It is only a few days away from the biggest FMCG event – the ECR Europe Forum and Marketplace on 9^th – 10^th of May in Brussels and ECR Baltic is giving away 1 free pass at EUR 950.00 value to the NEW ECR Baltic member who will register the first from 3^rd to 5^th of May.

To participate in the draw you just have to become a member of ECR Baltic, here: http://www.ecr-baltic.org/en/members/become-a-member/

or by sending signed ECR Baltic members application form attached (note: ECR Baltic membership is subject to annual membership fee).

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ECR Baltic is calling important C-level meeting and seminar for GDS (Global Data Synchronization) data pool introduction in the Baltic States.

During the meeting we will prove the concept and need for quality master data management and synchronization, presenting business cases from Poland, Sweden and Russia. Hear and discuss retailers and manufacturers point of view, benefits and concerns (organizational and technical changes needed).

Learn cross functional GDS application for buyers and assortment planning (category management), logistics and supply chain (warehouse and transport management), orders management, efficient replenishment and business process automation and integration via EDI (Electronic Data Interchange).

The second half of the day will be dedicated to retailers and manufacturers interview of the data pool solution providers: SA2|Worldsync ; EDISOFT; Saphety

Confirmed speakers from RIMI Baltic, Prisma, Unilever, Kraft Foods, GS1 Sweden, ECR Russia.

AGENDA (Radisson Blu Latvija, Elizabetes 55):

9:30 Registration and welcome coffee
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10:00 Introduction (Quality master data management issues) Edgars Pentjušs
10:20 Retailers and manufacturers benefits and expectations for using data pool (data synchronization). PRISMA / RIMI / Kraft, free-form discussion
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11:30 Coffee break
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11:50 Implementation of data pool (case examples from other Countries): Poland (Unilever PL), Sweden (GS1 Sweden), Russia (ECR Russia)
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12:40 Lunch (50 min)
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13:30 Meeting (interview 1h) of the provider # 1   SA2 |Worldsync
14:30 Technical/Coffee break (10 mins)
14:40 Meeting (interview 1h) of the provider # 2   Edisoft
15:40 Technical/Coffee break (20 mins)
16:00 Meeting (interview 1h) of the provider # 3    Saphety
17:00 Technical/Coffee break (10 mins)   
17:10 Summary of the Day and decision about next steps  (Calling data synchronization working group, pilot projects, defining necessary functions and service levels of data pool, evaluation of existing solutions, alignment of attributes, choosing data pool and business model).
17:30 Closure

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For more information, please contact
Edgars Pentjuss, ECR Baltic
M  +37126546645      
E edgars@ecr-baltic.org

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Everyone’s talking about it. Everyone, it seems, is doing it.

We’re talking digital here: communicating online with each other, swapping data electronically with our suppliers and customers, and interacting via iPads, smartphones and goodness knows what else with our shoppers.

All sorted. Or is it?

Peter Hinssen, one of our expert speakers at the ECR Europe conference in Brussels next month, refers to it as the “new normal”. Yet the fast-moving world of online retailing still sometimes seems anything but normal.

And turning digital talk into profits is not always straightforward either. Sébastien Badault, MD for Strategic Accounts SEEMEA at Google, one of the biggest online names of all, will have a view on that.

Alongside them will be four more digital experts - Barney Burgess (COO Grocery Home Shopping, Tesco), Olivier Marcheteau (President Cdiscount.com, Groupe Casino), Georges-Edouard Dias (SVP Digital Business, L’Oréal) and Swinda Hagedoorn (Director, Global Industry Solutions, TNT Express).

If you would like to know what’s normal - and what’s about to become normal - in the digital world, reserve your place now (digitally of course) on http://conference.ecrnet.org/ and take your seat with us on 9-10 May.

ECR Baltic Pallets and RTI (Returnable Transport Items) unification and pooling initiative seminar and working group meeting on 11th of April in Radisson Blu Hotel Latvia, Elizabetes Street 55, Riga.

9:30 Registration
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10:00 Introduction
10:15 Presentation of Baltic EUR Pallet Assessment Cards (EPAL, ECR Baltic)
10:45 Terms of use and application (EPAL, ECR Baltic)
11:00 Summary of manufacturers feedbacks about pallets issues by Ligita Turnere, Latvian Food Manufacturer Association
11:15 Discussion by All
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11:30 Coffee break
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11:50 How to prolong pallets life (EPAL, ECR Baltic, Chep)
12:10 Pallets pooling by Chep
12:40 Pallets issues discussion by All
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13:10 Lunch break thanks to CHEP
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14:00 Optimizing Efficiency of the Whole FMCG Supply Chain with RTI Solution – Case Examples by Tuomas Sointu, Head of Retail Solutions, K. Hartwall
14:20 Supply chain logistics, packaging costs (ROI) and traceablilty (incl. RFID) by Margus Arm, Bepco
14:40 RTI unification Baltic standard proposal and feedbacks from retailers and manufacturers by Edgars Pentjuss, ECR Baltic.
15:00 RTIs for Dairy Industry in Latvia by Jānis Šolks, Latvian Central Dairy Producers Society
15:10 Discussion by All
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15:30 Coffee break
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16:00 RTI unification in Baltics discussion continued... (approval of RTI Baltic recommendations and standard)
16:45 Pallets issues: use of color criteria on pallets assessment cards and best practice for disqualified EUR pallets management.
17:30 Closure

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After Easter Holidays must to see for FMCG decision makers in Baltics:

11.04.2012 Pallets and Returnable/Reusable Transport Items seminar and working group meeting

26.04.2012 Master Data Management (Data Pool) Seminar and working group meeting