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So a customer demands that you use GLN’s and GTIN’s. What next?

March 22nd, 2010 | Author: Dirk Rodgers

In the healthcare supply chain a significant number of hospital group purchasing organizations (GPO’s) have stipulated, to varying degrees, that their suppliers begin making use of GS1 Global Location Numbers (GLN’s) in all of their trade with their member hospitals by the end of 2010 (Sunrise 2010) and GS1 Global Trade Item Numbers (GTIN’s) by the end of 2012 (Sunrise 2012). Here are the announcements from Novation, Premier, MedAssets and Amerinet. From the wording of their announcements it appears that Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: GDSN, GLN, GPO, GS1, GS1 U.S., GTIN, Healthcare supply chain, HIBC, HIBCC, HIN, master data, SCMD, Sunrise 2010, Sunrise 2012, supply chain master data |

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Dirk Rodgers

Dirk is a Sr. Consultant in the U.S. Healthcare Supply Chain. He contributed to many of the industry groups that were formed to investigate solutions to the problem of counterfeit and other illegitimate drugs in the legitimate supply chain. He served as co-chair of a number of key technical work groups in GS1 and GS1 US. These include the original GS1 EPCglobal Drug Pedigree Messaging work group that created the DPMS pedigree standard, the Network Centric ePedigree (NCeP) work group and the RFID Barcode Interoperability Guideline work group. Dirk holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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