David
> Does anybody have an 832
price catalog implementation guide for Lowe's,
> Ace Hardware or Home Depot they can share with me? Thanks.
This is an email one of our clients received in 2003:
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IMPORTANT REMINDER
The Home Depot moves toward Data Synchronization
October 8, 2003 - On September 27, 2003, your customer, The Home Depot,
requested that you load your product data into ECCnet Canada's National Product
Registry to ensure industry
standard compliance, product data integrity and
product data synchronization. Product listing through the ECCnet registry will
become part of The Home Depot's standard terms & conditions of trade effective
December 31, 2003.
Your first step towards data synchronization is to register your Company Prefix
with the ECCnet Company Prefix Licencing service. The Home Depot has requested
that you complete this step by October 15, 2003. If your Company Prefix Licence
is already registered, we thank you.
To help you complete your second step towards data synchronization, The Home
Depot is sponsoring a FREE ECCnet Vendor Education Session on October 28, 2003
at the Toronto Congress Centre. Register online today at www.eccc.org/events.
The Home Depot wants you there!
To further support vendor participation in improving the efficiency of the
supply chain, The Home Depot will soon announce another FREE ECCnet Vendor
Education Session in Montreal.
Data synchronization through the ECCnet registry will enhance the efficiency of
the Hardlines supply chain. As a supplier, you will realize many benefits,
including:
Reductions in invoice discrepancies
Improved
purchase order quality
Improved speed-to-market
Expedited changes to existing item information.
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At considerable time & expense, our client joined ECCC and registered their
various UPC prefixes. ECCC requested legal proof that our client 'owned' the
various divisions that used prefixes in the US, and had permission to use
others that they were distributing...
Then they waited 2 years until:
> From: CHHMA Events [mailto:
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:51 PM
> Subject: From the CHHMA:
Newsletter September 21..
>
> <http://www.chhma.ca/images/header660.gif>
>
> Data Synchronization Stalls
>
> In spite of all the talk and the efforts of worldwide bodies
> such as GS1 (formerly ECCC in Canada ) the launch of a global
> data synchronization program for our industry is not imminent.
>
> You may remember on Oct 25th last year attending a meeting
> with ECCC and Home Depot and being told, in no uncertain
> terms, to be ready for program start in 2005 ?
>
> "Didn't happen, ain't gonna happen, cancel the t-shirt."
>
> Last Friday, Home Depot and Rona stated that, while they see
> merit in the program, it is not a priority for them at this
> time. In fact, neither could offer a timetable for initiation
> in any form.
>
> Although this is very welcome
news for vendors, it still
> comes with an unsettling degree of uncertainty. After all,
> how do you plan for an unplanned, but expensive, event.? We
> don't know the answer to that either. We will though, as
> always, keep you up to date on developments. Stay tuned!
I would expect that any 832 specs would be available at GS1. You need a
membership to view the specs ;-(
Earl Wertheimer
http://www.spe-
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