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A Faster, More Efficient Way to Manage the Product Listing Process

In a competitive marketplace, speed-to-market is an important success factor.

ECCnet New Item Setup simplifies the product listing process, helping ensure products are brought to market quickly and efficiently. Providing the global standard, mandatory data attributes required to meet Canadian trading partner and regulatory requirements removes the guesswork or confusion that can result in missing or incorrect data, potential delays and lost listing opportunities.

A centralized source for standardized, bilingual product data also optimizes your time and resources, enabling an efficient exchange of quality product data between trading partners from a primary source of truth, streamlining the product listing process.

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I am a:

Data Provider (Manufacturers, Brand-Owners, Brokers, and Distributors)

Data Recipient (Retailers, Foodservice Distributors and Operators, Healthcare Providers)

Benefits to Your Business

Meet Trading Partner Requirements ECCnet New Item Setup eliminates the guesswork through mandatory, standardized data requirements directed by Canadian industry. This ensures you're providing trading partners with the exact data they require for their product listing processes and helps eliminate potential data gaps that can lead to wasted time and potentially missed listing opportunities.
Optimize Your Resources An efficient one-to-many sharing process enables you to load, manage and update your product data in one centralized place. The ability to share your data simultaneously with multiple trading partners, rather than dealing with each individually, saves significant time and costly resources while ensuring trading partners are using the same, accurate product data.
Extended Foodservice Content
Provide trading partners with accurate and complete nutritional data specific to foodservice, including allergens and absolute values for accurate calculation of large batches. You can also provide product data at all product hierarchy levels including item, inner, case and pallet for more efficient ordering, inventory and storage requirements.

The ability to share additional extended foodservice product data and promotional content also helps your trading partners promote your products and supports increased sales opportunities. Additional types of content that can be shared includes:
- Cooking and preparation instructions
- Serving suggestions
- Packaging and storage details
- Product benefits
Reduce Costly Errors Eliminating error-prone, repetitive, manual processes helps reduce costly errors that can result in inaccurate, inconsistent, and incomplete information being shared with your trading partners which can lead to lost listing opportunities.

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Access the Accurate Product Data You Need ECCnet New Item Setup includes the mandatory, standardized attributes directed by industry to ensure trading partners are providing the standardized, accurate, complete, and bilingual product data you require to help inform your product planning and selection process. Product data loaded through ECCnet Registry, Canada's largest bilingual product registry, is validated against industry defined rules, helping ensure data quality while meeting Canadian trading partner and regulatory requirements.
Optimize Your Resources Save time and costly resources by seamlessly accessing the information you need from multiple trading partners through a primary source of truth, rather than tracking and managing product information individually by trading partner.
Extended Foodservice Content
Access to extended product information and complete nutritional data specific to foodservice, including allergens and absolute values for accurate calculation of large batches. Through Item Centre, you can also access promotional content to promote products and help drive increased sales, including:
- Cooking and preparation instructions
- Serving suggestions
- Packaging and storage details
- Product benefits
Access to product data at all product hierarchy levels including item, inner, case and pallet enables more efficient ordering, inventory management and storage requirements.
Reduce Costly Errors Manual order taking, and inventory management can be inaccurate and lead to costly errors. ECCnet New Item Setup provides you with the tools that support business processes, helping reduce the possibility of overstocks, out-of-stocks, and shrinkage.