从ABI的案例看GDSN的简洁运作模式

Alcohol Beverage Industry Pilot
The world's largest supplier (Diageo) and two of the U.S.'s largest Alcohol Beverage Industry (ABI) distributors (Southern Wine and Glazer's) successfully completed a pilot to prove the viability and validity of GDSN in the ABI three-tier supply chain and enhance the attribute sets of GDSN to properly support the needs of ABI. This project was one of the most successful GDSN advances of 2005. In about three months, Diageo was publishing product information to Southern Wine and Glazer's (sending Catalog Item Notifications, or CINs), both of which were evaluating Diageo's GTIN publications and responding back with Catalog Item Confirmations (CICs). Southern Wine and Glazer's enhanced GTIN information to meet the needs of their customers and in turn published to customers such as Wal-Mart and Albertson's by sending CINs.

从ABI的案例来看，GDSN中一对一的运作可以简单依赖CIN和CIC来完成，主要用于验证GDSN的可行性和Item的属性定义集，但是要避免一对一的弊端，还是要综合采用产品信息管理系统PIM和数据池管理系统DPM。