A report released today by Capgemini Consulting, the global strategy and transformation consulting arm of the Capgemini Group, together with GS1, the global standards organization, and The Consumer Goods Forum, the consumer goods industry platform, concludes that wider adoption of standards is key to both supply chain efficiency and meeting new consumer needs.

The report, titled: “The Future of Standards in the Consumer Goods & Retail Industry: Cut costs and meet new consumer needs,” calls on the industry to introduce simplified programs to help users embrace and deploy standards while enabling provision of standardized product data to consumers.

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