A little confusion in the DEX world about how a vendor gets a CommID. There has been a document floating around saying you will get a CommID when you purchase DEX software from your software vendor. Actually a CommID is assigned by GS1, the same organization that assigns the company prefix for UPC codes.
Contact GS1
Ewing Township, New Jersey 08628
United States
Phone: + 1 937 435 3870
website: www.gs1us.org
Email: info@gs1us.org
In a recent email sent out to their vendors, Krogers stated: To streamline our DSD process, Kroger is requiring all DSD vendors delivering to stores directly or via third party (Fed Ex/UPS/Carrier) to
Walmart is requiring a value in the G8204 Receiver's Location Number field. This value should be the store number used by Walmart without any leading zeros or other padding.
Thought I would pass along this list of technical requirements for doing DEX with WalMart that I recently received from a DSD distributor client - Walmart will NOT fail the record, due to parsing and