Neiman Marcus Group Change in EDI 852 and Partnership with Edifice Information Management

To keep in line with Neiman Marcus Corporate Reporting Policies and to ensure that the sales data that we communicate to our vendors is consistent, single source and approved, Neiman Marcus has re-aligned our EDI Sales and On-Hand communication to our vendors. With this re-alignment, we will be eliminating the current EDI 852 Sales and On-Hand reporting that is sent electronically to our vendors. As of August 2, 2009 sales data to the vendors will be provided in one of the following methods:

• Weekly Sales report sent from Product Reporting  - Excel Format (no fee)

• Edifice produced EDI 852 (fee based service)

• Edifice produced point-of-sale (POS) reports  (fee based service)

We are pleased to announce our partnership with EDIFICE to provide fee based services including point-of-sale reporting and to be the distributor of our EDI 852.   

As of August 2, 2009 Neiman Marcus will discontinue the direct distribution of the EDI 852.  With the partnership between Neiman Marcus and EDIFICE brings the availability of two different fee based options, if your company chooses not to receive the excel formatted weekly sales report from Product Reporting (Internal reporting tool). The two fee based options from EDIFICE will be either receiving the EDI 852 as you do today or a more customized and robust web-accessed metric tool that allows you to filter, sort, drill down and create reports to the SKU/Store level.

If you elect to continue receiving the EDI 852 you must have a contract in place with Edifice by July 10, 2009 to ensure no disruption in the delivery of the EDI 852.

Edifice will be ready to set vendors up on the Edifice Reports or Edifice 852 as of May 26, 2009.  If you are already an Edifice customer, please contact your Edifice account manager to contract for Neiman Marcus data. If you are new to Edifice, please contact Georgeann Bodnar at 210-494-5008 or gbodnar@edificeinfo.com .  Learn more about the Neiman Marcus program and/or register for an Edifice representative to contact you at:  www.edificeinfo.com/neimanmarcus.html

A member of our Neiman Marcus EDI team will be contacting you in the upcoming weeks to determine what path your company will be taking in regards to receiving SKU/Store Sales and On-Hand data from Neiman Marcus.

We appreciate your partnership and highly recommend the Edifice Reports as they contain information about our business not found in any report that’s available to our vendors today. By having you assist us in managing the business at the lowest level, both of our companies will be more successful.

Sincerely,

Jill Barron

Director, Supply Chain and Vendor Management