GS1 Canada Supplier Excellence Checklist — Grocery Industry

A GS1 Canada subscription is the first step towards meeting your trading partners' content requirements for accurate and standardized product information and images.

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If you do not have GS1 Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs) or barcodes for your products follow these three simple steps before moving onto Step 2.

The ECCnet New Item Setup solution streamlines the listing process with your trading partners. You are required to load, certify and publish your product catalogue using ProSYNC.

1. Register for ProSYNC
   1. Log into myGS1 using your login credentials.
      Click on the ProSYNC link under My Tools on the myGS1 landing page.*
      *If you do not see a link for ProSYNC on your myGS1 homepage, contact GS1 Canada at operations.support @gs1ca.org
   2. Complete the steps that appear on the screen.
      
      Find out more about your data loading options.
2. Load your product information
   1. Log into myGS1. From the ProSYNC landing page, select Add-New and follow the screen prompts to guide product data entry.
   2. Select your channel of distribution within your ECCnet Registry product catalogue (either Grocery or Foodservice) and load the product information for up to 10 GTINs. Mandatory attributes are denoted with an asterisk (*).
   3. Save and Approve the product information.
3. Certify your ECCnet Registry Catalogue
   1. To enter and share the product information needed to support the New Item listing process with your trading partners, your product catalogue must be compliant and grocery or foodservice-certified. To do so, complete the following steps:
      1. Email ECCnetsupport@gs1ca.org to request catalogue certification and specify which trading partners you intend to do business with. Publish your product information to your trading partner(s).
   2. Click on the trading partner tab in myGS1 and select the name(s) of the trading partner(s) you want to share your product information with.
      » Follow these steps to publish your information to your trading partners.

If your organization only sells non-food products, skip to Step 4

The Vault is a secure, online storage and distribution tool for accessing and sharing standardized Marketing and Planogram content to your retail and foodservice trading partners from the same place, at the same time.

Register for The Vault

Once you've registered for The Vault, you can arrange to have your product images and data content captured. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Log in to myGS1.
2. Select your company from the drop-down menu.
3. On the myGS1 home page, select Request a Content Capture Service from the left navigation panel.
4. Select the Retail Trading Partner Bundle and schedule your products for capture. The Retail Trading Partner Bundle includes:
   1. eCommerce Data and Hi-Resolution Images
   2. Planogram Data and Lo-Resolution Images
   3. Marketing Images Hi Resolution
   4. Nutrition Fact Table and Product Ingredient Images

The Vault - eCommerce is a one-to-many secure storage and distribution tool for ecommerce image and product data.

Register for Product Certification - eCommerce Content

Once the content capture process is complete, you are required to certify the content, enabling your trading partners to access your certified ecommerce content.

If your organization only sells non-food products, skip to Step 7

ECCnet Nutritional Content enables your organization to provide certified nutritional data, including ingredients, allergens and certification claims, with the added ability to provide extended detail.

Register for ECCnet Nutritional Content

Once the content capture process is complete, you are required to certify your content in Product Certification, allowing your trading partners to access your certified nutritional content.

Register for Product Certification - Nutritional Content

Regularly refer to TrueSource™ Dashboard to track your level of content readiness and identify potential content gaps with your trading partners' requirements.

Contact ECCnetsupport@gs1ca.org after you have completed your subscription to obtain access to TrueSource™ Dashboard.

If you find discrepancies on TrueSource™ Dashboard for any of the reasons below, contact your trading partner or GS1 Canada Account Manager (if applicable):

1. Products in TrueSource™ Dashboard are no longer sold through a specific trading partner.
2. Data inconsistencies in TrueSource™ Dashboard.
3. Data and imaging updates are required

If you have any questions or require support, contact GS1 Canada at info@gs1ca.org or 1.800.567.7084.