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Welcome to the Dot Foods Community Space

Welcome to the Dot Foods Community Space
Dot Foods, Inc. is a founding member of the Foodservice GS1 US Standards initiative which facilitates GS1 Standards adoption for complete and accurate product information. This mission will be accomplished through voluntary individual company adoption and implementation of GS1 Standards by foodservice manufacturers, distributors, and operators.

Dot Foods is the first company to synchronize data via the Global Data Synchronization Networkâ„¢ in the Foodservice Industry.

Please begin synchronizing your product data with Dot Foods now by reviewing the documents provided on this page and filling out the Dot Foods Trading Partner Form if you have not done so already.

Steps to Participate with the Dot Foods Initiative:
1) Complete the Supplier GDSN Registration Form by clicking → Dot Foods GLN Registration Form. Once the form is complete, reach out to your master data analyst.
2) Once your MDA confirms the setup is complete in Dot’s system, please work with your data pool provider to publish all available items via GDSN. Inform your MDA once that is completed.
3) Your MDA will review the items published and provide an audit report which will show any non-compliant items or incomplete publications.
4) All necessary changes and corrections will need to be updated in your data pool and republished via GDSN as the initial load. *Notify your MDA if a GTIN change has been made.
5) Need Help? >Ask a Dot Foods Question

If you are new to using the Community, please take a look at the Welcome & Getting Started with the Community video as well as the space How to Get Started in the Community. Our team is here to help you along the way.

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Activity in Dot Foods

Resolved! GDSN Registration

Hello! Reaching out from GLN 0793216000000 about two failed publication attempts (trying to publish to DOT) for the below GTINs. The rest of the batch (round two on the lists) went through alright, but these two were caught somehow. Can you take a pe...

Dot Foods Initial FAQs

This document is a compilation of questions received, and their associated answers, relative to the DotFoods, Inc. (Dot Foods) data synchronization initiative. It pertains to new and existing manufacturersimplementing data synchronization with Dot F...

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Sync Error 654

I am getting a Sync Error 654: netContent 12 is invalid. I am trying to publish to Dot Foods. How can I fix this? GLN 40850002856017

Abbots by New Contributor
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Dot Foods GDSN Portal Supplier User Guide

Suppliers can use the Dot Foods Supplier GDSN Portal to provide supplementary data attributes. Dot Foods has found that GDSN-ready suppliers might not be ready with a few of the data attributes that are mandatory for Dot Foods. As an aid to supplier...

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Dot Foods GDSN Image Requirements

Images are among the top attributes requested by customers, particularly those who order online. You will find reports on your adherence to GDSN image requirements in your monthly quality update. Click HERE for the Dot Foods GDSN Image Requirements ...

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Dot Foods Implementation Guide

This document is intended for suppliers who will be sending product data to Dot Foods via the GlobalData Synchronization Network (GDSN). Dot Foods requires all product data to be published via GDSNand requires suppliers to be registered with a GDSN ...

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PUBLICATIONS

Is there a way when uploading a fuse file in item management to pinpoint specifically what 'errors' and 'warnings'  prevent a material from being published? 

audrey by New Contributor II
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Dot Foods Publication Error

Hello,  I am trying to publish my items to DOT Foods and get the same publication error for each item I try to publish - "Product Description is required." This error shows up twice. I can't click into this error for more information, and it won't ta...

PB02 by New Contributor
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Specific errors of a Trading partner.

Hi Team,Could you please help with below requests from Dot foods?Thank you.00000446582702Individual Unit Maximum Size UOM - value "FTQ" not found in code set list10791669032149Bi-Level Each UOM - value "G21" not found in code set list

niteishk by Contributor
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DOT requirements of Image fields

Good morning, I have several items with the below CIC message. Can you please tell me where I find the fields: Has Case Image, Has Open Case, Has Each Image, etc. I've looked in the digital asset data screen, with no luck. I would really appreciate a...

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A_Flower by Contributor III
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Resolved! Dot Foods

Hi All! I received an email from Dot Foods stating that they will now be accepting documentation through GDSN. Is there a way to upload pdfs on an item? Below are the documentations that they would now like to receive through GDSN.  

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sbrewster by New Contributor II
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Resolved! Publication error

Hi TeamWhile publishing an item 10045200025405 to Dot Foods, I am getting an error "Your parent and child direct link quantities should match your parent Item Total Count of All Products (totalQuantityOfNextLowerTradeItem)"Could you please review thi...

niteishk by Contributor
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Images and naming specs

I have a customer (DOT foods) who is requesting "lifestyle" and "open case" images.  I have these images loaded into GDSN, but there is not way to call the image "lifestyle" or "open case".  Currently our lifestyle images are named "application" imag...

KellyRose by New Contributor
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Publishing with DOT

In Pre-Prod we are starting the process of publishing with DOT.  on GTIN 10016000321613 we are getting several warnings that I need guidance to resolve.  On the package with GTIN 00016000312616 I am getting a warning that: Serving size is required:  ...

TaraDeJong by New Contributor II
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Global Product Category Code

I am getting a message when verifying a GTIN - it states that the Nutrient Quantity is requested if Global Product Category Code is in the GPC segment 50000000 - Food/Beverage/Tobacco.  The particular GTIN has a GPC of 10000272 - Vegetables Prepared/...

lflanary by Contributor II
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image naming

Is there any chance my images are being renamed somehow?  I have a recipient telling me that some of my naming conventions are incorrect.  We name them all the same.  But on their end they are showing up different.  Why or how would that happen??

Errors

So what happened over the weekend?  I came in today to over 700 synchronization errors (we were always 0 here) and 100 more recipient requests reviews.  The sync errors seem to be some new validation?  If all of following three attributes are provide...

Resolved! Inner Pack Errors

I am receiving errors from DOT when trying to validate several items. Then if I bypass these errors and save I receive a "Review" sync status reports. I have reached out to our DOT representative and he states everything is validating fine on his end...

A_Flower by Contributor III
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Resolved! DOT foods publication

I have published an otem out to DOT foods and it looks as if everything is good.  Operation shows ItemStoreNotification, does this indicate thatt he trade partner has action to complete the data pull?

credcat7 by Contributor II
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Feature Benefit

Is there a way to find all the customers that want features and benefits?  I am trying to gather information for a meeting.

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