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What is Retail Compliance?

From a logistics perspective retail compliance refers to the adherence of retailers to predefined standards, policies, and guidelines set by manufacturers, brands, or regulatory authorities. It involves ensuring that the supply chain follows established protocols to maintain consistency and meet specified criteria.

Retail compliance is a critical aspect of the supply chain with reference to consumer goods and retail distribution. Brands establish compliance standards to maintain brand integrity, control the customer experience, and drive sales.

Retail compliance is essential for manufacturers and brands to maintain control over how their products are presented and sold at the retail level. It ensures consistency in branding, pricing, and promotional activities, contributing to a positive and uniform customer experience.

Common challenges in achieving retail compliance include variations in regional or international retail practices, and communication gaps between manufacturers and retailers. Overcoming these challenges requires effective communication, technology solutions for real-time tracking, and collaborative efforts to align goals and standards across the supply chain.

Retail compliance — or vendor compliance — encompasses the requirements a retailer sets for its distribution infrastructure. Different retailers have different sets of requirements depending on their specific needs and inventory cycle. For example, a home goods retailer might need a larger shipment in December to prepare for the upcoming holiday rush, while an office supplies retailer would want their biggest shipment in August before the school year starts.

Creating a reliable distribution infrastructure is complex, which is why retail compliance can encompass requirements for:

  • Shipping and packaging guidelines and best practices

  • Requirements to manage the supply chain in other retail environments like ecommerce and dropshipping

  • Rules for warehouses handling fulfilment

  • Customer support procedures

Retail Compliance Functionality in SEKO360

Retail Compliance Fields

“Load Sales Orders” and “Load Web Sales Orders” - Retail Compliance fields (iHub)

Clients can use the “Load Sales Orders” and “Load Web Sales Orders” services on iHub to load “Retail Compliance” data for a Sales Order.

Notes

GS1 Company Prefix Value

DC Code of individual ship to store

Company Name of the individual ship to store store (to be used for cross dock sales orders)

Dept Number of individual ship to store

Line1 of the individual ship to store address

PO Date

Ship By Date

Ship After Date

Arrive By Date

Cancel By Date

Clients Site ID

MarkFor SiteID

Store ID’s Name

MarkFor DC Code – Destination Store

MarkFor Department Number – Destination Store

  • Dispatch Update - Ability to add / update Retail Compliance data

  • SPS Export to include additional Retail Compliance data

  • Sales Order and Dispatch Detail Views

  • Order Pick Pack → Dispatch List

  • Note that the new Push Dispatch Carton Confirmation is not yet available and is due in the next release

Dispatch Confirmation Cartons

Push data relating to “Retail Compliance” and the Dispatch Cartons used in the Order Pick Pack module including the Serial Shipping Container Code (SsccNumber). This is intended for Clients that use the “Order Pick Pack” module as this makes use of “Dispatch Cartons” and “Serial Shipping Container Codes”.

Confirmation message contains

  • Carton

    • Carton Lines

  • No labels