The Home Depot Store Closing Announcement

"Dear Supplier:

As you may have heard, The Home Depot announced today that we will be closing 15 stores in the near future. Beginning Saturday, May 3, each of the impacted stores will begin their liquidation process of selling off all on hand merchandise, including racking and fixtures. We expect the liquidation phase to last approximately 6 weeks, closing our doors in these stores to the general public by the middle of June.
In order to prepare these stores for their closing, we're asking for your assistance in several areas:

• Any merchandise that is currently in transit, as of today, will be received at all impacted stores, per Home Depot's normal receiving procedures
• Continue to ship all Special Order merchandise throughout the next several weeks
• Any stock order either placed by the store or through our HOST systems, that is NOT in transit to the impacted stores as of today should NOT be shipped and should be immediately canceled
• Do not accept any new purchase orders for stock merchandise from these stores
• Due to the quick timing of this announcement, we ask that you please continue to provide assistance in handling RTV's at these impacted stores

Access the following link; Store Closing List to view the 15 stores that are scheduled to be liquidated.

Please contact your MVP with any questions.
Thank you,
Craig Menear, Executive Vice-President of Merchandising
The Home Depot"
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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."