For Retailers
Better decisions.
Healthier planet.
You can’t comply with regulations, respond to consumer pressure, or make more sustainable choices if you don't know what a product’s ingredients mean for your business (azodicarbonamide, anyone?). We analyze the ingredients and chemistry of consumer goods, helping you sell with confidence.
Retailer Benefits
Regulations, operational needs, and sustainability requirements make moving products in and out of stores complicated. Our accurate classifications and decisioning tools make it easier by automating your work.
Better Compliance
Get products where they need to go safely and compliantly. We match product data to over 7,000 regulations, providing precise classifications on demand for EHS, storage, shipping, and waste.
Smoother Supply Chains
Answer critical questions like, “Can I ship this?” and “How do I safely store this?” once and for all. We help retailers reduce costs from over-classification by better understanding risk.
Greater Sustainability
Divert back-of-store waste safely and responsibly. At the click of a button, associates become experts in determining hazardous waste, how best to recycle, and safe donation opportunities.
Faster Speed to Shelf
Breeze through ingredient verification programs and the item management process. From simple compliance approval to clean ingredient screening, we help you verify products instantly and stock products faster.
How It Works
Fast, easy product registration.
In a matter of minutes, suppliers can provide all the product information we need to cross-reference 7,000+ classifications in our Product Intelligence PlatformTM.
Data and computation in action.
The product data flows through our algorithms and machine learning models, rendering its Product GenomeTM—the chemical and physical properties that make each product unique.
Compliance and business decisions.
The Product GenomeTM is evaluated against all regulatory possibilities and your custom business rules to ensure accurate decisions every time.
From data to analysis to action.
Our data and reporting facilitate smarter handling and disposal decisions back of store and across the supply chain, helping you identify and solve problems.
With great compliance comes great possibility.
SmarterX puts a vast amount of data power at retailers’ fingertips. We start by making sure the products on your shelves are compliant. Then the big possibilities can begin.
How else can SmarterX power your retail business?
Retail Insights & Reporting
Track and gain insights on compliance, EHS, and sustainability with real-time dashboards.
Waste Diversion
Divert waste, lower costs, and increase sustainability with data-driven decisioning.
Hassle-Free Merchandising
Verify claims, keep harmful chemicals out, and get products on shelves faster.
Supply Chain Transformation
Speed up distribution, boost ecommerce, and ship more efficiently.
For Developers & Data Teams
Seamlessly integrate SmarterX data and APIs into your operations to unlock unprecedented efficiency and growth in your business. Safer storage, increased donations, and better shipping are just a few of the many ways we can help.
Product Intelligence On Demand
Data services and APIs put our product classifications and intelligence inside your tech stack for whenever you need them.
Instant Shipping Classifications
Real-time sharing of UPC shipping classifications, accessible by your distribution centers, 3PL, and shipping partners.
Product Claims Verification
Query products in your assortment for ingredient-free claims and send data in real time to your technology platforms.
Smarter Back Of Store Operations
API calls for recycling, donations, hazardous waste, and more—all sent to your tech stack or third party partners.
Case Study
We connected every attribute of the environmentally-sensitive and regulated products on the retailer’s shelves to regulatory requirements and their waste diversion and reclamation goals. The result? A safer workforce, increased environmental compliance, new operational efficiencies, and better decisions that reduced environmental impact.
Our Retail Data Partners
Smarter Blog
Smarter Sorting Rebrands as SmarterX, a Data Platform Helping 1,700+ Clients Across Retail and Consumer Goods
BOULDER, COLO., February 16, 2023 – Smarter Sorting, a leader in using data to transform retail operations from compliance to sustainability, today announced the rebranding of Smarter Sorting to SmarterXTM.
SmarterXTM is a retail and consumer goods data company that provides product intelligence, regulatory classifications, and decisioning to retailers, consumer goods companies and the logistics industry. The product intelligence provided by SmarterX helps its clients make, move and market products in the most compliant, efficient, and sustainable ways possible.
The company’s rebrand and new name follows a year of 3X growth. In 2022, the company added new clients from the retail and consumer goods industries, as well as developing new integrations with retail inventory software and non-profits such as Feeding America. At the same time, SmarterX has relocated its headquarters to Boulder, Colorado, a city known as a magnet for technology companies and sustainability entrepreneurs.
“We’re proud of our roots and we’re passionate about our evolution.” said Jacqueline Claudia, CEO of SmarterXTM. “From the start, we focused on helping companies and organizations comply with environmental regulations. Today, we’re achieving our early vision for the company to not only power better waste diversion but also help our clients and their partners, up and down the supply chain, be more efficient and more sustainable.”
New APIs, including SmarterX’s unique Back of Store Solution (BOSSTM) APIs, are helping retailers be more sustainable while reducing costs. Moreover, the company’s ability to send valuable data such as fast, accurate shipping classifications is helping companies make better choices when it comes to ecommerce, environmental impact, and supply chain automation.
Dave Andre who recently joined SmarterX as Chief Product and Technology Officer - and has extensive experience including Group CTO at Trustly and Founder & CEO at Cartera - noted that, “The new name, SmarterX, is fitting for a company that helps retailers, brands and supply chain partners in many unique ways make accurate real-time decisions for more sustainable and profitable business.”
He went on to add, “Our extensive product data, including chemical formulation, computational chemistry analytics, and detailed rules engine, powers the many ways we’re helping our clients. From transportation to storage and from verifying ingredient-free claims to ensuring returns are sustainably handled, SmarterX enables enterprises to make mission-critical product handling decisions that are good for business and the planet.”
About SmarterX
Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, SmarterX™, formerly known as Smarter Sorting, helps companies make better decisions to make, market, and move consumer products. Its customers include the world’s biggest CPG brands, leading warehouse clubs, big box retail, and national grocery chains. The company’s customers use its Product Intelligence Platform™ to gain product insights and identify how to best handle consumer products across the supply chain, to remain compliant, avoid fines, and reduce their environmental impact. The company has won awards for innovation and impact, including Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas and Most Innovative Companies, BuiltIn’s Best Place to Work, as well as a Real Leader Impact Award and the SEAL Sustainable Innovation Award. Smarter Sorting is an Unreasonable Impact company. Learn more at smarterx.com.
Media Contact:
Natalie Rizk, SmarterX
press@smarterx.com
The Product Intelligence Platform™: The single source of truth for accurate product classification
At SmarterX, we put sustainability into action, especially when it comes to classifying consumer products.
Inaccurate, slow and error-prone classification methods leave:
- Retailers with uncertainty about store level product compliance
- Stakeholders vulnerable to regulatory fines and supply chain delays
- Shipping companies and regulated waste haulers with logistical dilemmas
A platform for peace of mind
The Product Intelligence Platform™️ is a secure, cloud-based database linking our retail partners and brands to fast and accurate regulatory product classifications.
The Product Intelligence Platform™️ is the place where products are classified. It's a platform for retailers and brand manufacturers to collaborate. Retailers can manage all their hazardous and regulated products. Brands have an easy, frictionless way to share their product data. The result: retailers and brands can make decisions using accurate product data.
We recently completed registration for all regulated products for a major retailer with 2,200+ stores. Products registered shot up over 30% in the past 3 months to meet the retailer's registration deadline.
"The registration process was very easy. I didn’t expect our products to be reviewed and approved so quickly - and yet they were. I am very happy with the Product Intelligence Platform!” - Edward Ro, Pureboost
Our Product Intelligence Platform™️ is at the heart of delivering impressive results in three key areas:
1) Accurate product classifications
Brands register their products by entering a few details to get the most accurate product classifications, without revealing confidential information.
2) Instant regulatory and compliance decisions
With the Back of Store System (BOSS), retailers get waste codes, transportation regulations and disposal classifications for every product on their shelves.
3) Detailed EHS reports and insights
Through Tableau dashboards and tracking of EHS/ESG metrics, retailers and brands can access a comprehensive suite of reporting and insights.
With our platform, registering products is simple. Brands can register products one-by-one, or in bulk. Check out our step-by-step product registration guide.
Data from the source
We collect a vast amount of data on everyday consumer products. Currently, we are in the process of registering the entire catalog (3,600+ products) of the world’s largest consumer goods company.
- We only collect product information from trusted sources to make sure we have the most accurate data.
- We only ask for information we need. Full product formulation and proprietary data is likely not required for accurate classification.
- We fill in the gaps with additional product data from trusted sources like SmartLabel, 1WorldSync or Salsify.
Mind your Rs and Cs: Classifications translated into Regulation and Compliance
We are the first to take a computational approach to product classifications. We use machine learning, computational chemistry and regulatory AI to marry our millions of product data points with over 7,000 rules and regulations, some of which are listed below:
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
International Air Transport Association (IATA)
Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC)
Department of Transportation (DOT)
California Air Resources Board (CARB)
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG)
A Real Leaders Eco Innovation Award Winner
The Product Intelligence Platform™️ has been recognized by Real Leaders as a Top 50 winner in the 2022 Real Leaders® Eco Innovation Awards, a distinction that celebrates innovative environmental solutions for the greater good.
The Product Intelligence Platform™ is being used by over 1,600 brand manufacturers who supply some of the biggest US supermarket chains and one of the world’s largest warehouse clubs.
Placing product intelligence in the hands of retailers and brands, our Product Intelligence Platform™ is the platform you can trust.
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