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Invitation to ECR Baltic seminar on returnable transport items (RTI) standardization and pooling for dairy and meat categories in the Baltic States.
This is our second try to get dairy producers and manufacturers around the table to discuss RTI unification in the Baltic States. The challenge is clear: unification and pooling as an option for RTI (in this case meat and dairy produce crates) shall lead to
- Efficient supply chain (reduced transporting, warehousing, sorting and handling costs)
- Market competitiveness
- Improved impact on environment
We know that transport, storage, handling and packaging all together already represent 12-15% of product retail sales price!
So why we add on top of it each individual crate system which is hardly recognized by final consumers and ads only extra cost to final product and frustration in retail supply chains?
If you have the same question in your supply chain, please be kindly invited to ECR Baltic seminar on returnable transport items (RTI) standardization and pooling options for dairy and meat categories in the Baltic States on 7th September, 2011 at 15:00
Place: Riga Food 2011 Fair www.rigafood.lv , Ķīpsalas iela 8, Rīga, LV-1048, Latvija.
Working language: bilingual English / Russian
* Participation with invitations (when register, please enter discount code from invitation). If you are dairy, meat producer or grocery retailer, please claim your free pass (discount code) by email to info@ecr-baltic.org or Call/SMS +37126546645
* ECR Baltic members Free of Charge (limited to 2 free passes to one company)
* Others Euro 80.00 + 22% VAT
about | prices, terms and conditions | register here! or email info@ecr-baltic.org
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AGENDA:
14:45 – 15:15 Registration
15:15 – 15:25 Introduction: Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) collaboration platform
15:25 – 16:30 Returnable Transport Items (RTI) standardization and pooling initiatives
- Retail expectations expressed by Rimi Baltic, Maxima Grupe, Prisma Peremarket, Palink and others
- Manufacturers point of view (Dairy and Meat producers)
16:30 – 16:45 Summaries
16:45 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 17:45 Solution providers presentations (Schoeller Arca Systems, Bepco, Mega Pool Systems, Container Centralen – to be confirmed!)
17:45 – 18:15 Wrap up and summaries
Agenda is subject to changes!
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Your action needed!
If you are dairy (milk) producer, we would like to ask you to fill in the dairy crates survey, here:
Only aggregated data of this survey will be available to the public and/or presented during the meeting.
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What was told by our memebrs?
We at RIMI Baltic Group strongly believe in standartisation of any solution (in this case secondary returnable packaging) as a key driver for cost decrease in the whole Supply Chain. Currently with the complicated and diverse crate and pallet situation, we are faced with several main issues:
1. Shrink increase in the supply chain due to the fact of poor stackability
2. Transport utilisation decrease due to the fact that current crates are not always utilised with full loads.
3. Poor quality of pallets contributes to high pallet abbrasion therefore tensing the relationship with suppliers and increasing admistration and handling costs
Therefore we are unable to fulfil the shopper needs to the full extent and capabilities
We support every collaborative action that can contribute to our shopper satisfaction and drives the market forward. We are ready and willing to dedicate our resources to pursue dairy crate standardisation and assess the possibility to have a pallet pool in the Baltics. We are happy to share that previous attempts of standard crates for one type of products proved beneficial to the whole supply chain from supplier to our shelf, and received a lot of positive feedback from our trading partners
Why standartisation and optimisation at manufacturing side by Valio Baltics:
• Cost effectiveness for manufacturers due production processes automatization
• Savings from labour force cost
• Savings from packaging material /carton
• Lower prices for crates – bigger orders from producers / all Baltic manufacturesrs and due that crate manufacturers can offer lower prices
• Common solution for all retailers – there will be no risks, that different retailers want to have their own secondary packaging solutions
• Standardization process should be start from high volume products
For logistics:
• Logistic costs savings due suitable and stackable packaging solutions
• Possibilities to have shorte controlling time in sales process due coding of crates – scanner solutions. And also this process will be more
effective
• Effective and accectable sales units – higher efficiency in terminal picking processes
For Consumer & Retail
• More attractive and clear shelves layouts in stores will bring possible sales increase
• Shelf ready packaging – efficiency and cost savings for retailers. Easier on more effective in store logistics
• Consumer & shopper satisfaction increase
• Efficiency increse for chains, who are running their own logistic systems
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FYI: Please check the presentations regarding pallets and RTI unification intitatives in Baltics, here!
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