Lowe's
provides vendors with the
opportunity to receive product
activity data via EDI 852.
The EDI 852 data is used
to report actual unit sales,
on-hand, on-order and order
receipts. Vendors are expected
to use the data to identify
items deserving increased
service levels and fill rates
as well as those targeted
for inventory reduction.
Lowe's requires vendors to
document how the data will
use use and how it will benefit
both parties.
If you
are a Lowe's vendor you
can read the EDI 852 data
documentation on their web
site
Item activity
can be received for all items
by location. This detailed
data can be very useful if
the vendor has the tools to
process the data and quickly
analyze activity. The key
is to have the tool do the
work so your administrative
team is not stuck with hours
of data manipulation in Excel
or worse yet on printed reports.
It is important
to note that Lowe's EDI 852
data and data available via
the vendor DART program handle
on-hand differently. Talk
to your Lowe's representative
to understand the differences.
If
you want to learn how to handle
Lowe's data quickly and effectively
without any manual processing
check out our Accelerated
Analytics demo.
We are currently working with
Lowe's data.
Detailed
Notes on Lowe's EDI 852 documents
Lowe's
provides the following fields
on their EDI 852 files: quantity
sold units, quantity sold
dollars, quantity on-hand
units, quantity on-hand dollars,
quantity on order units, quantity
on order dollars, quantity
on requisition from RDC units,
quantity on requisition from
RDC dollars, quantity received
units, quantity received dollars,
requisition quantity received
units, requisition quantity
received dollars. Not all
fields are always populated
in all files.
Sales
units and sales dollars will
match between EDI 852 and
Lowe's Vendor DART. But inventory
on hand units may be different
due to damaged inventory.
Vendor part numbers are not
transmitted in EDI 852. Only
the Lowe's SKU number is sent.
Canadian EDI 852 is transmitted
in Canadian Dollars and US
sales are transmitted in US
dollars. Note that Vendor
DART is not available for
Canada.
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