From the above discussion it is evident that the NCS/GS1 /UCC Working Group, after scoring a "direct hit" with the said linkage, will start exploring synergies in fascinating areas where further work has to be undertaken. The scope of its business will not only focus on both communities and on future evolution, but will concentrate on promoting the NCS/GS1 linkage, its analogous benefits, and future progress to wider forums like NATO Logisticians. The latter represent the next "target population", which will apparently harvest the resulting benefits, and fulfil their mission by utilising enhanced tools. They will be the ones who will express a direct need from an end user to the supplier during future multinational peacekeeping operations, and thus their opinion and desire to maintain the supply chain efficient and agile, is well esteemed. Interoperability is the key word in this effort, and represents the shape of things to come with respect to military materiel management. Along with that, minimisation of costs, materiel availability, and continuous support are indispensable factors for the future soldier, who will be called upon to go into battle around the globe either in the form of Rapid Deployment Force or as a Peacekeeper in the uncharted map of the new Millennium.