> One of my clients called and said that they needed a GLN. > (Global LOCATION Number) > > My experience until now, is that only Walmart has been using GLNs for their > various Store and DC locations.
Well, the healthcare industry is currently "implementing GS1" and I know already one of the biggest (Cardinal Healthcare) is using GLNs for location identifiers. > I am ready to tell them to 'Make one up', by using their existing GS1 prefix, > some 5 digit number for their location and calculating the checksum. I think that is "not the best possible advice." The whole idea behind "standard numbering" (UPC/GTIN, GLN, EAN in Europe) is that "at some time somewhere" there will be a common repository - 'One stop shopping' if you will - to accurately identify places and things withour regard to the manufacturer or knowledge of any proprietary numbering scheme. In your example, "making up a GLN" - that is, not properly registering with that central repository - is totally antithetical to the purpose of GLNs in the first place. That said, there is a whole host of "industry acceptance" of "standard numbering" issues, especially for "things." Even way back when I worked for an industrial distributor (the, er, 1970s), "UPC" was the "hot new thing." However, the two major product lines we distributed - Browning for PTP and BF Goodrich for rubber products), adamantly refused to participate in "UPC" because they felt it automatically commodotized their products, wasting both the brand name value and the (real or perceived) advantages of THEIR product over the competition's putative "or equal." Michael C. Mattias Tal Systems Inc. Racine WI [email protected] 262-681-3895 Outside WI Toll Free 1-877-264-2847 ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
