Costco EDI Solutions
Your Seamless Costco EDI Integration
In today’s brutal retail environment, major retailers like Costco are scratching for every efficiency and every penny they can. This is why Rush Order has expertly crafted its Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) integration for Costco. Rush Order’s turnkey EDI platform enhances the data exchange process and ensures strict routing guide compliance, thus keeping your goods flowing smoothly onto Costco’s shelves and avoiding costly compliance chargebacks.
The Fastest Costco EDI Setup in the Market
Rush Order is renowned for setting up EDI connections at lightning speed. We understand the urgency of setting up your new sales channels, which is why our proprietary methodology enables us to promise completion of your Costco EDI integration in a market leading 2 to 6 weeks. This makes us the fastest in the industry and allows you to hit the ground running sooner.
Mastering the Costco Routing Guide
In addition to our EDI solutions, Rush Order has comprehensive knowledge of the Costco routing guide. In fact, we’ll take care of all routing guide compliance. The routing guide is a set of instructions provided by Costco on how to prepare and ship merchandise to them. Navigating these guides can be complex but, with Rush Order, you don't have to worry. Your SSCC labels will be perfectly generated and applied to the correct area of your cartons and pallets. The correct pallet material will be used and your products will be secured and shipped exactly according to Costco’s specifications.
Rush Order will even manage the scheduling of all freight pickups to hit the prescribed delivery windows in each of your Costco purchase orders (POs), ensuring your products get to where they need to be, on time, every time.
Combatting Costco Compliance Chargebacks
Retailer compliance chargebacks can be a significant setback for physical product brands. These are fees charged by retailers like Costco when suppliers like you fail to comply with their guidelines. Unfortunately, major retailers often attempt to impose frivolous and incorrect chargebacks.
Having the Rush Order team on your side is crucial in these scenarios. We're seasoned in disputing such chargebacks, ensuring your business isn't unfairly penalized. Our experience and expertise in retailer compliance and chargeback dispute management can save you from unnecessary costs and protect your bottom line.
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Rush Order: Your Partner in Costco EDI Success
Whether you're a new business just starting out or a seasoned player looking to streamline your operations, Rush Order has the EDI solutions you need. With our speed, knowledge, and experience, we'll ensure your business stays ahead of the curve.
Embrace the power of Costco EDI and routing guide compliance with Rush Order today. With us, you're not just getting a service provider; you're getting a partner committed to your success. Don't let retailer compliance chargebacks slow you down. Let us take on the challenge and keep your business moving forward.
Get in touch with our team today to learn more about how we can help your business thrive.
Common Costco EDI Document Types
Rush Order manages a comprehensive range of EDI document types with Costco, including:
Purchase Orders (850): We streamline the process of receiving and acknowledging purchase orders from Costco.
Advance Ship Notices (856): We efficiently manage the transmission of shipping notices, giving Costco real-time information about your shipments.
Invoices (810): Our EDI solutions simplify the invoicing process, ensuring Costco receives your invoices promptly and accurately.
Sales Reports (852): We assist with the transmission of sales reports, providing Costco with crucial insights into product performance.
Inventory Inquiry / Advice (846): We manage the exchange of 846 documents, providing real-time inventory updates to Costco. This critical information helps maintain optimal stock levels, preventing stock-outs or overstocking, and enabling more effective supply chain management.
Purchase Order Acknowledgement (855): We help acknowledge purchase orders, confirming the receipt and acceptance of orders from Costco.
Learn more about the many other EDI integrations Rush Order supports.
Focus on selling to Costco buyers, not defending your supply chain performance to them
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Your new proprietary EDI software and testing methodology lives up to its name… Rush Order. We get you ready to accept purchase orders from major retailers faster than anyone in the market. Advanced shipment notifications (ASNs), invoices, sell through reporting, and other standard EDI files are exchanged with your critical channel partners correctly and promptly on your behalf.
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Don’t settle for 99% or 99.9% when it comes to hitting your most important channel partners’ delivery windows.
Hit your forecasts, avoid chargebacks, and succeed in retail with Rush Order.
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We follow retailer’s routing guides perfectly.
However, your Rush Order system watches for frivolous chargebacks from your retail partners. And, your Rush Order team will jump in to help expertly dispute those chargebacks and get you paid.
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Get paid in full and on time. Rush Order’s A/R team stands ready to help your team navigate the labyrinth of retailers’ A/P departments.
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When products are returned to vendor (RTV) and stock rotations happen, your Rush Order reverse logistics team will accurately verify items received. We ensure you are not giving away more returned product credits to your retail partners than they are entitled to.
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Let us take the reigns on retail logistics so you can focus on what you do best… Building and selling awesome products to retailers!
Through email, live chat, and phone, you'll get to know your Rush Order account management team by name and trust they will respond quickly to address your most mission-critical questions and requests.
Backed by practical reporting
Keeping you in control of your brand
Setup retailer EDI connections 50% faster than the competition
There are no 4+ month EDI connection lead times here. Rush Order’s propriety EDI connections are fast and simple to configure. Start accepting Purchase Orders in 2 to 6 weeks.
Ship to retailer distribution centers and stores
Rush Order will take care of all retailer routing guide and SSCC label compliance, and we stand behind our performance. With 99.99% on time delivery, you can confidently sell your brand’s capabilities to any retail buyer.
Same day fulfillment for “.com” drop-shipments
Orders in by noon local time, and later in some cases, will ship same day. We’ll even include the retailer’s branded packing list and ship on their carrier account if desired.
Global Coverage
Your Rush Order fulfillment team can ship to any retailer worldwide, especially when our global footprint of warehouses is in use. Learn more about our worldwide operations.
Freight scheduling and delivery window management
Your Rush Order team will take care of all truck scheduling on your behalf. We deliver on time within retailers’ desired windows 99.99% of the time.
Chargeback Dispute Management
Retailers, especially in North America, are notorious for their chargeback schemes. Rush Order’s software and expert team stand ready to help dispute incorrectly assessed chargebacks and get you paid in full.
Your Costco EDI connection live in weeks, not months
Rush Order’s proprietary EDI software platform and easy 6-step onboarding process get you up and running with any major retailer quicker than ever.
Sample Retailers Rush Order ships to and connects with via EDI
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“From our first meeting, the people at Rush Order were straightforward, gave us real-life examples of success and failures to think about, and embraced our business as their own. While their systems are very useful, it is the people you reach out to to get things done, and Rush Order gets things done.”
— George, VP Sales, Zolt
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