We needed a unique identifier without having to create a maintenance
organization. Duns existed and everyone (in the US) had or could get a Duns
number at no cost. Dun & Bradstreet was happy to assign every business a
number. Adding the 4 digit suffix allowed us to reference distribution
centers, stores, etc. It worked.
-----Original Message-----
From: William J. Kammerer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 4:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Location Systems ( was Walmart shipping information)
Dwight Andrews asked James Sykes "If a single company produces product
for multiple grocery chains using UPC assigned by the grocery chain,
will the same loading dock have multiple GLN's depending on the product
destination?"
Is that a trick question? I would've said that it works best if the
loading dock has only one GLN, using the company prefix of the
manufacturer (you know - the guy who owns the loading dock), independent
of the UPCs on the product. The manufacturer's dock "address" doesn't
change depending on who's being shipped to.
Now having said that, I have a question of my own: who invented the
DUNS+4? It surely wasn't Dun & Bradstreet - it sounds more like an
ad-hoc convention; maybe one of the old-timers - which surely excludes
me - can tell us the story. And if there's nothing magical about
DUNS+4, why not a DUNS+6 to allow for more store locations or loading
docks or whatever?
William J. Kammerer
FORESIGHT Corp.
4950 Blazer Pkwy.
Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305
+1 614 791-1600
Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/
"accelerating time-to-trade"
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