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Defence
In today’s modern defence
industry the tendency is to not reinvent the wheel by using proprietary
standards, but to incorporate the use of civil standards to promote commercial
best practices. Global Solutions offered by GS1 play a major role in the
defence sector including but not limited to procurement, logistics and
asset tracking.
GS1 standards are endorsed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
We have established formal working agreements involving codification and
asset tracking. GS1 continues the work with NATO since the formal proposal
to examine the linking of the NATO Stock Numbers (NSN) and the GS1 system
was reviewed by NATO officials in 1997.
The use of the GS1 system is promoted in a variety of NATO Standardization
Agreements (STANAGs), which are the foundation for NATO countries with
a uniform/common system for the identification, classification, and stock
numbering of items of supply. NATO recognizes the benefits of GS1 in areas
including but not limited asset / consignment tracking, standard bar code
symbologies, e-commerce and RFID.
Embracing GS1 Standards contributes to NATO to achieve the following
benefits:
- Interoperability and compatibility
- Decrease in Duplication of Efforts
- Use of civil standards
- Control of Procurement Costs
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