GTS-Standard

What is GTS?

Initial situation

From the big data challenge to simple data exchange

Do these problems sound familiar to you?

The demand for product data is increasing rapidly and constantly?
Retailers create overwhelming manual workload for your team, asking for sustainability data on SKU bases for the products they ordered
Manually generated product data is error-prone, time-consumingand costly?
Do you have enormous costs due to this manual data entry?

We offer a simple and inexpensive solution for this:

The new industry standard GTS is the enabling technology for the exchange of data to manage efficient, resilient and circular value chains from fiber to recycling.

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The Solution

A new industry standard for translating data

GTS is the new B2B standard for exchanging detailed product data
along textile supply chains. It is the first standardized industry data
language and basic technology with which key data from producers,
suppliers, brands and retailers can be exchanged automatically – from
fiber to recycling.

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The Basis for this are:

GTS-L The Language

In the textile and fashion sector, it will not be possible to harmonize historically grown product data worlds. With GTS-Language, you can „translate“ your evolved product data into an industry-wide standardized data format with individual codes. This mapping is only necessary once.

GTS-CAT The Platform

The data exchange takes place automatically via the central GTS-CAT platform (or by web service). All relevant product data for raw materials, trimmings, finished products including certificates, E-commerce, sustainability properties, etc. can be uploaded and downloaded here. The platform is deliberately designed to be so simple that all essential functions are available even if users only work with Microsoft Excel.

Seamless Integration

GTS integrates seamlessly into your PDM, PLM, PIM and ERP systems and is already an integral part of the software solutions of an increasing number of well-known IT-providers in the industry.

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Simple. Logical. Practical.

How does GTS work?

The core principle is: translation instead of harmonization.

This translation principle works along the entire value chain:

For all data: BOM – Certificate – Demand – Sustainability – E-Commerce – Circularity & Recycling

GTS in practice

Use Cases

Brand & Retailer

E-Commerce- and Sustainability data

Brand Perspective
More and more retailers want to know at item – color – size (SKU) level which sustainability features their products, ordered from a brand have.
Up to now, I have had to compile the relevant information manually, as it is not part of the data stream, and send the result to the retailer by email.
With GTS, I can upload all the necessary sustainability and e-commerce data tothe GTS tool in a structured way and can release it to the retail partner individually for collection.
A background process in the retail ERP system retrieves the required sustainability and e-commerce data from the GTS system for my retail partner and automatically imports the data into their ERP system.

Benefits:

Time saved by employees.
Improving data quality and reducing bottlenecks.
Elimination of e-mails and additional, error-prone data entry

Retailer Perspective
As a retailer with an online store, I want to show my customers the care labels of the products online, as well as sustainability information in the future.

Previously, I had to open the parcels in goods receipt and copy the identification from the product label, as this is not part of the data stream.

With GTS, I can now store an indicator related to the supplier at a time when I know which items are coming into the online store.

A background process then retrieves the additional information for my named items and for the season from the GTS system and makes it available to my web shop.

Benefits:

Time saved by employees.
Goods go on sale floor faster.
Elimination of additional, error-prone data acquisition.
Automated basis for product descriptions.

BOM & Sustainability data

Suppliers Perspective
Once a supplier’s materials have „made it“ into the article master and BOM, a significant voulme of production material attributes need to be added. As this is done at item – color – size level and usually by e-mail, it requires a lot of manual processes.
Up to now, I have had to gather the relevant information manually, as this is only neatly documented in exceptional cases and is often only available in emails for copying.
With GTS, suppliers can upload all the necessary BOM data to the GTS tool in a structured manner and release it to the customer for processing.
A background process retrieves the data that customers need to update the article master from the GTS system for all their articles for the season and updates the article master automatically.

Benefits:

Significant time savings for employees.
Elimination of additional, error-prone data entry.
Significantly better data quality.

Brand Perspective
If a material/ingredient has made it onto the shortlist, the article master must be created for costing and creating the (costing and MRP) parts lists.
Up to now, I have had to compile the relevant information manually, as this is only cleanly documented in exceptional cases (often only in emails).
I have to ask for a lot of sustainability information individually.“ With GTS, my suppliers can upload all the necessary data to the GTS tool in a structured way and release it for me to collect.
A background process then retrieves the data I need to create my article master from the GTS system for all my articles for the season and generates the article master automatically. Price data, which is often only available at a late stage and today generates a lot of manual work, can be added automatically

Benefits:

Significant time savings for employees.
Elimination of additional, error-prone data entry.
Significantly better data quality.

Certificate data

Suppliers Perspective
The choice of which certificates a brand considers important is made solely by the brand.
As a result, the supplier is faced with an increasing number of requests for certificates – even those for which he has not even been audited.
In addition, there are inaccuracies in the request process that create additional complexities.
Since OEKO-TEX certificates, for example, apply to entire product classes, but are requested at item/color/size level, GTS automates complex processes that previously could not be automated at all without GTS.
The first IT systems are therefore already gearing their software towards GTS and the „new possibilities“.

Benefits:

Significant time savings for employees.
Automatizing of complex processes.
Significantly better data quality.

Brand Perspective
The importance of certificates of all kinds is increasing, as is the effort involved.
Up to now, I have had to collect the relevant information manually, as this is hardly ever properly documented, and I have to request the certificate individually. The management of certificate validity is also often done manually.
I have to ask my suppliers individually about the mere existence of a certificate, just as I do for my own certificates.
With GTS, suppliers can upload their certificates once to the GTS tool and release them to me and other customers for collection by stating the certificate number.
An API interface then allows me to retrieve a certificate, together with important data such as validity and automatic transfer to my PLM or ERP system.

Benefits:

Significant time savings for employees.
Elimination of additional, error-prone data entry.
Significantly better data quality.

Product classification & product data

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Suppliers Perspective
The supplier is requested by the platform to provide essential product data on the platform.
Today, this can only be done manually without GTS.
If this data is related to a specific brand, the same article often has to be created multiple times – even at production order and article color-size level.
A „download button“ on the platform automates this process.

Benefits:

This saves the supplier a lot of manual work and supports the platform, which is hindered in its actual range of services, e.g. supporting the brand in complying with the Supply Chain Act, in the event of onboarding problems from suppliers when delivering the data.

Platform Perspective
Hardly any textile platform can do without product data.
Until now, their users have had to collect the relevant information individually and enter it manually. The impetus may also come from brands that ask their suppliers to provide the data on the platform.
If important data classifications are missing, they have to be added manually, and since logical framework conditions are missing, this often leads to subsequent problems.
With GTS as a classification system, users can upload their product data once to the GTS tool and release it for collection by the platform and any customers who use the platform.
An API interface then allows the platform to fetch this data.

Benefits:

Significant time savings for employees.
Elimination of additional, error-prone data entry.
Significantly better data quality.

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Frequently asked questions about GTS

FAQ

What is GTS?

GTS is the new B2B standard for the exchange of detailed product data.

The principle: Data providers (supplier or brands) provide their data as predefined codes via a standardized catalogue with encoded data. For this purpose, experienced textile experts mimicked our natural “industry language” and made it machine to machine readable. Encoding each of the data makes GTS multilingual, e. g. allows the input in German and the output in French.
What is GTS not?
Why is GTS important for me?
How to work with GTS?

GTS developed with GTS-Language a product data catalogue, which easily adapts, quickly and inexpensively to your individual product world. This allows you to translate (map) your historically grown master data – including the meaning of each data – into a standard industry-wide data format. This mapping is only necessary once.
GTS is explicitely not another platform but a joint data language and smoothly integrates with your PDM, PLM, PIM, and ERP systems. Good news: GTS is already an integral part of the software solutions of numerous well-known IT providers in the industry.
How does GTS work?

As a supplier, you upload your relevant product data of raw materials, trimmings, finished products including certificates, e-commerce and sustainability properties etc. to the GTS-Cat platform – in the beginning using simple Excel files. As a customer, you automatically import these data from your suppliers into your own IT-system (PLM/ERP/PIM etc).

Each product class has its own core data sets that are constantly developed and adapted by industry experts. This allows you to exchange your product data with all your business partners in the same data language – without additional interface effort.
How can I use GTS?
What advantages does GTS bring me?
Reduces personnel and interface costs.

Improves data quality.

Expedites handling of certificates.

Facilitates implementation without any training.

Customized to all company sizes

Reduces lead times.

Lowers capital commitment due to more efficient planning.

Enables systematic communication of sustainability features to customers.

Provides reliable compliance with legal requirements, e. g. the upcoming Digital Product Passport.
What mapping paradoxon does GTS support?

What most of us don‘t know:

The “Mapping“ and “Semantics“ challenge

1:(n-1) mapping

1:n:1 mapping (less effort)

„mapping“ = fast and harmless

„semantics“ = slow and complicating

Contact

Are you in?

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Your contact person
Andreas Schneider, CEO

asc@globaltextilescheme.org

+49 171 6387 999

Book an initial consultation with us now and find out how GTS can help your business move forward.

In 30 – 60 minutes, we will present our service packages and your benefits in detail and answer your questions. If we do not yet have the right solution for your business model, we will be happy to provide you with a customized offer.

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