Established legacy process that is working. Also as noted people spend money and give effort to make money I don't think this is a big enough pain point in terms of saving money.
In order to make this happen you would have to start by convincing (say) Walmart that it was good for them. Then they would force it down the throats of their vendors. Believe that happened with bar codes. I remember doing a job for a small business that was a Walmart vendor and needed bar codes (this was a long time ago the early 90's) in order to ship an order.
That said your writeup isn't that clear in stating the problem. I had to read it twice to understand what you were asking.
Established legacy process that is working. Also as noted people spend money and give effort to make money I don't think this is a big enough pain point in terms of saving money.
In order to make this happen you would have to start by convincing (say) Walmart that it was good for them. Then they would force it down the throats of their vendors. Believe that happened with bar codes. I remember doing a job for a small business that was a Walmart vendor and needed bar codes (this was a long time ago the early 90's) in order to ship an order.
That said your writeup isn't that clear in stating the problem. I had to read it twice to understand what you were asking.