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),

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.

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

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

A name change occurs when updates to how a party/location is officially referred to take place.

Changes to the name of a party or location do not require the allocation of a new GLN.

■ Change to legal name

□ Same GLN: Change to enterprise legal name does not require the GLN to be changed.

A change to party/location address occurs when the location reference point for interacting with the party/location is modified. This may be a change to an address, coordinates, geofence, or other location reference.

Figure 3‑4 provides an overview of the address changes included in section 3.5.

A change of use or purpose occurs when the activities, purpose, or functionality of a party/location is modified resulting in persistent differences in how that party/location can be interacted with.

Changes to the activities, purpose, or functionality of a party or location which impact the guiding principles require a new GLN.

■ Change to legal framework