Ever wonder what retailers are doing with all the different data attributes vendors provide them via GDSN? Wakefern is continuing to roll-out GDSN to their vendors and as part of this initiative they have shared how they use the data.

 

 

Field

Purpose

 

Net Content

Store Shelf Labels to avoid fines

 

Family Coupon Code

Used for coupon scanning

 

Case Dimensions & Weight

Cubing of trucks, ensuring that trucks are legal weight

 

Item Dimensions, Peg Hole

Used for planograming

 

Pallet Ti/Hi

Purchasing, logistics

 

Alternate Category Code

Category Management


Wakefern is driving their internal processes off of the GDSN data. This is allowing them to optimize their business processes and avoids having individual departments having to separately gather this information from suppliers.