Welcome to our Routing Guide!

Dear Vendor,                                                                                      

Welcome to the Valleylab a division of Tyco Healthcare Vendor Routing Guide. Inside are your standard routing and packaging instructions for shipping your merchandise to Valleylab a division of Tyco Healthcare receiving locations throughout the United States.  

We encourage you to share this guide by distributing it internally throughout your organization. Using this guide will ensure that you are receiving the most efficient processing of your merchandise and invoices. This guide provides up-to-date routing instructions for small package, and LTL shipments using carriers which provide Valleylab / Tyco Healthcare with reliable service at competitive rates. 

The instructions in this guide supersede all previous routing instructions, written or oral. Please pay special attention to our routing matrix instructions, packing shipping standard SOP dated 11/11/2004  and our routing guide “rules” within.  

All transportation costs, detention charges, storage fees or other expenses incurred by Valleylab, a division of Tyco Healthcare because of the Supplier's non-compliance with the terms and conditions of this routing guide shall be charged to the Supplier.

The routing and packaging instructions in this guide are an integral part of our vendor agreement. These standards apply when shipping to any Valleylab / Tyco Healthcare facility, affiliated Valleylab / Tyco Healthcare warehouse or when shipping to a Valleylab / Tyco Healthcare customer. Special requests pertaining to routing that are not covered in this guide must be approved by United States Surgical/ Valleylab / Tyco Healthcare Transportation Department in advance. Non-compliance will result in charge backs to offset any incremental costs incurred in Valleylab / Tyco Healthcare.