UNSPSC

The UNSPSC (United Nations Standard Products and Services Code ) is an internationally employed classification system of commodity economy.

The UNSPSC system is used in e-procurement, particularly in the Americas, for enterprise -wide classification of goods and services of all kinds.

Formation and organization

The UNSPSC system was created in 1998 through a collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP) and the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation ( D & B).

With version 3 split for a few years to develop into two different strands, the well-kept by the UNDP UN / SPSC and maintained by the ECCMA and much more frequently updated UNSPSC. The consequential legal dispute over the copyright could the UNDP to decide for themselves, so that since 2003, only the system of UNDP will continue, with the ECCMA continues the current versions under their own number notation ( so means that the present ECCMA 13:01 UNDP 7.0401 ).

The UNDP appointed in May 2003, the GS1 U.S., formerly the Uniform Code Council (UCC ), the Code Manager. The Code Manager is responsible for monitoring the basic rules of the UNSPSC as well as the completeness of the code scheme. In this capacity, collects and evaluates GS1 U.S. also requests to code changes.

The code list is nominally available in the following languages ​​( although not all revisions are available in all languages ​​): English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Chinese, Portuguese and Danish. However, the quality of the translations for use in business transactions is often not useful because often literal translations of the preference was given before a meaningful contemporary translation.

Components

A UNSPSC Code consists of five levels, of which the first four are standardized. Each level is encoded by a two-digit number, so that the notation 8 - or 10-digit code. These levels are named as follows (example based on ):

  • Segment: 43 Information Technology Family: 20 media and computer accessories Class: 17 multimedia storage Commodity: 03 CD pockets ( Business Function: 14 resale )

A CD wallet will wear according to the classification code 43,201,703.

References

  • Homepage of the United Nations SPSC
  • Product classification
  • Economic computer science
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