Regulatory watch for wholesalers and B2B distributors
Product standards, documentation duties, regulated payment terms, e-invoicing: a distributor is liable for the compliance of what it puts on the market, even without manufacturing it. The watch tracks the texts that touch your actual product families.
In your day-to-day
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Alerts on standards changes in the families you distribute — CE marking, REACH, safety data sheets.
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Tracking of product recalls and withdrawals published on your references and suppliers.
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E-invoicing 2026-2027 countdown applied to your company profile and client flows.
A typical scenario
Eight thousand references, forty suppliers — a third of them outside the EU: a hardware and PPE wholesaler is liable for everything it puts on the market, with no in-house lawyer.
- 01
An EN standard on protective gloves is revised: the agent pulls the 60 references concerned and the list of suppliers to query about updated certificates.
- 02
A substance joins REACH Annex XIV: crossed with the catalogue’s safety data sheets, three references surface with their withdrawal deadline.
- 03
A batch recall published on a Saturday by an Asian supplier: by Monday 8 AM, the list of clients who received it is ready for the withdrawal.
What changes
Product compliance stops resting on supplier good faith. The company knows what to check, on which references, before a market inspector or a key account asks the question.
Order of magnitude
Working assumptions
- →monitoring the texts applicable to 8,000 references would take 3 to 4 hours of qualified reading a week
- →2 to 3 alerts a month that actually apply to the catalogue
In the order of 15 hours of monthly reading avoided — and above all, no standards deadline discovered during an inspection or a key-account audit.
Indicative estimate built on average sector assumptions — it gets recalibrated on your actual volumes during scoping.
What eats your days
- →
Orders arrive by email, WhatsApp and phone — and get retyped by hand into the ERP, with the errors that come with it.
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Client balances slip because collection comes after order processing, and the rep discovers the blocked account in front of the client.
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Supplier shortages and backorders surface at picking time — too late to offer an alternative.
How it works
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Official sources under watch
Official journals, sector authorities, tax bulletins: the agent reads the sources that count for your business, every day, without fatigue.
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Filtered by your context
The agent knows your sector, your thresholds, your activities. A text about e-invoicing for large companies does not alert you if you are a small business — unless the timeline catches up with you.
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Actionable alert, not a raw link
Each alert says what changes, from when, what it implies for you, and cites the source text. The decision is yours; the reading is the agent’s.
Typical results
100%
of your sector’s official sources read every day
D+1
between a text being published and your alert
0
regulatory deadlines discovered too late
Orders of magnitude observed in production; your diagnostic sets your own baseline and targets.
Frequently asked questions
Can the watch be limited to our product families?+
That is the principle: the scope is built on your actual catalogue — each alert names the references and suppliers concerned, not a generic regulatory bulletin.
Does it cover our suppliers’ product recalls?+
Yes: official recall channels are monitored continuously and crossed with your catalogue, so a reference is pulled from sale before a client receives it.
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