Explanation:

Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) "aims to promote a global supply chain efficiency and effectiveness and consumer value created through a co-operation between manufacturers and retailers operating at the global level. The idea is to build an inter-business process that will endorse a set of recommended open and voluntary standards, enabling technologies and best practices with worldwide application, which will provide benefits to all users, large and small, wherever they operate.

This set will be developed and implemented by international standardisation organisations. GCI builds from a solid foundation created by the Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) Initiatives in Europe, the United States, Latin America, Asia and Africa, the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Standards Association (VICS) in North America and by the work of the standardisation organisations EAN International and Uniform Code Council, Inc. (UCC). ECR and VICS continues to help thousands of companies share best practices and remove costs from their operations.