Common use of Electronic Ordering Clause in Contracts

Electronic Ordering. For Products and Services available directly from Vendor (if any), Vendor shall provide, at no additional cost to Purchasers, a mechanism for purchase order placement, confirmation, change orders and invoices to be sent by EDI or by internet-based e-commerce system. Vendor will absorb any costs incurred by Vendor to provide or maintain such mechanism, including third party costs for data transfers. Vendor and the applicable Purchaser shall own all transaction data, and HealthTrust shall have the right to access and retain such transaction data for performance of its group purchasing functions. 4.2. GS1 GTIN Standards. HealthTrust and Vendor support implementation of GS1 Global Trade Item Numbers (“GTIN”) and GLNs in the health care industry as the standardized system for marking products with unique identifiers at all units of use, in an effort to improve the efficiency and visibility of clinical supply and demand chains. Vendor will assign a GTIN to identify each Product at all applicable levels of packaging and will provide the GTIN and GLN information and applicable Product attributes to HealthTrust via the Global Data Synchronization Network (“GDSN”) using the services of a data pool provider certified by GS1. Upon HealthTrust request, Vendor will participate in compliance testing to demonstrate that its data submissions conform to the GTIN and GLN requirements.