Locatenet for Healthcare
GS1Locatenet is a central repository that enables the exchange of location information between trading partners in the healthcare sector. It also supports the National Product Catalogue by replacing the current manual processes used by healthcare providers to communicate NPC price locations to suppliers.
Due to the move towards the greater use of e-messaging and improved supply chain management, Global Location Number (GLN) management has become an increasing issue in healthcare. GLN’s are globally unique 13 digit reference numbers used to identify price point and ship to locations and are allocated by the health authorities to hospitals and area health services. This location data also cascades down to hospital ward and even ward imprest locations within hospitals.
Further benefits provided by GS1 Locatenet for Healthcare are:
- Easier, faster and more accurate eProcurement processes and
- The NEHTA eProcurement solution use of GLNs in the messaging to identify the ordering party, supplier, ship to location and billing address.
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