UCCnet Exceeds 3,000 Subscribers For its Item Registration and Synchronization Services
LAWRENCEVILLE NJ, April 5, 2004 – UCCnet, a not-for-profit organization that provides item registry and synchronization services, experienced significant growth during the first quarter of 2004. During this three-month period, UCCnet added 566 new companies — surpassing 2003’s record of 119 new companies during the same time period. As of March 31, 2004, UCCnet companies totaled over 3,000.
Since its inception in 2000, UCCnet’s subscriber base has grown into neighboring sectors and includes retailers and manufacturers within grocery; textile, furniture, jewelry, apparel and beauty products; hardlines and building; pharmaceuticals; chemicals, agriculture and industrial; office supplies; and medical. Recent UCCnet subscribers include Office Depot, The Home Depot, Albertsons, Elmer’s Products, Inc., Delta Faucet Company, Staples, Bayer Healthcare LLC – Consumer Care Division, H-E-B, and Tyson Foods. Sixty-two percent of the UCCnet subscriber base comes from the non-grocery sector. The non-grocery segments such as hardlines and general merchandise represent the primary source of growth for UCCnet during 2003 and 2004.
UCCnet’s Vice President of Business Development Dan Wilkinson attributes the organization’s tremendous growth rate to its customer-focused philosophy and value of the UCCnet registry and synchronization services. “By consistently bringing value to our customers in a fiscally responsible manner, we have created strong partnerships,” said Mr. Wilkinson. “The UCCnet community increases the collective value by increasing the number of trading relationships. We simply find ways to enable the community growth more quickly.”
The UCCnet registry has earned strong global support, with endorsements by EAN International, the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Standards Association (VICS), the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI), The Food Marketing Institute (FMI), the American Hardware Manufacturers Association (AHMA), the Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA), and other industry groups and trade associations. It is acknowledged worldwide as the multi-industry source where trading partners can locate item, location, and partner information regardless of where subscribing manufacturers have published it.
UCCnet’s registration and synchronization services enable suppliers and their retail partners to reduce costly administrative errors in invoice pricing, purchase orders, product delivery and scanning accuracy. In addition, companies can increase the speed of getting new products to market and facilitate continuous exchange of changes to existing item information. Synchronized data in a standard format also provides a solid foundation for realizing the true cost savings value of more advanced electronic commerce tools such as scan-based trading and Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR).
About UCCnet
The UCCnet registry improves the accuracy of an organization`s supply chain product and location information. Suppliers provide product, location, and trading partner information to the UCCnet registry. UCCnet data synchronization services then check the data for compliance to EAN.UCC standards and validate the data with demand side partners, ensuring that all trading partners are using identical, updated, EAN.UCC standards-compliant data. Visit www.UCCnet.org for more information.
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Jack Grasso, Senior Director of Public Relations
Uniform Code Council, Inc.
609.620.4555
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