2022-01-18 Ag Retail Meet Up
 Participants
Present | Name | Company |
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X | Brent Kemp | AgGateway |
X | Uriah Paddock | Ceres |
X | Randy Sunderman | Heartland Cooperative |
X | Jeremy W Wilson | AgGateway |
X | Greg Fish | GROWMARK |
X | Pam Rinker | SSI |
X | Ann Vande Lune | Key Cooperative |
X | Ahren Bryant | Syngenta |
X | Charles Will | Southern States |
X | Greg Baldwin | EFC Systems |
X | Julie Benick | Winfield United |
X | Joe Gifford | Syngenta |
X | Julie Malson | Co-Alliance |
X | Scott Meredith | ACS |
X | Cheryl McWhorter | The Equity |
X | Josh Wall | AgGateway |
Terms:
MSA = Moved, Seconded & Approved
 Meeting Information
 Date | 2022-01-18 |
 Time | 1:30 pm Chicago |
 Web | https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/421235453 |
 Phone | +1 (571) 317-3116 |
 Access Code | 421-235-453 |
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.
Documents:
 Agenda/Minute
Topic (Leader) | Desired Outcome Sub-topics, supporting documentation, additional resources | Meeting Minutes | |
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1 | Welcome, Antitrust and Introduction () 2 min. | Welcome the group - review Antitrust statement In all of AgGateway's operations and activities, it must avoid discussions or conduct that might violate applicable antitrust laws, or even appear to do so. To that end, AgGateway has established Antitrust Guidelines, which it has provided to each participant in this meeting. While it is your ultimate responsibility to ensure that your actions comply with applicable antitrust laws, your participation in this meeting is affirmation that you will abide by AgGateway's guidelines. | Antitrust statement stated. |
2 | Minutes Taker () 1 min. | A meeting taker has been selected. | Brent Kemp will capture notes. |
3 | Upcoming Supply Chain Identification Meet Up planning | The group is aware of current plans and has opportunity to ask and have questions answered
| Discussed plans for next week's meet up related to implementation of GTIN in CP messaging. At conference Bayer volunteered to pilot a CP-oriented GTIN implementation. Other manufacturers have indicated this is also on their roadmap for 2022. Understanding ability to standardize on package configuration, item maintenance, and value of moving to the GTIN are on the agenda for next week's call. Presenters will also share value of implementation in other segments such as CN, Seed.  Desired outcome is at least agreement on timing for a pilot with report out and lessons learned. |
4 | Current organizational updates | The group is aware of changes in staffing, structural groups, and has opportunities to ask questions.
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5 | Energy Meeting | Group understands the status of current communications on energy discussions and defines next steps as applicable.
| Defer to future call or separate follow up. Per email sent in early Jan, CountryMark has need for internal discussion in order to understand priority of customers as there is low internal need at this time. Interest by Heartland, pointing CHS towards the conversation as well. |
6 | Ideation | Group has opportunity to place new ideas on the floor, discuss, and determine next steps. |
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7 | Other items ()Â | Discuss any additional items that came up during meeting that need to be addressed in another meet-up | No additional items placed on the agenda |
8 | Next Meeting () | Is there a need for another Meet-Up | Next ag retail meet up planned for 15 March at 13:30 Chicago time |
9 | Adjournment () | Adjourn | Meeting adjourned at 2:07 pm Chicago time |
Tasks/Action Items
Who | When Assigned | What | Deadline | Status |
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All | Â | Parties requested to provide any updates on connectivity to Member Services | Ongoing | |