Thursday, January 31, 2008

Updated FAQ's: Bank Consoliation: Sears ACH Co Names and Ids for EDI 820 Electronic Funds Transfer

"To our EDI Trading Partners:

Please note the following update to the third frequently asked question regarding our upcoming bank change.

Q: What EDI 820 segments will be affected?
A: The data contained in the element N102 (where N101 = PR) and the BPR segment will be changing to reflect updated payer name, routing #, and account #. The format of these segments will not be changing.

Please contact our EDI Support Manager at jritorn@searshc.com with any questions.

Original communication follows:
To our EDI Trading Partners:
This letter addresses the common questions we have received regarding our upcoming bank change. If you have already sent us an email with these questions, please use the information contained in this letter as your answer. We will not be responding to individual emails on these topics.

Q: What date will the bank, account #, and routing # be changing:
A: The planned dates of change are March 2, 2008 for Sears and April 5, 2008 for Kmart.
Q: What are the current & new routing & account #’s for Sears and Kmart?
A: The routing and account #’s can be viewed on the Sears Business Exchange (https://business.sears.com/) and Mykmart.com in the News (http://www.mykmart.com/).
Q: What EDI 820 segments will be affected? *answer updated
A: The data contained in the element N102 (where N101 = PR) and the BPR segment will be changing to reflect updated payer name, routing #, and account #. The format of these segments will not be changing.
Q: I am currently receiving separate payments from Sears and Kmart. Will
these payments be combined as part of this change?
A: If you are currently receiving separate payments for Sears and Kmart, you will continue to receive separate payments. If you currently receive combined payments, they will continue to be combined.
Q: Does this change affect Orchard Hardware?
A: This change does not affect Orchard Hardware. Payments for Orchard
Hardware will continue to go through Harris Bank. Should you need any information not addressed in this FAQ, please send your inquiry to our EDI Support Manager, Jennifer Ritorno, at jritorn@searshc.com.
Beth Ligenza
Director, Merchandise Support
mailto:eligenz@searshc.com

To our EDI Trading Partners:
Effective at the end of February for Sears and the end of March for Kmart, we will be moving our bank payments from Harris (Sears) and Bank of New York (Kmart) to Wachovia. You may notice several changes as a result of this move. Please make sure you have not hard coded any of this information into your current transactions or systems, as they will fail following our move to Wachovia.

The changes you will see are to the bank account numbers and routing numbers, the payer name in the 820, and you will receive your money from Wachovia. You may need to inform your bank of these changes to prevent any delay in the receipt of funds.

The new payer name will reflect Sears Holdings Management Corporation. Again, please make sure that this information is not hard coded in your 820, and that your company does not require any other internal changes to support the new routing and account numbers.

Reminder communication will be sent prior to the change over for Sears and again for Kmart. Questions on this change can be directed to Jennifer Ritorno, EDI Support Manager, jritorn@searshc.com.
Beth Ligenza
Director, Merchandise Support
eligenz@searshc.com"

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Amazon: Upcoming Amazon IP Address Change

"Greetings from Amazon.com EI Operations.

We're writing to inform you of an important upcoming change to Amazon's network system. We will be updating our data centers and expanding the list of IP addresses used to connect to external partners via FTP, AS2 and HTTP.

This update is scheduled to take place on February 29, 2008.

It is vital that by the time this change takes place, you have updated your firewall to allow access to the following IP addresses. Failure to add the necessary access may result in communication failures between your system and Amazon's.

87.238.84.53
87.238.84.64
87.238.80.64
87.238.80.53
207.171.167.101
207.171.172.6
207.171.167.25
207.171.167.26
72.21.196.64
72.21.198.64
207.171.180.101
207.171.191.60

If you have any questions about this process, please contact EI Operations by opening a case in Dropship Central.

We will send a reminder about this approximately one week prior to the upgrade. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Regards,
Amazon.com EI Operations"

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Bank Consolidation: Sears ACH Co Names and Ids

"To our EDI Trading Partners:

This letter addresses the common questions we have received regarding our upcoming bank change. If you have already sent us an email with these questions, please use the information contained in this letter as your answer. We will not be responding to individual emails on these topics.

Q: What date will the bank, account #, and routing # be changing:
A: The planned dates of change are March 2, 2008 for Sears and April 5, 2008 for Kmart.

Q: What are the current & new routing & account #’s for Sears and Kmart?
A: The routing and account #’s are as follows:

Sears EFT Information
Before March 2, 2008 Starting March 2, 2008
Harris Bank Wachovia Bank

Kmart EFT Information
Until April 5, 2008 Starting April 5, 2008
Bank of New York Wachovia Bank

Q: What EDI 820 segments will be affected?
A: The data contained in the element N102 (where N101 = PR) and the BPT segment will be changing to reflect updated payer name, routing #, and account #. The format of these segments will not be changing.


Q: I am currently receiving separate payments from Sears and Kmart. Will these payments be combined as part of this change?

A: If you are currently receiving separate payments for Sears and Kmart, you will continue to receive separate payments. If you currently receive combined payments, they will continue to be combined.

Q: Does this change affect Orchard Hardware?
A: This change does not affect Orchard Hardware. Payments for Orchard Hardware will continue to go through Harris Bank.

Should you need any information not addressed in this FAQ, please send your inquiry to our EDI Support Manager, Jennifer Ritorno, at jritorn@searshc.com.

Beth Ligenza
Director, Merchandise Support
mailto:eligenz@searshc.com



Original communication follows:

Subject: Bank Consolidation: Sears ACH Co Names and IDs
Date: January 23, 2008

To our EDI Trading Partners:

Effective at the end of February for Sears and the end of March for Kmart, we will be moving our bank payments from Harris (Sears) and Bank of New York (Kmart) to Wachovia. You may notice several changes as a result of this move. Please make sure you have not hard coded any of this information into your current transactions or systems, as they will fail following our move to Wachovia.

The changes you will see are to the bank account numbers and routing numbers, the payer name in the 820, and you will receive your money from Wachovia. You may need to inform your bank of these changes to prevent any delay in the receipt of funds.

The new payer name will reflect Sears Holdings Management Corporation. Again, please make sure that this information is not hard coded in your 820, and that your company does not require any other internal changes to support the new routing and account numbers.

Reminder communication will be sent prior to the change over for Sears and again for Kmart. Questions on this change can be directed to Jennifer Ritorno, EDI Support Manager, jritorn@searshc.com.

Beth Ligenza
Director, Merchandise Support
eligenz@searshc.com"

The Home Depot - Updated ISA for the Canadian SAP Project

"Date: January 23, 2008
Subject: Additional Canadian Trading Partner ID for the 820 and 997 Documents

Dear Valued Supplier,
The Home Depot is currently using a US ID 072271711USAP for the 820 Remittance Advice (RA) to send to our Canadian suppliers. Beginning February 28, 2008, we will modify the trading partner identifications to include a Canadian suffix of ‘CAP.' This is a required change due to the implementation of SAP in our Canadian stores in the spring of 2008.

Due to this change, we will need all Canadian Suppliers to accept "072271711CAP" as an ISA ID for the 820 RA document and send it back on the 997 document in addition to the ISA IDs ("072271711USAP" and "072271711CANP") currently being used.

For example, these are the different formats for the ISA ID:
• USAP: 072271711USAP
• CANP: 072271711CANP
• CAP: 072271711CAP

Note:
Each Canadian Supplier is expected to implement these changes on or before 02/28/2008.


Noncompliance with this request to implement these changes will result in unsuccessful 820 and 997 transmissions.

Thanks for your continued support,
The Home Depot EDI Department

Contact Information:
For questions regarding this specfic request, please contact the Supplier Performance Team at Supplier_Performance@homedepot.com."

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Fred Meyer Grand Central Store #00683 Opening Notification

"Dear EDI Trading Partner,

We would like to inform you that, a new Store # 00683 will be operational on April 16, 2008. You may be receiving this store location in the SDQ segment of the purchase order. Please add this store location to your EDI system. So you may see the orders generated for this store soon.

Grand Central Store #00683 Address
2500 Columbia House Blvd
Vancouver, WA 98661

You can find a complete Store listing on our website. Following is the link to the listing: http://edi.kroger.com/edi/loc_001.htm

Please prepare your EDI system to handle this new store ASAP.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this request."

Thursday, January 17, 2008

NRF Annual Convention 2008

Handouts - http://www.nrf.com/annual/Annual08/Handouts.asp

Online Session Search - http://events.nrf.com/annual08/public/Calendar.aspx

Meijer: Opening and Closing Stores

Meijer VendorNet
"Dear Meijer Valued Vendors:

Please pass this letter on to the appropriate people within your company.

Meijer is a growth company and consistent with our smart, steady growth plan, Meijer will be opening three new stores in Central Ohio:

 Meijer store #246 at 8300 Meijer Drive in Canal Wichester, OH
 Meijer store #234 at 2811 London-Groveport Road in Grove City, OH
 Meijer store #241 at 7150 Executive Blvd in Huber Heights, OH

Meijer will also be closing three stores in the same markets, dedicating resources instead to providing customers in the Dayton and Columbus markets with brand new shopping experiences. Meijer will close the following stores:

 Meijer store #59 at 5800 N Chantry Drive in Columbus, OH
 Meijer store #60 at 775 Georgesville Road in Columbus, OH
 Meijer store #101 at 2744 Harshman Road in Dayton, OH

All Meijer team members currently employed at these closing stores will be offered positions within a new or existing store within their market.

“Evaluating performance and improving our offerings to customers is something we work on every day“, said Mark Murray, President of Meijer. “New stores in Columbus and Dayton, two markets where we are firmly committed will enhance the Meijer customer experience in Central Ohio.”

For General Merchandise Vendors:
 All shipments to the closing stores, including ad product, have stopped effective Friday, January 11, including SBT and VMI vendors.
 SBT vendors – you will be contacted by your Meijer replenishment team regarding product or fixture removal dates for the 3 stores that are closing.

For all Foods, Drug Store (HBC and Prescription only), and Diapers:
 Product flow remains in effect at this time
 Any exceptions will be communicated directly to individual vendors
Changes in product flow for these areas at the 3 closing stores will be announced in the coming weeks.

Please make arrangements with your Meijer corporate contacts prior to removing product or fixtures from the closing stores.

New Store delivery schedules are available through your Meijer contacts now.

If you have any questions about how this affects you as a Meijer trading partner, please contact your Meijer Merchandise Analyst, Planner or Replenishment contact.

We appreciate your service and partnership.

Thank You.
Meijer"

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Heads up from Amazon.com: Duplicate AS2 messages (Ticket # 3851726)

"Greetings from Amazon.com Global EI Operations,

We are currently experiencing issues with our AS2 communications software. Partners who trade files with Amazon.com via AS2 may be receiving duplicate messages at this time. If you are receiving duplicate messages, please open a case in Drop Ship Central and provide several examples. Our engineers are researching this issue but there is currently no ETA. For your reference, our internal ticket number for this issue is 3851726.

We will continue to provide regular updates until the issue has been resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing and we appreciate your patience as we work toward resolution.

Best Regards.

Amazon.com Global EI Operations"

Monday, January 14, 2008

Amazon: Update 2008 Holiday Schedules

"Dear Amazon Drop Ship Vendor:

As we kick off a new year, we?d like you to review and update your 2008 holiday and closure schedules in Dropship Dashboard. This schedule needs to be updated to reflect any day you are not shipping, including holidays and other closures, such as for inventory.

Amazon makes promises to our customers based on your available shipping days and carrier pick-up times. Updating this information to the best of your knowledge helps automate the assignment of the correct shipping date. It is critical that all of your non-working days are logged in Dropship Central. If they are not, we will continue to send orders to you that need to be shipped on that day.

Please review the process steps to update your holidays in Dropship Central:
https://dropship.amazon.com/DropShipCentral/help/helpTopic.do?topicId=200158250
Thank you,
Amazon Drop Ship Team

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Update Amazon Drop Ship Holidays, Closures, and Carrier Pick-Up Times

1. Go to Drop Ship Central > Settings > Warehouse
2. Click on the Edit button next to your warehouse.
3. Navigate to the section at the bottom of the page, Holidays and Closures.
There you can review and add the date(s) you will be closed for shipping. Please only include days that you would normally be available to ship.
4. Once any updates are complete (including known inventory closures), select the continue button.
5. At the top of the next page, the section titled Carrier and Shipping Method Details contains all of the ship methods you support for Amazon. Review your carrier pick up days and times. Please edit any that are out of date.
6. Once this section is complete, scroll to the bottom of the page to submit these updates.

Please repeat this for each warehouse.

Thank you,
Amazon.com Dropship Team"

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Neiman Marcus Store Address Listing Change

"A change has been made to a NMGOPS.COM web site document: Neiman Marcus Store Address Listing that you requested a notification on.

To view the document: Neiman Marcus Store Address Listing, please click the following link http://www.nmgops.com/division/1/NMS_Store_Listing.pdf
Note that the changes have been highlighted in yellow.

We invite you to visit http://www.nmgops.com/to view all Recent Documents Updates.
From the home page, click on the specific group link to view a list of documents that have been updated recently.

Thank you,
Neiman Marcus Group"

Thursday, January 3, 2008

SPS Commerce Extended Maintenance Window Jan 12 - 13, 2008

"On Saturday January 12, 2008, from 12:00PM Central until 12:00PM Central on Sunday, January 13, 2008, SPS Commerce will be performing an upgrade to the network environment.
During this planned maintenance, all SPS' hosted transaction services will be unavailable. The SPS' hosted services include all communication services; AS2, FTP, and VAN, and the WebForms and Catalog Services.
Please plan accordingly.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact SPS Commerce Customer Support at 1-888-739-3232 or customersupport@spscommerce.com.
Sincerely,
SPS Commerce
Anne Knapp
VP of Technology "