Commitment to GS1net

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Commitment to GS1net Justin Hansen
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OfficeMax Overview
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The Numbers that Count

• Over 40 years operating in Australia.
• Over 50 of annual sales are transacted online.
• Over 23,000 cartons delivered daily.
• Over 2,200 calls taken per day by our National
  Contact Centre.
• Over 500,000 school students supplied each
  Back-to-School season.
• Over 35,000 customers trading electronically with
  OfficeMax.
• Over 55,000 product lines in our Stock Master
  file.

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Participation in OSGaG

• OfficeMax was a foundation member of the OSGaG
  group.
• OfficeMax sat on the OSGaG Steering Committee
  that provided the governance and direction for
  this industry initiative.
• OfficeMax participated in the working parties
  that help get this project to the pilot phase.
• OfficeMax struggled with its Operational
  deliverables versus Strategic deliverables during
  the later stages Pilot phase but was adamant that
  we continue being included in this project.

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Why?

• Common and Consistent approach to data
  synchronization
• Being part of an industry group focused on
  stream-lining our supply chain process, gave us
  the ability to have our contributions known.
• The experience, expertise and tools available
  through GS1 will allow OfficeMax to expedite our
  on-boarding of suppliers which give us the
  ability to meet the needs of our customers.
• OfficeMax knows as both a supplier and a retailer
  of Office Supplies, that this is an imperative to
  deliver the efficiencies we need to remain
  competitive within our industry.

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Suppliers OfficeMax engage with electronically

• 3M (PO) Chair Solutions (PO/POA)    
• Acco (PO)   DDK (PO/POA)
• Alliance Dist (PO)    Faber Castell (PO/POA)
• Aussemble (PO)    Synnex (PO/POA)
• Bizwear (PO)   Profile (PO/POA)
• Bostik (PO)   Ingram (PO/POA)
• Crayola (PO)   Edgar Edmonson (PO/POA)
• Dalton (PO)   Kimberly Clark (PO)
• Energizer (PO)   UHU (PO)
• Fellowes (PO)   Lexmark (PO)
• Henkel (PO)   Staedler (PO)
• HP  (PO)   Starmaid (PO)
• Imation (PO) Newell Rubbermaid (PO)
• Verbatim (PO)   SCA Hygiene (PO)

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Challenges

• External
• Every OfficeMax / Supplier integration has
  required a separate master file synchronization
  exercise.
• Validating inventory master data is time
  consuming and costly when there is a better
  method available for managing this process.
• Incomplete data leads to down stream issues
  delivering product data to our integrated
  customers.
• Extensive resources deployed within our
  Merchandizing groups to collect and collate
  inventory master data.
• Internal
• Gaining and coordinating initial Internal
  Stakeholder commitment.
• Working on a strategic project which will lead to
  operational efficiencies, is difficult when faced
  with day to day operational deliverables.

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Partnering with OfficeMax

• You are our Strategic Partners.
• We will align ourselves with our partners who
  share our vision, our values and our commitment
  to succeed.
• We will continue to support your businesses.
• We look forward to your support in helping us
  take OfficeMax to the next level.

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OfficeMax aligning with Tier 1 2 Brands
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The Way Forward

• OfficeMax has built a dedicated Australian / New
  Zealand eBusiness Group to work with both
  Customers and Suppliers in streamlining our total
  end-to-end supply chain.
• OfficeMax has made supplier side electronic
  integrations a priority over the last year in
  order to increase the efficiency of trading with
  our suppliers.
• OfficeMax has added into our strategic plan, a 2
  million commitment in on-boarding our Supplier
  network.
• OfficeMax has planned to have 80 of its supply
  network fully integrated by 2013
• OfficeMax currently send purchase orders
  documents with our EDI suppliers and will be
  expanding this to include implementing Advanced
  Shipping Notices and Invoicing in 2011.
• OfficeMax will be using GS1net as our primary
  master data set which will be pivotal to
  realizing these objectives.

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