ECCnet Industry Managed Solutions

Data Excellence

GS1 Canada is recognized as a global leader in data excellence. Quick and convenient access to a primary source of truth for accurate and complete, bilingual product data enables businesses of all size to fuel important business processes. The user community directs the data quality rules and attribute requirements according to industry needs. Brand owners are responsible for loading, verifying or certifying the accuracy of their data, and for updating their data on an ongoing basis to ensure trading partners have continuous access to the most up-to-date product information.

Global Standards

GS1 global standards are the most widely used system of supply chain standards in the world, used by over 2 million companies around the world, including here in Canada. Global standards enable the sharing of consistent, trusted, quality data everywhere across the global supply chain, uniquely identifying products and telling the story behind them - where they originated, what they contain, where they've been and other critical supply chain data. Non-proprietary, global standards-based solutions to support shared industry issues help level the playing field for businesses of all size, and enable visibility to the necessary requirements to meet trading partner and regulatory needs for a variety of important business needs. The bilingual product data and images in ECCnet Registry - Canada's largest, national product registry - are based on GS1 global standards, enabling visibility and traceability throughout the supply chain, as well as brand consistency and interoperability across systems.

Primary Source of Truth

An efficient 'one-to-many' approach for content sharing ensures that brand owners and other providers of data can load standardized content once, then share with multiple trading partners at the same time from a single data source. This ensures accuracy and consistency while saving significant time and resources.

Data Recipients
For data users, quick and convenient access to a primary source of truth for accurate bilingual product data and images from multiple brands and product categories ensures consistency and saves significant time and resources.

Trusted Canadian Industry Expertise

GS1 Canada is a trusted, strategic partner to industry.
Our industry knowledge and expertise has been gained through more than 40 years of industry collaboration and partnership to deliver global standards-based solutions that address shared business needs. As a neutral, not-for-profit association, we collaborate with boards, advisory councils and work groups to develop non-proprietary solutions that provide value to the community, with industry alignment every step of the way.

This expertise and industry collaboration ensures businesses of all sizes can benefit from access to non-propriety solutions that meet Canadian trading partner and regulatory requirements.

Neutral Community Management

GS1 Canada’s industry knowledge and trusted community management role has been developed over more than 25 years of industry partnership.
Through a neutral, community management process, GS1 Canada facilitates collaboration between leaders, experts and stakeholders across multiple industries and sectors to identify shared, industry-wide business issues. With industry-direction and alignment every step of the way, GS1 Canada helps solve these issues through the development and implementation of GS1 global standards.

ECCnet Industry Managed Solutions are developed on a cost-recovery basis to enable subscribers of all size to meet Canadian trading partner and regulatory requirements.

Critical Mass Adoption

Signed industry protocols ensure adoption of non-proprietary industry solutions and compliance within the categories determined by industry. When one standardized, non-proprietary way of working is adopted across the entire supply chain, all trading partners experience simplified business processes, decreased costs, increased quality and efficiency, and greater ease of doing business.

Operational Efficiency

Our standards-based solutions enable businesses to improve speed-to-market, save significant resources and increase consistency by replacing manual, repetitive processes and paperwork with one centralized, non-proprietary industry solution to common non-competitive business process issues. All trading partners across the entire supply chain experience simplified business processes, increased efficiency, decreased costs, increased quality and greater ease of doing business.

Cost-recovery Pricing

As a not-for-profit association, we operate on a cost-recovery basis and our solutions are priced exclusively on the cost to develop and deliver to industry.