GS1 Canada Supplier Excellence Checklist for Foodservice
GS1 Canada has long-standing partnerships with data recipients and data providers across Canada, supporting industry across business processes - including new product listing, menu planning, recipe development and wellness programs through rich nutritional and allergen information. This enables digital visibility of marketing information, facilitating ecommerce and simplifying product withdrawal and recall processes.
Canadian industry requests that all national brand products listed with data recipients achieve the minimum content readiness with GS1 Canada's ECCnet Industry Managed Solutions.
We invite you to review and leverage this Supplier Excellence Checklist to ensure you can continue to work effectively with your trading partners to provide your customers with your brands in store, online and anywhere your products are found.
Completing the steps below will ensure your active listings with your trading partners are optimized.
Follow these steps:
Step 1: Become a GS1 Canada Subscriber
A GS1 Canada subscription is the first step towards meeting your trading partners' content requirements for accurate and standardized product information and images.
Step 2: Identify Your Products
Follow the steps here to assign Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs) to your products and create barcodes with GS1 Canada's Barcode Generator tool.
Step 3: Register for ProSYNC
- Log into myGS1 (Login is required. Document link opens in new tab.) using your login credentials.
- Click on “Register for ProSYNC” or select “ProSYNC” from My Tools on the myGS1 landing page to access the service.
- Complete the steps that appear on the screen.
If you use a Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) data pool or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to load product data, these options also support the loading and management of data in ECCnet Registry, via the ProSYNC tool.
Find out more about your content loading options.
- Load your product information
- Log into to myGS1 (Login is required. Document link opens in new tab.) and select the data loading platform ProSYNC, from My Tools.
- From the ProSYNC landing page, select Add New GTIN and follow the screen prompts to guide product data entry.
- Save and Approve the product information.
- Contact ECCnetSupport@gs1ca.org for additional assistance, if needed.
- Via email you will receive mandatory catalogue certification education modules to complete.
- Obtain Foodservice Certification (FS3) *
- Foodservice products require FS3 certification to meet foodservice data requirements prior to publication.
- To obtain FS3 certification, load up to ten GTINs into ProSYNC and select foodservice as your channel of distribution.
- Email ECCnetSupport@gs1ca.org to request FS3 certification. GS1 Canada will work with you to ensure your catalogue is FS3 certified based on the completeness and compliance of the data loaded. Your catalogue can have more than one business sector certification.
- For more information on the FS3 certification requirements, click here (Login is required. Document link opens in new tab.).
- * Important Note: This process will be updated in 2022. Your organization will be made aware of the new process in advance of it being in place.
- Publish your product information to your trading partners.
- Once your catalogue is FS3 certified, the last steps is to publish your catalogue to foodservice trading partners.
- To add trading partners, click on the trading partner tab in myGS1 and select the name of the trading partners with whom you want to share your product information.
- Follow these steps (Document link opens in new tab.) to publish your information to your trading partners.
Step 4: Register for The Vault for Foodservice Image Content
The Vault is a secure, online storage and distribution tool for accessing and sharing standardized foodservice images. By using The Vault, your organization can distribute image content to your trading partners from one location.
Note: You must have an ECCnet Registry catalogue before registering for The Vault.
Once you register for The Vault, you are ready to schedule and submit your products for foodservice image capture by the GS1 Canada Content Capture Services studio in Montreal.
Click here (Login is required. Document link opens in new tab.) to register for The Vault.
Step 5: Schedule Your Products for Image Capture
Follow these steps to schedule your foodservice products for image capture:
- Log in to myGS1 (Login is required. Document link opens in new tab.).
- On the myGS1 home page, select Request a Content Capture Service (Login is required. Document link opens in new tab.) from the left navigation panel.
- Select Foodservice Imaging.
Alternatively, you may submit your own foodservice images for evaluation providing they have met the Foodservice Images - Standards Guide (Document link opens in new tab.). For more information on GS1 Canada's Content Capture Services, visit here.
Step 6: Leverage TrueSource™ Dashboard to Support Data Excellence
GS1 Canada's TrueSource™ Dashboard is a data excellence tool that provides visibility to the status of your product content within GS1 Canada's services with your trading partners across Canada.
To track your level of content readiness and identify potential content gaps in your data and foodservice images based on your trading partner listings, we recommend a regular review of your TrueSource™ Dashboard.
Contact ECCnetSupport@gs1ca.org after you have completed your subscription to GS1 Canada to obtain access to TrueSource™ Dashboard from your myGS1 page.
For additional support and more information reference our Help Library (Login is required. Document link opens in new tab.) or contact Subscriber Support team at 1.800.567.7084 or info@gs1ca.org.