GS1 Locatenet - GLN Directory Service for Healthcare
Benefits of GLNs
The use of GLNs provides companies with a method of identifying locations, within and outside their company that are:
- Unique worldwide
- Already recognised as best practice in many sectors
- Simple. An easily defined data structure with integrity checking that facilitates processing and transmission of data
- Rules based and supported by guidelines, business examples and maintenance procedures
- Multi-sectoral: the non-significant characteristic of the GLN allows any location to be identified for any company regardless of its activity anywhere in the world
- Essential for accuracy of purchase orders, deliveries, payments and electronic messaging
- Able to be encoded in certain GS1 Symbols
- Administered by a not-for-profit standards organisation
GLNs enable the accurate execution of a range of supply chain processes, including electronic messaging, ordering, transportation, inventory management, traceability and product recall amongst many others.
Benefits of GS1 Locatenet
GS1 Locatenet enables the exchange of GLN data between supply chain partners accurately and effectively.
For Healthcare suppliers, GS1 Locatenet supports the National Product Catalogue (NPC) by replacing the current manual, unverified spreadsheets used by Jurisdictions to communicate NPC Price Locations to suppliers.
Some of the key benefits of GS1 Locatenet are:
- GS1 Locatenet provides a central source of location data using globally unique, standard GLNs as identification keys
- Creation and maintenance of unlimited GLN records
- Validation of key GLN data and business rules to ensure accuracy and completeness of information
- Complete audit / log trail of all new GLN records added and all changes made to existing records
- Ability to create multiple company users with various levels of access
- Automatic Alerts sent to you when a Trading Partner makes a change to their GLN records
- Automatic Alerts sent to your Trading Partners whenever you make a change to your GLN records
- Flexible and comprehensive search engine to search entire directory
- Download GLN records in a simple Excel Spreadsheet
- Developed by Industry for Industry and administered by GS1 Australia on a cost recover basis
- Based on GS1 global standards
