Wal-Mart's New Data Quality Scorecard Initiative
Wal-Mart recently announced that they will begin to measure and scorecard suppliers on the quality of their GDSN data. Wal-Mart will measure discrepancies between the values provided by the supplier via GDSN and the values that Wal-Mart has in their system or determines from their own measurements.
This initiative extends the validation that Wal-Mart had been performing in matching GTINs and packaging hierarchy quantities to now comparing supplier’s values to Wal-Mart’s values for data attributes such as dimensions and weights.
Wal-Mart will be providing training webinars for suppliers to explain the program and how the scorecards will work. For more information or to sign-up for the Wal-Mart scorecard, please visit www.1sync.org/dataaccuracyscorecard.html.