Compliance

IBCA Compliance Program: Making Our Supply Chain More Effective

A number of companies in our supply chains have taken the time to comply with data record and labeling standards that will increase the efficiency for all of us. You can also download bar code related item records.

Supplier Compliance Improvement Request Form Click here to download
This form is completed by a customer to report label compliance problems to the supplier.

Find Out More About Compliance:

  • Understanding why to comply Click
  • Navigation to all related documents Click
  • Understanding some changes from the past Click
  • Simple label evaluation form (Customer to Supplier) Click
  • Item data files Click

Supplier Compliance Form Click here to download
This form is completed by a supplier to show customers their level of compliance.

Find Out More About Compliance:

  • Understanding why to comply Click
  • Navigation to all related documents Click
  • Understanding some changes from the past Click
  • Simple label evaluation form (Supplier to customer) Click
  • Item data files Click

Item Data Files

Companies are to provide copies of their inventory files, including U.P.C. numbers, in electronic format (see fields below). All IBCA files are zipped, Excel™ files that can be imported into another word processing, spreadsheet or data base program. Fields are in the following order:

  • CATALOG NUMBER (Alternate Part Number);
  • U.P.C. NUMBER (12 digits);
  • DESCRIPTION (Text field);
  • UNIT OF MEASURE (i.e. EA, FT, LB);
  • PACKAGE INDICATOR LEVEL 0 (quantity field; in most cases the quantity will be "1");
  • PACKAGE INDICATOR LEVEL 1 (quantity field; "R" for reserved);
  • PACKAGE INDICATOR LEVEL 2 (quantity field);
  • PACKAGE INDICATOR LEVEL 3 (quantity field);
  • PACKAGE INDICATOR LEVEL 4 (quantity field);
  • PACKAGE INDICATOR LEVEL 5 (quantity field);
  • PACKAGE INDICATOR LEVEL 6 (quantity field);
  • PACKAGE INDICATOR LEVEL 7 (quantity field);
  • STANDARD PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (SPIN) (Only if applicable)

These files are not intended to compete with pricing services or CD ROM catalog services that have a lot more information than the fields shown above. The files are helpful to companies who just need to add the U.P.C. number and other basic information to their data base.

When retrieved, each supplier is downloaded individually. Once files are downloaded, users will employ a file compression utility to unzip the files. Then, they will import the file into a word processing, spreadsheet or data base program.

Click here to download a sample Excel™ spreadsheet used to send the file to IBCA.

Click Here to Download the Files

 

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