Internal question about EPCIS support

[joaoluis-pdm]

This is a set of internal questions on EPCIS support implentation.

[joaoluis-pdm]

Assumptions (that must hold, or it won't work):

• All events received in timely sequence. No concurrent events allowed for the same objects.

Doubts of @joaoluis-pdm as of 2022-09-05:

General

• GLNs need translation mapping ? (To DID/IDs ?). Example GLN strings: <id>urn:epc:id:sgln:0614141.00888.0</id> ; <id>urn:epc:id:sgln:030000.00777.0</id> - centralized service for GLN/participant ID translation ? Or just have the ID extracted from the GLN ?
• decision: support only SOAP/XML web-services ? Or REST (EPCIS 2) ? Or both ?

Instance/Lot Master Data (ILMD) Action=ADD / Comissioning examples

• https://www.gs1.org/standards/epcis-and-cbv-implementation-guideline/current-standard#A-Appendix:-XML-Examples
• https://github.com/IBM/IFT-Developer-Zone/wiki/xml_EPCIS_Commission
• https://docs.axway.com/bundle/Track_and_Trace_12_USComplianceGuide_allOS_en_HTML5/page/Content/USCompliance/manufac_itemlevel_commissioningevent.htm
• http://frequentz.com/infocenter/iris/3.2/Commissioning_Events.htm

Q: Body tag is always <ObjectEvent> and action=ADD ?

Q: Smart (on-demand) Product creation ? There seems to be no data for a product description.

Q: quantityList+quantityElement vs ... ? FGT needs the full list of serialNumbers, that does not seem to appear in any example.

• Support quantity ? Support only units (uom) = CS (case) ?

Q: Aggregation uses special <AggregationEvent>. Always on action=ADD or ADD | OBSERVE ? Disaggregation is also an <AggregationEvent> action=DELETE ?

Q: AggregationEvents must be received before the shipping ?

Instance/Lot Master Data (ILMD) Action=OBSERVE / Shipping Examples

• See examples for ADD, and look for OBSERVE examples.

Q: Need to handle multiple source/destination tags ? (But if more than one, ignore every one of them, except the one withtype="urn:epcglobal:cbv:sdt:location" ?).

Instance/Lot Master Data (ILMD) Action=OBSERVE / Receive Examples

[joaoluis-pdm]

Object and AggregationEvent examples, including one shipping (from Jan 29 de agosto de 2022 11:35)
https://pdmfc374.sharepoint.com/:u:/s/PRJ-EUH2020-PharmaLedger/EX0T3_n2_LNNu5BGscDAp8UB1tWA6bXmWhqKjh20TDZ_Nw?e=IC5rPK

(Private repo as it may have codes belonging to Bayer).

[joaoluis-pdm]

https://pdmfc374.sharepoint.com/:u:/s/PRJ-EUH2020-PharmaLedger/ESM5iPxn_rhDhi6rkP1P_OUBnVkejh_81N3pDrM2xDmOVA?e=NPeLz3 example from Roche 2022-Oct-20 contains
(Private repo as it may have codes belonging to Roche).

• EPCIS_MSG_201220.XML - single AggregationEvent (packing_nested) ?
• SC_EP_NT_O_201719.XML - multiple events. Ends with shipping.