This Scorecard Is to Be Completed for Both Your Upstream and Downstream Trading Partners

Canadian Scorecard 2005

Monday, July 11, 2005

The Canadian e-Commerce Committee has assembled the following Scorecard to be completed by the Canadian Marketplace to obtain an understanding of where industry is at and what are the plans for the future. This information will be used to identify areas that will require additional assistance or attention that GS1 Canada in conjunction with the e-Commerce Committee, may provide for standards development, understanding and implementation through best practices. The companies that contributed to the development of this 2005 Canadian Scorecard are listing on page 2 of this document.

This scorecard is to be completed for both your upstream and downstream trading partners.

A glossary has been added to explain some of the acronyms that appear within this document for your convenience.

Please complete and return this Scorecard no later than July 31, 2005.

This particular Scorecard is to be completed by Canadian organizations. If any questions arise, they may be directed to GS1 Canada, Brian Chamberlain at [email protected].

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Apothecary Products, Inc. Maillot Baltex BookNet Canada McCormick Canada Bristol-Myers Squibb Metro Inc CHFA Nestle Canada CIBA Vision Canada Inc Parmalat Canada Danone Waters of Canada Inc. Peak Products Export Packers Co. Ltd. Petro-Canada Fishery Products International/Ocean Procter & Gamble Cuisine International purFruitti Desserts Incorporated General Mills Canada Corp. San Tropez Dance School Inc. H.J. Heinz of Canada Ltd. Schneider Foods JVC Canada Inc. Serena & Spenser Holding Ltd. Kraft Canada Inc. Sobeys Loblaw Companies Limited Thomas, Large & Singer inc Longo Brothers Fruit Market Inc Unilever Canada LP Canada Limited

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Please complete the following questions with respect to the Canadian Market only (full company upstream and downstream).

Company: Company Type: (i.e. Retailer, Manufacturer, Distributor, etc.) Industry Type: (Grocery, Rx, General Merchandise, etc.) Company GLN (Optional): (Global Location Number):

To complete this form:

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A. Company/Organization

A1 Company Size by Revenue $ per year: (M = Less than $1M $1-20 M $20-100 M $100-500 M $500 M - $1 Greater than million) Billion $1 Billion

A2 Is your company a multi-national organization? Yes No

A3 Is your company aware of or participating in the GSMP GCI Canadian e-Commerce Canadian EDI Other, following areas of e-commerce? Committee Workgroup specify:

A4 Is your company publicly traded? Yes No B. Master Data Alignment/Synchronization

B1 What stage of data synchronization is your Not planned Planned Testing Partially Implemented Completed company?

B2 How many of your trading partners are using None Few Most All data synchronization?

B3 Do you currently use ECCnet as your Data Pool? Yes No Not Applicable B3a If “Yes”, what phase?

Retail - % of items: NA 0% 25% 50% 65% 75% 80% 90% 100% Retail - % of customers using: NA 0% 25% 50% 65% 75% 80% 90% 100% Food Service - % of items: NA 0% 25% 50% 65% 75% 80% 90% 100% Food Service - % of customers using: NA 0% 25% 50% 65% 75% 80% 90% 100% B3b If “Yes”, how many customers are using price information?

B4 What other Data Pools do you currently use? Transora UCCnet WWRE Other, specify: None

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B5 What other Data Pools do you plan to use? Transora UCCnet WWRE Other None B6 What Data Pool(s) does your corporate headquarters ECCnet Transora UCCnet WWRE Other, specify: None use?

B7 What form of Collaborative Planning Forecasting and VMI RMI Other, None Replenishment (CPFR) do you use? Vendor Managed Inventory Retail Managed Inventory specify:

B8 Are you required to provide Nutritional Labeling Yes No Not Applicable B9 If “Yes” do you load this information to the data pool Yes No Plan to When requested B10 Do you load Tax Information to the data pool? Yes No B11 How would you rate the accuracy of the Data Pool Excellent Good Fair None Information Bar Codes

C1 Is your organization using Bar codes? Yes No C2 What percentage of your consumer level items 10% 25% 50% 65% 75% 80% 90% 100% have a bar code? 0%

C3 What percentage of your case level items have a 10% 25% 50% 65% 75% 80% 90% 100% bar code? 0%

C4 Do you use a SCC14 case code on your case level? Yes No C5 Do any of your cases have more than one bar code? Yes No C5a If “Yes”, which codes appear? UPC12 EAN13 SCC14 Other, specify:

C5b Where do they appear? (eg. UPC12 = Top SCC14 = Side) C5c Why do you apply more than one barcode?

C6 Do you currently scan bar codes? Yes No

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C7 At what point do you scan the bar code Shipping Receiving Point of sale Cross dock None (You may choose more than one)?

C8 Do you scan MH10 labels? Yes No Not Applicable C9 Is your organization aware of EPC (Electronic Yes No Product Code)?

C9a If “Yes”, what is your status? Currently in use Plans (6-12 months) Plans (12-18 months) None EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)

D1 Is your organization EDI (Electronic Data Yes No Interchange) capable? D2 How many trading partners do you currently have?

D3 What EDI Standard(s) does your company currently Canadian VICS UCS IC X12 Other, please specify: support? (you may choose more than one) VICS EDI

D4 What version of EDI Standards does your company 4010 4030 5010 Other, please specify: currently support (you may choose more than one)?

D5 Do you use XML (Extensible Markup Language)? Yes No D6 What percentages of your business transactions are completed via EDI, or done Manually or using XML? (Select the closed percentage) EDI: 0% 5% 10% 25% 50% 65% 75% 80% 90% 100% Manual: 0% 5% 10% 25% 50% 65% 75% 80% 90% 100% XML: 0% 5% 10% 25% 50% 65% 75% 80% 90% 100%

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D7 Please indicate what EDI transactions are currently supported in the chart below:

Current Status Transaction Direction

Currently in Implement Plan to Number of Integrated Inbound Outbound production in 2005 implement in trading (EDI is integrated with your next 2 years partners business applications)

204 – Carrier Load Tender

210 – Freight Details & Invoice

211 – Motor Carrier BOL

212 – Motor Carrier Delivery Trailer Manifest

213 – Motor Carrier Ship Status Inquiry

214 – Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message

810 – Invoice

812 – Credit/Debit Adjustment

816 – Organizational Relationship

820 – Payment Order/Remittance Advice

821 – Payment Remittance

824 – Application Advice Notice

830 – Planning Schedule

832 – Item Maintenance

850 – Purchase Order

852 – Product Activity

855 – PO Acknowledgement

856 – Advance Ship Notice

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Current Status Transaction Direction

Currently in Implement Plan to Number of Integrated Inbound Outbound production in 2005 implement in trading (EDI is integrated with your next 2 years partners business applications)

860 – PO Change

861 – Shipment Management

864 – Administrative Message

867 – Prod Transfer/Resale Rep.

870 – Order Status Report

882 – DSD Summary Information

889 – Promo Announcement

894 – Deliver/Return Base Rec

895 – Delivery/Return Ack/Adj

940 – Shipping Order

997 – Functional Acknowledgement

999 – Implementation Acknowledgement

Other (please specify below include UN/CEFACT, EDIFACT and EANCOM)

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D8 What percentage of purchase orders to your suppliers are % Gross Purchases: 0% % Transaction Volume: 0% processed through EDI? D9 What percentage of purchase orders from your customers % Gross Sales: 0% % Transaction Volume: 0% are processed through EDI? D10 What percentage of invoices from your suppliers are % Gross Purchases: 0% % Transaction Volume: 0% processed through EDI? D11 What percentage of invoices to your customers are % Gross Sales: 0% % Transaction Volume: 0% processed through EDI? D12 What percentage of DSD (Direct Store Delivery) processed % Gross Sales: 0% % Transaction Volume: 0% through EDI?

D13 From what document is payment made? Invoice Receipt Not applicable

D14 What communications methods do you use for EDI? Direct Connect VAN AS2 Other, please specify: Value Added Network

D15 Does your company reconcile your 997 Functional Yes No Acknowledgements?

D15a If “Yes”, when is it reconciled? Less than 6 hours 6-12 hours 12-24 hours 24-48 hours Other D16 Does your organization use the GLN (Global Location Yes No Number)? D16a If “No”, explain why not?

D17 Does your organization use the DUNS (Data Universal Yes No Number System)?

D18 Does your organization do any Scan-based Trading (SBT)? Yes No D18a If “No” is there a plan to in the future? Yes No D19 What is the percentage of 810 Invoices that pass successfully? (Based on data errors such as wrong UPC’s, 100% 90–100% 75-90% 50-75% 25-50% 5-25% Less than 5% Unit of Measure, Pricing etc)

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D20 Based on the data errors that you received for 810’s, GTIN Unit of Pricing Quantity Tax Other, could you rank and provide the percentage of these Measure specify None st Rank Rank Rank Rank errors? (eg Example – GTIN – 1 20% type: % Rank % % % % Rank % D21 What is the percentage of 850 Purchase Orders that pass successfully? (Based on data errors such as wrong 100% 90–100% 75-90% 50-75% 25-50% 5-25% Less than 5% UPC’s, Unit of Measure, Pricing etc) Final Questions

E1 Are there any suggestions for improvement Easy to complete Difficult to complete No issues E2 Please list any suggestions for improvement:

E3 Were there any topics or questions that you would like to Yes No see included in the next version of the Scorecard? E4 If “Yes”, please list them and provide possible answers:

Thank you for your time and information!

Please save your completed Canadian Scorecard to a known location on your computer and email to [email protected].

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GLOSSARY OF TERMS

CPFR – Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment DSD – Direct Store Delivery DUNS - Data Universal Number System EDI – Electronic Data Interchange EPC – Electronic Product Code GCI – Global Commerce Initiative GLN – Global Location Number GSMP – Global Standards Management Process GTIN – Global Trade Item Number I/C – Industrial/Commercial MH10 – ANSI standard materials handling – unit load and transport packages – bar code label RMI – Retail Managed Inventory SBT – Scan-based Technology UCS – Uniform Communication Standard UPC – Universal Product Code VAN – Value Added Network VICS – Voluntary Inter-Industry Commerce Standard VMI – Vendor Managed Inventory WWRE – World Wide Retail Exchange XML – Extensible Markup Language

For additional glossary of terms, please see the ECCC GS1 Canada website at www.gs1ca.org.

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