Standards
What is a standard?
A standard is a reference, a recommendation, adopted by a community. It comes close to the notion of a standard, without being totally mandatory. The GALIA standards (and by extension Odette) are used among players in the automotive industry (Manufacturers, equipment suppliers, suppliers, service providers and solution providers, etc.).
Depending on the subject or process involved, the standard takes several forms. It can represent an operating mode (organization of exchanges between customer and supplier, etc.), a procedure (management of forecasts, etc.), technical specifications (characteristics of packaging, etc.) or functional (label data, etc.), a model of data to be exchanged (structure of EDI messages, etc.), a tool to help build a process (management of long-term archiving, etc.), specifications for the development of IT solutions (criteria for analyzing the quality of a CAD model…) or a shared and auditable repository (Global MMOG / LE, functions present in an ERP…).
What is the use of a standard?
The standard contributes to efficiency and performance. It offers a benchmark of proven best practices, validated by experts. It guarantees interoperability between different partners. It avoids studying and asking questions. It acts as a specification when purchasing products or services or when developing IT solutions. Taken into account by consulting firms, implemented by solution editors, it speeds up deployments. It facilitates the development of commercial activities with new partners. So it saves time for those who implement it and those who use it.
What is the use of a standard?
GALIA brings together companies from the automotive industry on issues relating to the exchange of goods and information. For more than 30 years, industrial experts have been meeting to identify good business practices. Lot of work is carried out jointly with our global partners.
To maintain this intellectual capital, GALIA continues to call on its members to adapt the standards to the changing needs of the supply chain or engineering. GALIA approaches other sectors whenever automotive processes require it.
The resources pooling within GALIA (Collaborative working groups, detachment of experts, appropriation of external work, etc.) results in a “leverage effect” beneficial to each company, which optimizes its investment in days / hours and the cost of solutions …
Palettes en bois (French version)
This standard defines characteristics and rules for the use of pallets, applicable for all automotive products with which this type of packaging is used.
Disposable wooden pallets (English Version)
This standard defines characteristics and rules for the use of pallets, applicable for all automotive products with which this type of packaging is used.
Why use GALIA packaging standards? (English version)
GALIA defines Packaging standards (Cardboard packaging, Plastic boxes, wooden pallets, …) used by Automotive industry partners.
French version available here
Pourquoi les standards d’emballages GALIA ? (French version)
GALIA defines Packaging standards (Cardboard packaging, Plastic boxes, wooden pallets, …) used by Automotive industry partners.
English version available here
Key Performance Indicators for Automotive Supply Chain Management
This recommendation provides a common definition of standardized indicators to measure supply chain performance within the automotive industry for both production and service parts.
ENGDAT V3
This recommendation specifies the content, structure, and format of a machine-readable delivery note (abstract, or content description) of exchanged technical data files.
It is available on the Odette web site: click here
Global MMOG/LE V4 (English version)
This tool of audit and Logistics self assessment is a global recommendation of best practices of the industry for Supply Chain process.
Global MMOG/LE for Carriers and Logistics Services Providers (LSPs)
This document contains recommended business practices for Carrier and LSP processes. This document can be used by an individual organization within the supply chain as a self-assessment or can be used between business partners as an audit tool. In both cases the resulting evaluation provides a comprehensive assessment of Carrier and LSP performance and capability.
Guidelines for reporting freight greenhouse gas emissions
Freight Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reporting is becoming an increasingly important topic for the industry and cannot be ignored. New standards are being published and there are rising demands for data both from external customers and public bodies as well as to meet the internal GHG accounting objectives of companies. These Guidelines have been bublished specifically for the automotive sector. They are directed at helping all those involved to understand the basic principles and to adopt a consistent approach that will support both recent and future standards and legislative requirements. Rather than introducting new methodologies, these Guidelines make recommendations based on use of the most appropriate existing initiatives. These are initiatives being adopded by industry as a whole and so these Guidelines may be helpful fo those engaged in other sectors besides automotive.
Product Data Quality Guidelines for the Global Automotive Industry – SASIG
Product data quality is a measure of the accuracy and appropriateness of product data combined with the timeliness with which those data are provided to all the people who need them.
Cardboard packaging for overseas flows
This standard defines the characteristics and rules for the use of disposable cardboard packages, applicable for automotive products to be shipped in sea containers.
Long Term Archiving & Retrieval of Digital Product Definition Data : Quality Assurance Recommendation – SASIG
o This document aims to provide a comprehensive explanation of the four checking and validation functions that define the LTAR Quality Assurance strategy. The four functions are: Product Data Quality (PDQ) Check, Archival Rules Check, Fixity Check, and Equivalence Validation. Included is a detail description of what each function does, why it is needed, and…
Long Term Archiving & Retrieval of Digital Product Definition Data : Time Period Recommendation – SASIG
o This document aims to provide an organization with the key functional and technical elements to consider when choosing a LTAR time period for a particular artifact of product data. Such a period should be retained to meet governmental or organizational requirements. These constraints can be associated with the intellectual property verification and validation; maintenance…
Long Term Archiving & Retrieval of Digital Product Definition Data : Process Recommendation – SASIG
This document aims to provide a company with the key activities, inputs, outputs, controls and mechanisms needed to fully support the long term archiving and retrieval of product definition information. Using official standards as the foundation framework, the SASIG Long Term Archiving & Retrieval Project developed seven comprehensive process flow models depicting the activities and…