{"id":3416,"date":"2011-11-28T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2011-11-30T15:08:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T20:08:54","slug":"what-is-unspsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3416","title":{"rendered":"What is UNSPSC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unspsc.org\/\">http:\/\/www.unspsc.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being the curious guy I am, after playing around with the food prices yesterday, I wondered if there is a [free] source that allows entering a UPC code (perhaps by using your iPhone to scan a barcode) and pulling up the description of that item&#8230; (you&#8217;re getting ahead of me!)<\/p>\n<p>So I started following the bread crumbs that ultimately led me to the &#8220;United Nations Standard Products and Service Code.\u00a0\u00a0 Things that involve the whole world require a United Nations Agency to permit companies to create and sell products.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the UNSPSC was created by the United Nations Development Programme [sic] in cooperation with Dun &amp; Bradstreet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the most efficient, accurate and flexible classification system available today for achieving company-wide visibility of spend analysis, enabling procurement to deliver on cost-effectiveness demands and allowing full exploitation of electronic commerce capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>50335827\u00a0 is the code for &#8221; Dried organic elephant heart plums&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.unspsc.org\/ Being the curious guy I am, after playing around with the food prices yesterday, I wondered if there is a [free] source that allows entering a UPC code (perhaps by using your iPhone to scan a barcode) and pulling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-finances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}