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"To our valued Vendor Partners:
Hbc is implementing changes to our purchase order follow-up process intended to improve our mutual efficiency and effectiveness. These changes extend to launching a new vendor requested purchase order change process and minor modifications to our compliance program.
Order Follow-upHbc expects that orders generated through our Automatic Replenishment (A/R) system for mutually agreed upon programs will be delivered on time and complete. As such, as of May 12th, 2008, we will no longer perform follow-up calls on A/R orders.
As detailed in our Vendor Manual, all other orders are to have delivery appointments booked no later than five days prior to the start of the ship window. This timing helps us to balance our inbound flow and plan the allocation of logistics resources.
At the start of June, our appointment scheduling system will be updated to send out automatic alerts each day starting 5 days prior to the ship window, to notify you that an appointment has not yet been booked. In the interim, you will continue to receive alerts as you do today. Going forward, Hbc will only contact you if no appointment has been booked for an order which has entered into its shipping window.
Compliance ProgramTo support this change, Hbc is implementing a new compliance charge of $200 per purchase order where the Not Before Date has been reached and no appointment has been booked. This charge does not apply to orders generated by our A/R system. You will be sent an alert each time a charge has been applied.
This new compliance charge will take effect on June 2, 2008 and details of the charge will be available in the compliance section of our appointment scheduling system.
Simultaneously on June 2, 2008, Hbc is reducing the compliance charge on orders that arrive at our distribution centre in violation of our shipping guidelines. Currently, the charge is the lesser of $500 per hour or 10% of the cost of the purchase order. The new charge will be reduced to the lesser of $200 per hour or 10% of the cost of the purchase order.
Purchase Order Change RequestsBeginning May 12, 2008, Hbc is implementing a new process for vendor requested changes to purchases orders. This process will apply for domestic and U.S.A. based vendors and will not apply to orders generated by our A/R system as no changes are permitted on these orders.
To request a change to a purchase order, this new process requires that our vendors complete one of two possible request forms (see below) and email that form to the appropriate address at Hbc. The two forms will be available on the Hbc EDI website (
http://hbcediextranet.hbc.com/) on a new tab titled “Forms & Instructions” as of May 12, 2008. Compliance charges may be applied as appropriate.
Form #1 - Requests for changes to the following fields:
Not Before Date (Ship Date)
Not After Date (Cancel Date)
Quantity Change
Cost Change
Case Pack Change
Form #2 - Requests for changes to the following fields:
Inner Pack Change
DC Change
VPN
UPC
Item Description
Our Buying, Planning and Replenishment functions will be restructuring somewhat over the remainder of the year as we relocate and consolidate these functions into our Brampton office. Therefore, effective May 12, 2008, the person to which you are to email the form will vary as follows:
For Home Outfitters and all Bay/Zellers product areas other than Soft Home:
Forms 1 & 2 should be emailed to your current contact
For Bay/Zellers Soft Home (see below for a listing of product lines):
Form 1 is to be emailed to your buyer
Form 2 is to be email to the Soft Home Triage (email address will be on the form)
Bay/Zellers Soft Home Product Lines
Home Fashion & Decorative Accessories
Housewares
Outdoor Living & Seasonal
Toys & Sporting Goods
Hardware, Stationary & Storage
We will communicate changes to the mailing addresses for the other product areas as appropriate going forward.
If you have any questions about these changes, please contact
compliance.inquiries@hbc.com and we will respond via email or phone as appropriate.
We appreciate your continued support has we move forward.
Gary S. MacDonald
SVP, Supply Chain and Logistics"
