Committees and workgroups

Committees work in support of our Board of Directors. Their agenda is determined by research questions from GS1 Global or GS1 in Europe, specific assignments from the Board and questions from the market. They try to provide an answer by looking for solutions within the standards and, where necessary, providing input for their expansion.

The members of the committees are representatives of our members (manufacturers and distributors) with extensive experience and expertise in the area. Solutions approved by committees are communicated to the Board of Directors through the General Manager. If a committee cannot reach consensus, the Board of Directors will decide on the further course of action.

The Board, the CEO or the committees themselves may also set up temporary work groups to address specific issues within a discipline. They report to the relevant committee, which in turn - through the General Manager - communicates the solutions to the Board of Directors. Work groups are composed of experts from the member companies, depending on the subject at hand.

Discover the committees

- Committees for the FMCG & Foodservice sector

- Committees for Retail (intersectoral)

- Committees for the DIY, Garden & Pet sector

- Committees for the Healthcare sector

- Committess for standards and innovation

FMCG & Foodservice

Do you have questions about a committee for this sector? Contact us at fmcg-foodservice@gs1belu.org.

Belgilux Data Committee

The Data Committee has 2 roles:

review and give advice to the Benelux maintenance group on every change request on the datamodel (standardised product sheet) and the associated validation rules
follow up all projects related to the exchange of product information

Contact person: Victor Vroklage

Benelux Maintenance Group

The Benelux maintence group maintains the datamodel (standardised product sheet) and the associated validation rules.

Based on the advice of the Belgilux Data Committee and the maintenance group in the Netherlands, it decides on every change request.

Contact person: Victor Vroklage

Benelux e-commerce work group general attributes

The Benelux general e-commerce work group prepares the thematic extension of the datamodel (standardised product sheet) with e-commerce attributes that are relevant for all product categories.

The outcome of this work is proposed to the Benelux maintenance group.

Contact person: Victor Vroklage

Benelux e-commerce work group specific attributes beer & wine products

The Benelux beer & wine e-commerce work group prepares the thematic extension of the datamodel (standardised product sheet) with e-commerce attributes that are specific for the beer & wine product categories.

The outcome of this work is proposed to the Benelux maintenance group.

Contact person: Victor Vroklage

Benelux e-commerce work group specific attributes personal care products

The Benelux personal care work group prepases the thematic extension of the datamodel (standardised product sheet) with e-commerce attributes that are specific for the personal care product categories.

The outcome of this work is proposed to the Benelux maintenance group

Contact person: Victor Vroklage

Belgilux data quality work group

The Belgilux data quality work group is in charge of the preperation of the content of the data qualitity program. It defines the audit rules, sample regime, exemptions, time & reliability KPI-targets and measures non-compliance.
The work group reports to the Data Committee, which in charge of the follow up all projects related to the exchange of product information in Belgium and Luxembourg.

Contact person: Victor Vroklage

Belgilux EDI Committee

The EDI Committee follows up all projects related to the exchange of electronic business documents via EDI.

Contact person: Kris Noyez

Belgilux work group Harmonized Order-to-Cash

The work group "Harmonized Order-to-Cash" maintains the sectoral order-to-cash process which is composed of the business documents electronic order, despatch advice datamodel and invoice/credit note.

It decides on every change request and reports to the EDI Committee.

Contact person: Kris Noyez

Belgilux work group Continuous Replenishment Planning

The work group Continuous Replenishment Planning develops the sectoral standard for Co-Managed Inventory (CMI) and Vendor Replenished Inventory (VRI) process which is composed of the business documents eletronic sales report and inventory report.

It reports to the EDI Committee.

Contact person: Kris Noyez

Belgilux work group Coupon Data Pool - retailers

The work group Coupon Data Pool - retailers follow up all projects related to the exchange of coupon information via the Coupon Data Pool from the viewpoint of the supermarkets that redeem coupons.

Sometimes it does joint meetings with the work group of suppliers regarding couponing principles (rules) and mobile couponing

Contact person: Kris Noyez

Belgilux work group Coupon Data Pool - suppliers

The work group Coupon Data Pool - suppliers follow up all projects related to the exchange of coupon information via the Coupon Data Pool from the viewpoint of the suppliers that issue coupons.

Sometimes it does joint meetings with the work group of retailers regarding couponing principles (rules) and mobile couponing.

Contact person: Kris Noyez

Work Group Variable measure items at POS

The objective of the work group is twofold:

to standardize the identification of variable measure items scanned at POS (move from national number to GTIN)
to guide the Belgilux retail to transition to GS1 DataMatrix barcode at POS (move from 1D to 2D barcodes)

Contact person: Karen Arkesteyn

Retail

Do you have questions about one of these committees? Contact us at fmcg-foodservice@gs1belu.org or diy@gs1belu.org according to your sector.

Intersectoral retail Benelux product images work group

The intersectoral retail Benelux product images work group is in charge of defining the specifications of products images that are exchanged via the product information solutions of GS1 Belgilux and GS1 NL.
The work group reports to:

FMCG - Foodservice Belgilux : Data Committee
FMCG - Foodservice NL: Food & Drugstore Steering Committee
DIY - Garden - Pet Benelux: Steering Committee

Contact person: Ro Van Hamme

Benelux DIY/FMCG working group tax information

The role of this working group is to harmonise the tax attributes for BEBAT RECUPEL WECYCLE STIBAT and WEEE in the Benelux for the FMCG/L&D/DIY, Garden and Pet datamodel

Contact persons

GS1 Belgilux: Ro Van Hamme

GS1 NL: Robin Veldman

DIY, Garden & Pet

Do you have questions about a committee for this sector? Contact us at diy@gs1belu.org.

Benelux Maintenance Group

The Maintenance Group manages, maintains and develops GS1 standards on the basis of market developments and market demand. The starting point is to resolve business issues and to optimize exchange. The ultimate result is to safeguard the GS1 standards (implementation convention).

Additionally and when needed, there is a possibility to create temporary working groups. For example working groups to optimize a specific part of the datamodel, whether this is a class/segment of bricks, or working groups about one or more specific attributes to be optimized for multiple bricks.

Contact persons:

GS1 Belgilux: Zhang Li Pollet

GS1 NL: Robin Veldman

Benelux Steering Committee

The objective of the Steering Committee is to steer towards the realization of the GS1 Business Council committed projects within the term set out in the business case. It also aims to develop and prepare project plans instructed by the Business Council or, in the case of enough support within the Steering Committee, developed in-house within the limits of the GS1 policy plan and without delaying factors.

Contact persons:

GS1 Belgilux: Sarah Lard

GS1 NL: Marco Van der Lee

Benelux Business Council

The objective of the Business Council is to determine the vision and policy of the sector. On that basis, it prioritizes business issues and it commissions and commits to the projects set up by the Steering Committee.

Contact persons:

GS1 Belgilux: Sarah Lard

GS1 NL: Jerry Tracey

Healthcare

Do you have questions about a committee for this sector? Contact us at healthcare@gs1belu.org.

Healthcare Committee

The objective of the Healthcare committee is to determine the vision, policy and priority of the sector, and this based on the Global Health Care 5 year strategy (2018-2022).

Contact person: Patrick Ponsaerts

Workgroup Aggregation of Serialized Medicinal Products

The objective of the Workgroup Aggregation of Serialized Medicinal Products is to make a guidance with recommendation for the different stakeholders in the sector based on GS1 standards in Belgium and Luxembourg.

Contact person: Patrick Ponsaerts

Workgroup ECHO

The objective of the Workgroup ECHO is to make the implementation of GDSN easier for all Healthcare stakeholders by using a common agreed data model and supporting the pilot.

Contact person: Patrick Ponsaerts

Workgroup Electronic Data Interchange in Healthcare

The aim of this workgroup is to facilitate the implementation of, and give recommendations on, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for the healthcare sector.

Contact person: Patrick Ponsaerts

Standardisation & Innovation

Do you have questions about a committee for this sector? Contact us at support@gs1belu.org.

Workgroup GS1 Digital Link

This work group aims to inform GS1 Belgilux members about the GS1 Digital Link standard, to guide discussions on Belgilux implementations and to coordinate pilots.

Contact person: Karen Arkesteyn