trade product identification'. Add the internal number of the product + choose in the second field the code ‘Supplier_assigned' .
ERROR - SC-E-001: Please populate "DPG Item". Rule applies for the indicated "Global Product Classification: GPC Brick" or the indicated "Regulation Type Code".	Tab ‘Packaging’ Field: Packaging Refund Obligation Nam Enter DPG or NOT_DPG
ERROR - 321013: Please populate "Biocide". This indication is mandatory.	Tab ‘Statement/Claims’ Fields in the set ‘Regulatory information' - regulationType = BIOCIDE_REGULATION - Regulation compliance indicator = NOT_APPLICABLE or TRUE *don’t forget to use sets through ‘add new’ to differentiate this information from other information in this set.
ERROR - 640005: Please populate "Class". This indication is mandatory if "Is Trade Item A Consumer Unit" is equal to "true" and "E Numbers: Level Of Containment" is indicated and does not equal "FREE_FROM".	Tab ‘Content’ Fields in set ‘Additive Information’ - Additive Name - Additive Level of Containment (tab Content) Additive name = naam van het additief, bv. ‘ANTIOXIDANT’. Additive level Of Containment = bv. CONTAINS
ERROR - 321506: Please populate "Organic Certification Body", This indication is mandatory because "Organic Origin" is set to "2" or "6".	Tab ‘Certificaten’ Volg de instructies voor biologische producten
ERROR - SC-E-001: Please populate "Regulation Type Code". Rule applies for the indicated "Global Product Classification: GPC Brick" or the indicated "Regulation	Tab ‘Statement/Claims’ Fields in the set ‘Regulatory information' - regulationType = FOOD_INFORMATION_REGULATION *don’t forget to use sets through ‘add new’ to differentiate this information from other information in this set.
WARNING - 640003: Please populate "Registration Number Packaging Register". This indication is mandatory if "Packaging Type Code" does not equal "NE" and "DPG Item" does not equal "true" and "Is Packaging Marked Returnable" is equal to "false".	Tab ‘Statement/Claims’ Fields in the set ‘Regulatory information' - regulatoryPermitIdentification = <RegisterNumber> (register to this agency) - regulatoryAct = VerpackG **don’t forget to use sets through ‘add new’ to differentiate this information from other information in this set.
ERROR - 321373: Please populate "Platform Terms And Conditions". Rule applies to items that are marked as a non GTIN-coded pallet.	Tab ‘Packaging' Field: Pallet disposition code Choose from list
ERROR - 621704: Please populate "Transport Stacking Factor". This indication is mandatory because "Platform Type Code" is given.	Tab ‘Pallet information’ Fields in the set ‘Stacking’ - Stacking factor: amount of pallets you may stack on eachother - stacking factor type code = type of transport add same info as in non-gtin pallet info
ERROR - 321371: The trade item is marked as a pallet, but the pallet information "Platform Terms And Conditions" is missing.	Tab ”Packaging” Fields in the set “ PackagingInformation” -“Pallet type code” Indicates whether the described despatch unit is delivered on a pallet/platform and on which type of platform. If the despatch unit is delivered on a platform, the platform type must be stated here. The range of platform types/codes is listed in codes. -“Pallet disposition code” Indicates whether the platform in the prescribed pallet configuration is rented, exchangeable, against deposit or one way (not reusable).

Denmark

Denmark is one of the first EU countries to implement legislation on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

This regulation requires the availability of detailed packaging data throughout the entire value chain. Therefore, GS1 Denmark has developed the GS1Trade Packaging platform. Through this platform, you can manage and share detailed packaging data for products sold in Denmark in a structured and efficient way, enabling the legally required reporting to the Danish authorities. Currently, this platform is not yet connected to GS1 GDSN, but they are working on it, to achieve this.

Are you a supplier working with Danish retailers?

For standard product data, you can use GS1 GDSN to exchange this information. If you are asked to provide detailed information for packaging material reporting, you will need to contact GS1 Denmark to gain access to the GS1Trade Packaging platform.

Other countries

You can ask the data recipient you are publishing to which information they still need and in which GDSN fields they expect this information.

If the GDSN name is known, you can easily look it up in our data model and find the name in My Product Manager.