As you are aware Bidvest is the contracted supplier to Compass Group in New Zealand across several categories. 13 of our 16 Foodservice Distribution Centres service Compass sites (excluding Greymouth, Queenstown and Invercargill).
Due to the specialised requirements of Compass Group, any product used in their sites must have a full set of nutrition and allergen information available and supplied in the attached excel format. The supplied information will then be integrated into their Saffron Catering Management system. Please see attached letter from Compass that explains why the product info is a) mandatory if you supply the Compass Group and b) why it is required. It is also vital to remember you must update this information if changes to product specs are made.
Please note this is not a request - it is a mandatory requirement if your products are supplied to Compass Group. This information needs checking/completing and returning by 5th February.
There is a major OPRI Upgrade being undertaken on the Bidvest Direct Supplier portal at the moment which we are envisaging being live mid February which will give you the ability to export and import data in an easy process and we will advise more on this at that time and the information required by Compass is being built into the upgrade. The upgrade will also make it much easier for suppliers to add and maintain information manually and will be in-line with NZFSA guidelines.
However, to enable us to supply Compass with their product information we have attached a spreadsheet containing your Company’s products that we supply to the DHBs which we have extracted out of OPRI and would ask you to please review this VERY CAREFULLY with regards to its accuracy and update the spreadsheet and send back it back to us by close of play Thursday 5th February.
Once we have your spreadsheet back we undertake to import this data back into OPRI on your behalf, therefore please do not update OPRI, but just the spreadsheet.
Things to note on the spreadsheet:
1) If your product has a “Recipe UOM” of “EA”, then the column headed “Weight/Volume Description -on pack” will be blank and we would ask you to add this information.
2) There may also be lines on the spreadsheet with no data from the column “Weight/Volume Description -on pack” and this is because currently there is no data loaded in OPRI, or for some reason the information did not export, either way please complete all relevant information.
3) The Allergen headings are more specific and are in line with the NZFSA packaging guidelines. There are drop downs for changing of the Allergen information – NB every field must have either:-