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Question: What did the Uniform Code Council,  EAN International (now combined to be GS1), Procter & Gamble and Gillette (later acquired by P&G) do in 1999 that has had a big impact on the supply chain industry?

Answer is below.

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ANSWER:

Those four groups provided the funding to start up the Auto ID Labs at MIT, which ultimately resulted in the Electronic Product Code (EPC) standards and ignited the interest in RFID.