GS1 - The global language of business
Benefits

An organisation that adopts
the use of GS1net will enjoy the following business benefits:
- Increased efficiency and accuracy of communicating information
by removing the need for "paper based" forms such as the UBF
- Reduction in lost vendor and retailer sales, "Out
of Stocks" and instances of excess stock levels caused by ordering
errors
- Reduced occurrences of retail scanning of "unknown items"
- The reduction of reconciliation work and the corresponding costs associated
with processing credit claims, returns etc.
- The prevention of reduced vendor or retailer margins that are
caused by incorrect pricing
- Elimination of rejected deliveries to stores or warehouses
resulting from incorrectly ordered/delivered items, price discrepancies etc.
- Easy and uniform access to images and dimensions for shelf space management
and marketing
- An overall reduction in supply chain costs for both supplier and retailer