National Location Registry - Freight and Logistics

Industry’s appetite for increased supply chain visibility continues to grow, with location master data identified as a critical gap to achieving this. With no industry service/solution to fill that gap, location master data today is non-existent in any digitalised framework.

At industry’s request, a Steering Committee was established in August 2019; the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications understood the potential and provided pilot funding. The pilot helped demonstrate the publication, storage, retrieval and exchange of location master data. It provided a precursor to establishing a National Location Registry for the Australian Freight & Logistics industry.

The Steering Committee accepted pilot findings and recommendation to proceed to build the National Location Registry.

Read more: Pilot Report – link coming soon

Understanding the specific parameters of a location where physical transport processes take place has been identified as a critical component to achieving effective supply chain visibility.

In keeping with the supply chain efficiency pillar of the National Freight & Supply Chain strategy, the registry will provide essential data to drive productivity improvements in the Transport & Logistics industry.

• Digitalisation of the storage, management, retrieval, and dissemination of location data
• Reduced data errors and ambiguity
• Reduced administration burden
• Efficient synchronisation of data with carriers
• Improved data management/quality
• Single source of truth
• Efficient - create information once, share with many
• Reduced delivery errors
• Carriers will have up to date information about customers’ and customer’s customers’ locations  – improved precision about correct equipment, PUD parameters, restrictions, curfews, other site conditions etc
• Supports CoR and driver well being 
• Subscribe to data owners or list of GLNs to get accurate information
• Reduced duplication of records and/or multiple versions 
• Provide feedback on any inaccuracies
• Push/Pull notifications of changes
• Critical for visibility/traceability solutions – “where” dimension

• Central database containing accurate location information and extended attributes for effective management of:
  • Trading or operating hours for peak periods
  • Safety constraints at a site
  • Driver amenities available
  • Weight/height restrictions
  • Dedicated truck entry points
  • Other random site requirements, e.g. Drivers must wear hard hats 
• Accessed via web or API
• Subscription model to link to internal systems and maintain currency via updates
• Data provided directly from source
• Leveraging global data standards

Location Data Providers - Owners/custodians of their locations provide data to the registry – provide data once and make it available to many.
 

• Location Data Providers control access to their location data based on data recipient requests or can elect to make it public
• Location Data Recipients request access to location data or can search data that is publicly available
• All users of the registry must be registered