Burlington Coat Factory WMS Rollout

"Dear Trading Partner:

On April 6th, 2009 Burlington Coat Factory will be rolling out our new WMS system for the Edgewater Park, NJ facility. This overhaul of our supply chain software will result in higher levels of accuracy and substantially improved flow of your goods to our sales floor. Please support us as we effectuate this important Burlington Coat Factory transition. During this rollout, we may experience the need to suspend EDI transactions for a short period in order to fulfill the demands of our new WMS and our new EDI translator. As our partner, we expect and depend on your full collaboration to fulfill our aggressive, multi-store growth strategy over the next few years. Contact us (vendor.relations@coat.com) in the event that you require assistance or clarification on any vendor matter.

Sincerely,
Michael Abruzzi Curtis W. LeRoy
Manager of Vendor Relations Director of Supply Chain Administration"

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Burlington Coat Factory: ASN Compliance & Validation

"To: All Traditional EDI Vendors
From: EDI Operations & BCF Vendor Relations
Date: 12/23/2008
Re: ASN Compliance & Validation

Dear Valued Trading Partner,
As part of Burlington Coat Factory’s technology and systems upgrades for 2009, we will be utilizing an enhanced ASN validation rules process. This process will validate your incoming ASN for accuracy and adherence to BCF’s established ASN and shipping specifications. Through the receipt of a complete and accurate ASN, BCF will increase its overall inbound efficiency and our ability to get your goods to our store floor. We anticipate the go live for these enhanced ASN validations to begin on or about January 19th 2009. Going forward our Vendor Relations, ASN Production or EDI Support teams will be contacting you in the event of any compliance, production or technical issues with your ASN requirements. The increased accuracy of the EDI ASN is a key first step in a series of collaborations between BCF and our Vendors. We look forward to working with you as partners along the supply chain to drive costs down and increase the timeliness of our DC thru-put.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Please send any question you may have to edi.questions@coat.com or vendor.relations@coat.com.

Sincerely,
Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation
EDI Department Edi.questions@coat.com 609-387-7800 x-3340
Vendor Relations Vendor.Relations@coat.com 609-387-7800 x-3118"

Burlington Coat Factory Vendor Webpage

"Good morning.

Please take a moment to view our updated vendor website. It has been updated to include more contact information, critical updates, as well as our updated vendor manual. You can find these by going to: http://corporate.burlingtoncoatfactory.com/vendor/index.shtml The new vendor web pages have a new design and are more readily navigated. Be sure to check the website for continuous updates.

Michael Abruzzi
Manager of Vendor Compliance
Burlington Coat Factory
609.387.7800 x2611"

Burlington Coat Factory's Vendor Compliance Department

"Dear Trading Partner:

Burlington Coat Factory continues to make significant changes to our supply chain. As you may have heard, we are implementing a new warehouse management system (WMS). This overhaul of our supply chain software will result in higher levels of accuracy and substantially improved flow of your goods to our store floor. As you have experienced with most of your other trading partners, this new system relies on accurate ASN’s and UCC128 labels from you in order to achieve this enhanced efficiency.

Consequently, we will require ALL vendors to provide compliant EDI transactions and labels in the course of conducting business with Burlington Coat Factory. For a majority of our vendor partners, we do not anticipate any significant issues for you since this level of service is the norm for most of the retail world.

For those of you who are not EDI compliant, there are two options:
1) Test with BCF to become EDI certified utilizing your own system (preferred).
2) Enroll on the BCF Gateway for a free solution on our system.

With these two options at hand, fulfilling BCF requirements should be only a modest change in procedure and effort. For the 1000+ vendors who already fulfill orders to BCF with either traditional EDI or the BCF Gateway, no change in process will be required.

We only ask that you continue your efforts to maximize ASN accuracy and correct UCC128 placement. We expect 100% compliance from our vendors. With that said, I am writing you today on behalf of Burlington Coat Factory’s Vendor Compliance Department in regards to our ‘No ASN at time of receipt’ compliance charge. Your company has had 3 [or more] charges in the last 3 months. We have changed our charging structure from 5% of the cost of the purchase order [per occurrence]; to now escalate an additional 2.5% [7.5% of the cost of the purchase order] after your third charge and another 2.5% [10% of the cost of the purchase order] after your 4th charge.

I cannot express the importance of being [or becoming] compliant to this rule as soon as possible. We have been requesting our vendor’s compliance on this subject since September 2007. I have increased the charge amounts in effort to make you aware of our need for ASN’s before your merchandise arrives. If you would like to discuss this matter further please arrange a conference call or an onsite meeting by emailing Vendor.Meeting.Requests@coat.com. If you have any general questions please contact vendor.relations@coat.com. Traditional EDI testing can be initiated at edi.questions@coat.com. Inquiries for fulfilling EDI requirements through the BCF Gateway system can be directed to edi.gateway@coat.com.

Thank you for your strategic partnership and your ongoing support of BCF initiatives.

Michael Abruzzi
Manager of Vendor Compliance
Burlington Coat Factory
609.387.7800 x2611"

BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY IMPORT VENDORS - Shanghai Meetings 3/4 & 3/5 2008

"Dear Import Trading Partners:

(Please forward this email accordingly. Thank you.)

As you may be aware with the release of our Import Manual several days ago, all Import Vendors must contact MOL for ALL bookings as of 3/3/2008. This would include CY loads. We are also opening up five (5) CFS operations with MOL over the next few months, the first of which is Shanghai for 3/3/2008 bookings (4/1/2008 sail dates). Details on this development can be acquired at http://corporate.burlingtoncoatfactory.com/vendor/manual/Chapter10_Additional_Import_Standards.pdf.

Attached, please find an introductory letter from MOL explaining the location and times for our Shanghai Meetings. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact: bcfvendorcomm@molocb.com.

Thank you for cooperation.
C. Le Roy Director of Vendor/Buyer Relations Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation 609-387-7800 x-3118"

Burlington Coat Factory: Brand New Vendor Manual

"To Our Trading Partners:

We are pleased to publish our brand new BCF Vendor Manual in a new format that will prove to be easier to read and understand. There are some changes (such as our new Social Compliance Policy and Vendor Import Standards) which will require your complete review which we strongly recommend. Go to the Vendor Pages on coat.com and follow the appropriate links. If you have any questions, please email vendor.relations@coat.com.

Sincerely,
C.W. LeRoy Director of Vendor/Buyer Relations"

Burlington Coat Factory: INCREASED NEED FOR ASN's and UCC128 LABELS

"October 1, 2007

Dear Trading Partner:

Burlington Coat Factory continues to make significant changes to our supply chain. Beginning, February 2008, we are implementing a new warehouse management system (WMS). This overhaul of our supply chain software will result in higher levels of accuracy and substantially improved flow of your goods to our store floor. As you have experienced with most of your other trading partners, this new system relies on accurate ASN s and UCC128 labels from you in order to achieve this enhanced efficiency. Consequently, we will require ALL vendors to provide compliant EDI transactions and labels in the course of conducting business with Burlington Coat Factory. For a majority of our vendor partners, we do not anticipate any significant issues for you since this level of service is the norm for most of the retail world. For those of you who are not EDI compliant, there are two options: 1) Test with BCF to become EDI certified utilizing your own system (preferred). 2) Enroll on the BCF Gateway for a free solution on our system. With these two options at hand, fulfilling BCF requirements should be only a modest change in procedure and effort. For the 1000+ vendors who already fulfill orders to BCF with either traditional EDI or the BCF Gateway, no change in process will be required. We only ask that you continue your efforts to maximize ASN accuracy and correct UCC128 placement. We will expect 100% compliance from our vendors on or before January 1, 2008. If you have any general questions please contact vendor.relations@coat.com. Traditional EDI testing or BCF Gateway system setups can be initiated by sending an email to edi.support@coat.com.

Thank you for your strategic partnership and your ongoing support of BCF initiatives.
Jack Moore President of Merchandising, Marketing, Planning/Allocation Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation."

To Burlington Coat Factory Vendors (April 13, 2007)

"To our Valued Vendors,

Recently we experienced some technical difficulties that caused our system to allow spam to be sent to our vendor alias file. Once we detected the problem we quickly addressed the issue. It has been corrected and at this time and we are looking into ways to insure that this does not happen again. We want to send our most sincere apologize to all of you that were affected by this issue. Each one of you is a valuable part of our operation. Again, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused your business. If you have any further concerns please contact me at the below information. It will be my pleasure to answer any questions that you have on this matter.

Sincerely,
Ray Johnston Raymond J Johnston Jr.
Director of Corporate Services
Burlington Coat Factory
1830 Route 130
North Burlington, NJ 08016
Phone:(609)387-7800 Ext.1121
Fax:(609)589-2977
Email: ray.johnston@coat.com
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