Advance Shipping Notice or ASN 857 is a lot easier than any other receiving method.
What is it?
An electronic data file, containing shipment details, that is transmitted in advance of delivery to the store.
Shipment derails are based on the actual products that were loaded into the vendor's delivery vehicle prior to its departure from the warehouse.
So basically you scan the license plate number (SSCC-18 bar code) on the pallet, that license plate number contains all the items that are on the pallet.
So now you don't have to individually count and scan every item on the pallet since the data is on that bar code.
Only when the system gives you a spot audit do you have to individually scan and count the actual items on the pallet.
If you are DSD receiving you should be taking the Annual ACT certification for DSD.
There should be a manual on the TRAnet (Barney web) for you to look at.
When you get online at work you can Google search for "DSD receiving", there is like 200 pages of info for DSD.
If you don't know what you are doing back there or even feel uncomfortable receiving, you need to get trained and ask a lot of questions.
That's a lot of money your store could be loosing if you are not following proper DSD procedures.
So instead of counting you just scan the barcode on the paper and it will tell you what's suppose to be on that pallet? Sounds like an easy way for the vendors to steal things and have the store pay for it.
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Typically ASN vendors are not the "problem vendors".
It is a very lengthy process to become an ASN certified vendor for Kroger.
No vendor is to be trusted that is why they have random audits.
It very difficult for ASN vendors to cheat the system........
A vendor must pre-qualify as outlined in the Kroger ASN-857/Random Audit Prequalification Packet.
After prequalification and on a division basis the vendor enters into a probationary period of 8 weeks (56 days) during which every case in every delivery is audited. During this time: Communications are tested. Accuracy levels are measured as an average across the entire division.
At the conclusion of the probationary period, if the vendor achieved an 8-week average of 99.8% accuracy or better, their audit level may be scheduled to drop at 25% increments until random audit reaches 10%.
Throughout the division, 10% of the vendors delivered cases are randomly flagged for audit.
All 824 data from audited deliveries feeds into business objects and a vendor data warehouse. The Kroger divisional business owner as well as a vendor contact pull a daily report and review accuracy ratings.
If a single deliverys accuracy rating is below 98.5%, the Kroger divisional business owner and a vendor associate simultaneously investigate the discrepancy and within 48 hours collaboratively decide upon a source of error.
If a Kroger associate or system glitch proves to be the cause of the problem, the vendor remains at 10% audit and problem resolution is delegated to the correct Kroger contact.
If a vendor associate proves to be the cause of the problem, the vendor is placed back on 100% audit for another 8-week probationary period after which their eligibility will be reevaluated.
If a vendors running 30-day accuracy rating drops below 99.8%, they are placed back on 100% audit while the problem is investigated.
Oh, i understand now. Thank you for the very helpful and informative post, Anon!
Now that I recall he did mention something like this going down several months ago but i had forgotten about until reading your post. No wonder that this particular vendor started getting this type of scan in!
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Well, I ran my first ASN today. Got very confused. The handheld told me that there were 2 missing pallets(I accepted them because they were right in front of me) and that I had to detail scan everything.
In any case the count and total were right at the end for the invoice. I really hope I did it correctly.
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