EANCOM® is the international EDI standard used by the GS1 organisations,
based on UN/EDIFACT. EANCOM® development began in the late 1980s, and the first
EANCOM® manual was published in 1990. Building on the EAN identification system,
which defines unique identifiers for participating companies and their products,
messages were developed to simplify communication between companies and across
international borders, going beyond the earlier national standards such as
SEDAS in Germany and TRADACOMS in the United Kingdom.
Originally designed for the retail consumer goods sector, EANCOM® has
grown to become probably the most widely used UN/EDIFACT subset, and is
now found in health care, electronics, building supplies, transport,
publishing and other industries.
The current international version of the EANCOM® subset,
EANCOM® 97, was created using GEFEG.FX. In Germany,
France, Britain, Switzerland and Spain, there are also national variants
of EANCOM® 97 - some of them in the local languages -
which more specifically describe the local trade procedures. These national
versions of EANCOM® 97 were also created using
GEFEG.FX guide technology,
and published in RTF and HTML formats by means of GEFEG.FX's report
functions. GEFEG.FX
users can create concrete application specifications based on the
original EANCOM® guides, test production EDI messages against the
EANCOM® descriptions, and present the messages visually in business
forms such as invoices.
The EANCOM® data for the Consumer Goods
Industry is available as a module for
GEFEG.FX. This
data module includes the versions EANCOM® 2002 (D.01B),
EANCOM® 97 (D.96A), as well as the older versions EANCOM® 90.1 and EANCOM® D.93A.
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