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Participants
Present Name Company Brent Kemp AgGateway Greg Fish GROWMARK Rob Bullock SSI Natasha Lily The Equity Eric Hoefing Key Cooperative Ann Vande Lune Key Cooperative Randy Fry Ceres Solutions Jeff Griffeth Co-Alliance Charlie Will Southern States
Terms:
MSA = Moved, Seconded & Approved
Purpose of meeting: The Ag Retail Meet Up will inform members on the state of current work; identify industry pinch points that can benefit from process improvement, standards implementation, or both; and offer an opportunity for idea generation and collaboration.
Participants will benefit through increased understanding of industry capability and readiness to act; opportunity to offer input and provide direction on active and anticipated collaborative efforts.
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Agenda/Minute
Topic (Leader)
Desired Outcome Sub-topics, supporting documentation, additional resources Meeting Minutes
1 Welcome, Antitrust and Introduction () 5 min.
Welcome the group - All were welcomed. Antitrust guidelines adherence confirmed. 2 Minutes Taker () 1 min. A meeting taker has been selected. Brent Kemp will capture notes3 Ag Retail Energy - ~50 minutes Group will finalize agenda for 21 Jan meet up, assign presenters, and plan for anticipated next stepsEnergy Agenda (from December 2020)
Kickoff - 5 minutes Jeff & Randy Introductions around the table? Intro to Ag Gateway – 5 minutes - XXX Pain Point discussion – lead by our group ~60 minutesStart with identified list: logistics, meter reading and tank tracing, integration with existing supply chain data, invoicing (multi-levels) Open to the group for more discussion Assign Priorities – Jeff & Randy 15 minutes Next steps – (Discussion of next call agenda, further brainstorming and introduction of tech solutions, etc. ) Brent Kemp - 15 minutes Review of discussion from prior calls:
Need and Scope:
Observation is that systems and processes for this line of business are antiquated Some base standards of identification and message exchange do existNACS - National Association of Convenience Stores - product codes X12 EDI 200-series messages for data exchange in distribution Likely other codes and messages in use for regulatory touch points Products:Refined fuels - many different vendors but "commodity" level product set Oil & Lube - seed-scale SKU set Identification at the packaged product level only with lots of proprietary codes embedded in current barcoding Randy advertised for the Crop Protection Identification session on Wednesday morning. Messages:Invoicing meter readings and tank locations loads and receiving tank maintenance Quantity of transactions - more than seed, consistency throughout the year Current State:
Communication blast sent; follow up planned for next weekIdentified contacts included int he mail blast Individual outreach to The Equity, Southern States/GROWMARK completed Feedback is to really focus on the business issues in the first call and keep technology solutions conversation to a minimum ACTION: Case studies to be identified for communication along with the email next weekACTIONS: Second email blast week of 11 Jan 2021 Identify case studies to share in advance with new/prospective participants; could send to everyone in the second email blast 4 Discuss any additional items that came up during meeting that need to be addressed in another meet-up
5 Next Meeting () Is there a need for another Meet-Up
6 Adjournment () Adjourn Meeting adjourned at am Chicago time
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Who When Assigned What Deadline Status
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