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Registering for logistical productivity lift
With the logistics industry undergoing major changes due
to Covid, extreme weather events, and a clogged supply chain, the industry-led National Location Registry is a welcomed initiative.
SNAPSHOT
NLR BENEFITS
• Increase efficiency: Create and manage your location data once and share with many;
• Reduced administration burden: Send your location data in one single process for all your trading partners;
• Eliminate duplication: No need for supply chain actors to curate multiple versions of the same location data for multiple trading partners;
• Control over your data:
• Critical foundation for supply
chain visibility and traceability solutions in regards to the “where” dimension;
• Send and receive trading partner location data through the same two-way process;
• Standardised set of location data: Pre-defined format and set of data for all stakeholders;
• Opportunity to digitise this important aspect of your supply chain; and
• Quality controlled industry registry.
SPONSORED by the federal Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications & the Arts, GS1 Australia developed and delivered the National Location Registry (NLR), an industry platform to complement the government’s Freight Data Hub initiative.
“There have been changes to trading hours and increased safety requirements around COVID at pick-up and delivery points.
“For a transport operator to execute a delivery, they need to understand the specific parameters of the physical location. This information is currently held in separate
shared between location owners and transport operators.
It provides a one-stop-shop of pick-up and delivery location information to support drivers deliver goods to businesses and consumers, including operating hours, weight and height restrictions for vehicles, truck entry and exit points, driver
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“ It provides a one-stop-shop of pick-up and delivery location information to support drivers deliver goods to businesses and consumers, including operating hours, weight and height restrictions for vehicles, truck entry and exit points, driver amenities, and safety requirements for each site.”
GS1 said the higher volumes of freight during and since Covid have put additional stress on distribution networks and transport providers.
systems and often not stored digitally,” GS1 said.
The NLR is designed to improve the digital capability of the logistics sector, providing
data to help improve productivity in transport and logistics, and support smooth, delay free pick-up and deliveries.
The registry digitises the management, storage and sharing of information about physical freight locations. This data can then be
amenities and safety requirements for each site.
A national call to action is underway for location owners across all industry sectors to publish their location data on the registry at nlr.org.au.
It is a multi-industry solution supporting sectors such as healthcare, transport and freight, grocery, agriculture, and general merchandise.
The benefits of the registry will be maximised by adding as many organisational locations aspossible. ✷
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