The Global Language of Business

1.2 Scope of the standard

Today’s Transport & Logistics (T&L) industry and supply chain are becoming ever more open and competitive, with increasing numbers of service providers (especially in Last Mile) and also new entrants coming in from outside the traditional T&L environment.

As a result, Transport & Logistics processes have become far more international and complex. This drives the need for greater interoperability among stakeholders in the T&L environment and among their systems and supply chains.

1.1 Target audience

All parties involved in creating transport units or handling transport units at any stage of their journey from original source to final destination, may use this Implementation Guideline.
These include:

Senders of goods (e.g., manufacturers, sellers, marketplaces, retailers),

Receivers of goods (e.g., consumers, buyers, businesses of all sizes, authorities like municipalities, hospitals),

1 Introduction

The GS1 Logistics Label has been established successfully for many years to support the flow and management of transport units along the supply chain. However, users, supporting the transport process (i.e. logistics service providers), need to have transport data encoded directly on the label to best support their processes. In response to these requirements, this Implementation Guideline explains how to add relevant transport data in a 2D Code on the transport label while supporting existing applications.

3.8 Contact change

A change to contact information refers to updates to details on how to communicate with a party/location.

Changes to the contact information associated to a party or location do not require the allocation of a new GLN.

Change to contact details of legal entity

3.7 Financial change

Financial changes refer to updates to information needed to process payments between business entities.

Changes to the financial information associated to a party or location do not require the allocation of a new GLN.

Change to tax registration number of legal entity

Same GLN: when the tax registration number of the legal entity changes