Listening to our members, we have developed a number of solutions to bring value to their organizations and help meet member needs. These include Web-based tools, directories, and research and advisory services.

Supplier Solutions

• Compliance Clearinghouse™
  This Web-based solution provides suppliers with a single place to go for changes to retailers' vendor guides, alerts that can be tailored to the business unit, appropriate retail contact information, and a customizable portfolio for easy access to strategic customers.
• TPRegistry™
  This Web tooled designed for retailer access, allows suppliers to proactively manage all appropriate company contact information in a central and secure database that is clear and easy to navigate for retail customers. Supplier contact departments include IT, AP, Customers Service, Finance, and more.
• Research and Advisory Services
  VCF and TPMA offer extensive experience in the retailer-supplier execution and performance optimization. Through a proprietary four-phase process, we will actionable information and insights to resolve your most pressing supply chain performance issues.
• Deduction Management, Cure and Prevention
  VCF has partnered with Smyth Solutions to deliver best-in-class Cfari™ driven Deduction Management Cures. We deliver a virtuous cycle of identification, resolution, and corrective action for your controllable process errors as well as customer errors. Deductions are your biggest fixable profit drain, as well as a major cause of customer dissatisfaction.

Retailer Solutions

• Retail Insights Supplier Performance Training
  Few retail organizations have a corporate-wide view of their suppliers, and often are not able to maintain the critical supplier contacts in an accessible format. VCF customizes regional supplier seminars for both individual and category-specific retailers – at no cost. These seminars: 1) provide a cost effective means for on-boarding suppliers to major initiatives; 2) serve as a mechanism for getting feedback before roll out; and 3) supplement a retailer's annual summit to engage tier-two and -three suppliers who may have few funds for travel and education. For more information on this service, contact Mark Jones.
• TPRegistry™
  This web-based solution provides retailers with supplier contact information for IT, AP, Customer Service, Compliance, Finance, Logistics and more. The secure log-in ensures that only you will have access to your supplier list. An annual fee includes unlimited updates, 24/7 access to your data - even downloads for your use in supplier communications.
• Hosting the VCF Compliance Clearinghouse™
  VCF will roll out the Compliance Clearinghouse, password protected and secure, to your entire supplier base as a supplement to your communications program. The Compliance Clearinghouse helps you to proactively communicate changes to your supplier requirements. This can serve supplement to your vendor portal and provides proactive alerts to changes. It also provides you with an archive of changes for an accurate record of past practices. For more information, contact Mark Jones.
• Hosting of Retailers' Supplier Portals
  VCF provides an efficient and cost-effective way to get started on a supplier portal vs. expensive Web platform licenses and service contracts. We will host your portal, which will be completely integrated with VCF's alerts engine and changes database. The secure portal is password protected and can seamlessly bolt on to TPRegistry™, our comprehensive supplier contact database. For more information, contact Mark Jones.
• Research and Advisory Services
  VCF and TPMA offer extensive experience in the retailer-supplier execution and performance optimization. Through a proprietary four-phase process, we will actionable information and insights to resolve your most pressing supply chain performance issues.