WHAT IS GLN?

GLN (Global Location Number) is approved to identify the location (procurement, production, warehouse, accounting, etc.), not the product.

GLN (Global Location Number) is used to identify locations and is used in electronic data interchange (EDI). It can be used to identify any legal, functional or physical location, such as company headquarters, branches, stores, warehouses, etc. and even to identify lower location units such as individual shelves or cabinets within a warehouse.

We can denote by GLNs:

• legal units (e.g. entire companies, branches, customers, banks...) 
• functional units (e.g. certain sectors within the company, such as accounting...)
• physical units (e.g. warehouses, certain rooms in the building, place of delivery...)
• digital locations

There are two basic types of GLN:

• primary (always identifies the headquarters of the economic entity, is assigned by membership in GS1)

• secondary (identifies other locations)

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