LocationManager

The national registry for Global Location Numbers (GLNs)

LocationManager holds GLNs for organisations and their locations in one place so you can access accurate information at your fingertips.

For an efficient healthcare supply chain, thousands of locations need to be managed on a daily basis, but how do you enable all stakeholders to have visibility of 10,000+ different addresses, 8,000+ billing details, and 90,000+ 'ship to' locations at any given time?

LocationManager makes this easier by managing these details centrally. Any time details are changed by supplier or trust, it only needs to be done once, and all relevant parties are notified of the update.

This improves supply chain efficiency, enables traceability, and makes the distribution of vital products faster and safer.

Who's it for?

All key healthcare stakeholders involved in the manufacture, distribution, supply, purchase and use of healthcare products and equipment should be using LocationManager.

This includes:

Suppliers

Brand owners

Manufacturers

Distributors

Wholesalers

NHS arm's length bodies

Regulatory authorities

NHS trusts

Benefits

Define and manage your own account and location information

Access and search for any GLN information you require 24/7

Subscribe to locations and receive real-time notifications of any changes made

Add or create GLNs individually or through bulk upload

Maintain and manage your users or direct contacts in one place

Facilitate e-procurement to take the manual burden out of purchase to pay transactions

How LocationManager can support you

Hundreds of stakeholders involved in the healthcare supply chain need to have timely access to purchase to pay (P2P) information to prevent delays to the delivery of vital resources.

Managing this information effectively is important for trusts as they begin to submit electronic orders via PEPPOL. They want to know that their orders will be delivered to the right place, at the right time, every time – and using LocationManager enables just that.

By centrally managing these GLNs, each of the trusts you work with can rest assured that deliveries are in-stock and accessible whenever and wherever they are needed, ultimately preventing critical delays to patient care.

For you, this reduces the likelihood of missing deliveries and ensures that the trust has accurate information for billing.

The benefits of using LocationManager:

Reduced transaction costs
Ease of compliance to regulatory requirements
Single point of access to trust location information
Access to up-to-date manufacturer, wholesaler or distributor information
Certainty of shipping and billing to the right location
Greater accuracy around product orders, pricing and payment
Improved patient safety as products are delivered to the right place when needed
Efficient product recalls
Fewer invoice and payment queries
Saves time

All NHS acute trusts you work with, are able to access LocationManager as part of the GS1 UK and NHS Digital five-year partnership agreement and NHS trusts in England have already committed to the implementation of GLNs and the adoption of LocationManager.

LocationManager provides an easy way of locating a GLN, or set of GLNs, for each supplier you use so you don’t waste valuable time trying to find the right supplier information when you need it.

And any changes made by you, or your suppliers, is updated in real time and stored so that it is readily available. It can then be accessed by all relevant parties without you having to update each of them individually.