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.
Group will finalize agenda for 21 Jan meet up, assign presenters, and plan for anticipated next steps
Energy Agenda (from December 2020)
Kickoff - 5 minutes Jeff & Randy
Randy to share big picture of ag diagram, think about how energy fits in
Focus on the business issues today - steer wide of tech solutions at least to start
Introductions around the table
Intro to Ag Gateway – 5 minutes - XXX
Pain Point discussion – lead by our group ~60 minutes
Start with identified list:
logistics - shipping, transport, ship docs, BoL (wholesale and retail)
meter reading and tank tracking, (where are they, how much is in them - lessons learned from bulk and how that applies for customer implementation/customer data - something actionable versus informational - delivery trigger/keep full)
integration with existing supply chain data,
invoicing (multi-level; wholesale and retail)
Open to the group for more discussion, issue identification
Assign Priorities – Jeff & Randy 15 minutes
Next steps – (Discussion of next call agenda, furtherbrainstorming 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 exist
NACS - 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 week
Identified contacts included in the 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 week
ACTIONS:
Second email blast week of
Identify case studies to share in advance with new/prospective participants; could send to everyone in the second email blast - Mix Ticket? Seed - efficiency of ship notice and invoicing. GROWMARK study from the quick connect booklet. Brent to coordinate with Member Services.
Jacob to provide process diagram for wholesale/retail logistics, other flows
Randy and Jeff to review and revise "big picture" to make more energy friendly
All to provide any other contacts who should be invited based on conversations today
Brent to provide list of current registrants, companies to planning team by
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Other items ()
Discuss any additional items that came up during meeting that need to be addressed in another meet-up
Add energy call to ag retail meet up agenda for briefing, any final tweaks to agenda or presenters. No additional specific call needed at this time.
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