ECR Baltic Community Newsletter #2-2011
If you are a pro or just started your career in Consumer Products and Retail related industries this newsletter should be for you!
The ECR Baltic newsletter gives frequent updates on Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) activities and developments in Baltics. The newsletter aim to show collaboration best practices and win win cases for managing efficient supply and demand chains for the benefit to Consumers, Consumer Products and Retail sectors.
ECR in Europe has quite a long track record from1994, however ECR Baltic initiative was the first called in 2006 by two major retail chains and its suppliers at that time facilitated by ECR Poland. Shortly after GS1 Latvia has been chosen to run ECR Baltic secretariat until 2009 when ECR Baltic changed its legal structure with only to ECR Baltic dedicated management team.
ECR Baltic, the first meetings in 2006
After continuous market growth for almost 10 years in a row it was recognized that it wont last for long and the time to bring efficiencies throughout the whole supply chain has come. Followed by deep recession in 2008 Efficient Consumer Response became pretty much for Efficient Crisis Response strategy for many retailers and manufacturers.
If you have considered to join ECR Baltic, please check our membership terms and conditions, here! To learn how you can benefit from ECR, please do not hesitate to contact us!
To subscribe to ECR Baltic newsletter and view previous issue of ECR Baltic Newsletter #1-2011
ECR Baltic working group activities:
Hot! EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Working Group meeting.
Monday 14.03.2011 at 15:00 in ECR Baltic, c/o GS1 Latvia office,
Brivibas Street 149, 8th floor, Riga, Latvia, LV-1012
Agenda topics:
- Unified retail einvoice in Baltics
- GDSN Data Pool solution presentation by Edisoft
- EDI promotion activities and best practices
Confirmed participants from Rimi Baltic, Prisma, L'Oreal, Unilever, Royal Unibrew, Telema, Edisoft, GS1 Latvia and more.
If you think you should be there and join this meeting, please contact us and subscribe to EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) working group.
 ECR Baltic Education and Training Committee has launched ECR Baltic Student Award, learn more!
ECR Baltic Student award was led by ECR Baltic Education and Training Committee to encourage students and academics for choosing FMCG and Retail industry as a working area, the award paper can serve as a launch pad for further development in final paper or thesis.
To participate in the competition, individually or in pairs of two students must write a project work (max 12 pages) on one of the following topics:
1. Consumer Research
2. Logistics & Supply Chain
3. Information Technologies
Deadline: April 15th, 2011
Why participate in ECR Baltic Student Award as a student?
- Link your student/academic work with business
- Concentrate on hot topics and issues
- Recognition by industry professionals
ECR Baltic Student Award for Companies?
- If you would like to contribute by joining our evaluation team and/or sponsoring, please do not hesitate to contact ECR Baltic;
- Get fresh ideas and inspiration
- "Out of box" recruiting possibilities (meet future industry professionals and employees)
ECR Europe Community updates:
 If 200 industry executives agreed on the trends they are most concerned about, and the strategic objectives they would jointly focus on, what would they be?
The 2020 Future Value Chain Report (download) provides the answers to this question. It truly is a report "for the industry and by the industry”, and we are very pleased to share it with you today.
The “Building Strategies for the New Decade” report summarizes a dozen trends that will impact on our industry over the next ten years. It identifies how, by working together, our industry can position itself to respond to these trends, allowing our businesses to continue to meet the needs of our ever-changing consumers and shoppers.
News from members and partner organizations:
24.03.2011 Career Opportunity Day at Latvian University. Riga, Raina Blvd. 19.
Education and Trainings
Did you know that the world’s leading experts in Category Management have been working on a new framework designed to take retailer/manufacturer collaboration and innovation to the next level?
And did you know that this will be launched at the ECR Europe Conference in April?
The “Consumer and Shopper Journey” framework tracks each stage of the consumer decision process, from planning a shopping trip to using products at home. It helps trading partners to identify new shared opportunities and to combine their expertise to create value. To learn more...
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