Case Study: Loblaw Companies achieves enhanced vendor compliance and end-to-end product traceability with Bamboo Rose

Loblaw Companies - Customer Case Study

Loblaw, one of Canada’s largest food retailers with roughly $48B CAD in annual revenue, 3,200 suppliers and more than 1,000 corporate and franchised stores, faced significant quality-assurance challenges across its private-label and national brands. The QA team struggled with incomplete facility-level certification data, fragmented and non-digital vendor information, limited visibility across product categories, and time-consuming traceability processes that increased compliance risk and administrative burden.

Loblaw implemented Bamboo Rose’s multi-enterprise Vendor Management and Supplier Collaboration platform to centralize GFSI documentation, extend traceability to production facilities and ship locations, automate vendor certification with ERP alerts, and provide real-time compliance data for procurement. The result: enhanced vendor collaboration and accountability, extended product traceability, increased cross-organizational transparency, faster sourcing in critical categories, more compliance audits completed, and reduced regulatory and operational risk.

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