The GS1 standards create a common foundation for business by uniquely identifying, accurately capturing and automatically sharing vital information about products, locations, assets and more. In the following instructions I describe a part of the GS1 ontology that is a part of GS1 standards. The ontology defines classes and their relationships. There are human readable names and definitions of classes and relationships enclosed in '.

There is a class 'Product' defined as 'Any item (product or service) upon which there is a need to retrieve pre-defined information and that may be priced, or ordered, or invoiced at any point in any supply chain.'. There is another class 'Organization' defined as 'An Organization is any legal or physical entity involved at any point in any supply chain and upon which there is a need to retrieve predefined information. An Organization is uniquely identified by a Global Location Number (GLN).'. There is also a relationship 'Has Manufacturer' relating 'Product' to 'Organization'. The relationship 'Has Manufacturer' is defined as 'The organization that produces the item.'. There should be exactly 3 paragraphs separated by the markdown divider: ***.
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