These Partner Connections benefits help your business meet your partners' supply chain requirements, generate additional revenue, and reduce your overall supply chain costs:

• Guidelines and Tools – Supply chain tools that can save you time and drive efficiency into your supply chain.

• Data Driver™ – A quick and easy software tool that helps you create and manage globally unique identification numbers and defines Universal Product Code (U.P.C.) bar codes for your products, stores your product information, and creates a Product Identification Detail Sheet for your label vendor. Data Driver also creates and manages Global Location Numbers (GLNs) to identify your company/organization in electronic commerce transactions. No standards knowledge is necessary – Data Driver guides you with step-by-step instructions.

• Solutions Center – Unlimited access to the GS1 US online reference library of up-to-date information for bar code and electronic commerce standards, guidelines, and tools that drive business efficiency. Through this interactive resource center, you are instantly connected to the world's leading information source on supply chain standards, from basic steps for creating a U.P.C. bar code to highly detailed guidelines for implementing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

• Online Education – The ultimate training in supply chain standards, delivered right to your desk, at no extra cost. With GS1 US Web Seminars, you can learn about bar coding, electronic commerce, and more. Receive unlimited access to important education you can use to solve today’s business challenges.

• Essential Business Information – Keep up-to-date with supply chain solutions, ahead of your competitors, in-touch with best practices, and informed about the standards initiatives directly affecting your business. Our exclusive newsletter, GS1 US: Between the Lines, provides you with this important supply chain news.

• Quick Access to One-on-One Expert Assistance – Enjoy a personal connection to the supply chain specialists at GS1 US via a toll-free hotline. The Partner Connections Team can help you with extensive supply chain research, information, and implementation guidance. Partner Connections representatives have immediate access to GS1 US and other industry professionals to help ensure that your business has the most current information about innovative and effective supply chain tools.

• Discounts on GS1 US Educational Events, Products, and Services – Take advantage of discounts on registration fees for the U Connect Conference^®, Supply Chain U^®, and other GS1 US educational events. Save on tools and implementation guidelines, too.

• Continued Use of Your Unique Company Prefix –You must renew your license to continue to use the unique GS1 Company Prefix assigned to your company to create identification numbers and associated bar codes, such as the U.P.C. This enables you to communicate product information to your trading partners, accurately and efficiently, while reducing your supply chain costs. Renewing your license annually ensures that your company prefix will be listed in the GS1 US Membership Directory, a resource used by retailers and distributors.

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Partner Connections is a program of GS1 US BarCodes and eCom^™ and is subject to change.