UCCNET SELECTS GXS AS ONBOARD SUPPORT PROVIDER
12 July 2005 - Global Exchange Services (GXS)

UCCnet Onboard Support is the preferred data synchronization implementation method of UCCnet and allows a company to pay one price, and work with a single point of contact to operate in the GDSN. GXS will help implement trading partners into the GDSN through the UCCnet Onboard Support option.

'UCCnet Onboard Support is the fastest and easiest way to implement data synchronization and achieve its business benefits,' said Dan Wilkinson, vice president, business development, at UCCnet. 'A company's supply chain should be simple and seamless, allowing personnel to focus on their business's core responsibilities. Through this agreement, GXS is helping to achieve this mission.'

To prepare customers to conduct effective data synchronization using accurate and complete product data, GXS offers customers, both large and small, a range of solutions that connect directly to the UCCnet data pool through the UCCnet Onboard Support option. For example, GXS Product Information Manager (PIM) solutions allow customers to deploy a single repository for all product data, enabling central management of item information. GXS' PIM also allows businesses to exchange product information with trading partners, using major industry standards for data synchronization.

'Working with UCCnet, GXS further strengthens its leadership role with a complete range of on-demand supply chain management solutions to assist companies with global data synchronization. Our combined industry knowledge, standards leadership, data pool experience and proven ability to enable small and medium-sized businesses, offer joint GXS and UCCnet customers' best-of-breed support,' said Ross Curtis, senior vice president, worldwide field operations at GXS. 'With GXS as a solution provider, retailers and suppliers have the ability to address product information management needs tactically or strategically, using GXS' breadth of supply chain solutions. In short, UCCnet Onboard Support, enabled by GXS, provides customers with a comprehensive and complete data synchronization solution.'

With more than 4,200 subscribers, UCCnet has the leadership position among U.S. data pools. In total, UCCnet and GXS service 43 large retailers, including AAFES, Haddon House, and Piggly Wiggly. Currently, UCCnet supports subscribers in a broad range of industry verticals, including grocery/CPG, retail, hardlines, automotive aftermarket, and alcoholic beverages.

In addition to providing on-boarding services for UCCnet in the U.S., GXS is the leader in providing international data pool services for GS1 member organizations. The Company is developing and deploying country and regional data pools in 18 countries around the world, including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Korea, New Zealand, Russia, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, as well as a data pool across the Middle East and Mediterranean region. GXS Data Pool Manager provides hosted information repositories, in the GXS Trading Grid, that facilitate the entry, registration and synchronization of data between trading partners. For the retail supply chain, GS1 is promoting GDSN-certified data pools globally to speed product information synchronization.

GXS also offers customers its Community Link service to enable global trading partner ramping, technical support and change management. Community Link provides proven tools and expertise customers need to launch e-commerce initiatives and ensure their ongoing success, be they EDI, data synchronization, AS2 or VAN migrations.

The GXS Trading GridSM is the world's largest electronic business community, used by more than 30,000 trading partners every day to exchange goods and services. As a services-oriented architecture business-to-business platform, Trading Grid helps customers automate global trading communities by shielding complexity from rapidly changing standards, eliminating manual and duplicative efforts and enabling a new level of process integration and business intelligence.

UCCnet is a subsidiary of GS1 US (formerly the Uniform Code Council, Inc., a not-for-profit member organization of GS1 (formerly EAN International) that is dedicated to the development and implementation of standards-based, global supply chain solutions. UCCnet is a GDSN-certified, U.S.-based data pool that offers data synchronization services that enable trading partners to exchange accurate, standards-compliant data. Visit www.UCCnet.org for more information.

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