In alignment with Canadian industry requirements to support data completeness and data accuracy, we are implementing the following updates to Item Centre:

• Alignment of Global Product Codes (GPC) with global standards.
• Update to the Hazard Rating System (WHMIS) Class Code. The “whmisCode” will be replaced by “hazardRatingSystemWHMISclassCode”.

We are implementing the following updates to Product Certification:

• Updates to comply with AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005).
• Updates to align with planned attribute and standards enhancements for ECCnet Registry, noted in Item Centre updates above.
• The naming of certain eCommerce attributes have been updated:
  • “Box Contents” to “Net Content Statement”
  • “Advertised Origin” to “Origin Statement”
  • “Size” and “Size UOM” to “Individual Size” and “Individual Size UOM”
  • “Product Claims” to “On-pack Product Claims”
• The eCommerce product content certification window has been reduced from 30 days to 15 days, after which your product content will be available to trading partners.
• Other minor bug fixes and performance enhancements.

The following updates to Recall have been implemented as of Monday, May 31, 2021:

• Recall Ready Status Page
  • To improve visibility to users’ Recall Ready Status and associated dates, a Recall Ready section has been built which will provide real time updates on the Recall Ready Status, issue and expiry dates, call-to-action if the certificate is expired and an option to download applicable certificates to satisfy trading partner requirements.
• Roll Up Reporting
  • Users now have the ability to consolidate retailer reporting data and make it visible back to the brand owners (reverse reporting). The access per trading partner can be customized by the receivers as necessary.
  • This enhancement eliminates the need for retailers to manually extract reports and ensures real-time updates are available to recall initiators, improving the overall speed to complete a recall.
• Recall Change Logs
  • Users now have access to a comprehensive change log, highlighting the specific fields that have changed and require attention.
• Abbreviated Internal Recall Distribution
  • Retailers can create short version of recalls with distribution limited to their internal locations in order to eliminate time required to complete attributes that may not be required for internal distribution, such as brand owner distribution areas, quantities shipped across the country, etc.
• Recall and Incident Reporting will be fully compliant to AODA WCAG 2.0 AA requirements.
  • This ensures that Recall complies with the AODA regulatory requirements and users with accessibility needs are able to perform the intended actions within Recall and Incident Reporting with minimal or no external assistance.
• Minor bug fixes and performance enhancements to allow for growing distribution needs to ensure the application SLAs are in accordance with our commitment to our subscribers.

The following updates to ECCnet Locations have been implemented as of Monday, May 31, 2021:

• Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
  • Subscribers of ECCnet Locations can now record the LEI number against each GLN within their organizational hierarchy. This provides visibility and look up capability to trading partners to efficiently drive associated business processes.
• Food Licence Number
  • Food licence number is issued by the CFIA under the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations. These licence numbers can now be recorded against any location and will enable subscribers to cross reference the two identifiers where needed.

The following updates to ECCnet Registry were implemented as of Monday, May 17, 2021:

• Conversion from optional to mandatory for Hazard Rating System (WHMIS) Class Code attributes for pharmacy products.
• Alignment with global standards to enable data synchronization with global trading partners.
• Alignment of Global Product Codes (GPC) with global standards.

*Updates to ProSYNC were performed to align with these changes.

The following updates to Product Certification were implemented as of Monday, March 8, 2021:

• New GS1 Canada Administrator capability to delist a complete eCommerce catalogue in Product Certification in 5 minutes, instead of 7-10 business days.
• Updated Most Recent Version logic, ensuring the correct number of records are shown in the search result and product data report.
• User Interface Updates:
  1. All attributes are aligned and indented correctly; mandatory attributes show (*) next to the attribute label.
  2. Implemented consistent drop-down selection for all multiple selection dropdowns.
• Minor bug fixes and performance enhancements.