Welcome, Antitrust and Introduction () 5 min.

Introduced Mural to participants. Captured observations for future consideration and potential action as applicable.

• Observation that for the most part, remote work serves well. In some cases, though, the lack of face to face ability results in reduced ability to work together and move work forward.
  • Not a group building or trust building issue; mainly about dedicated, heads down time
• Locations struggling with reliable, stable internet connectivity

• 2019 New Messages
  • Don't believe anyone is working on the new messages
  • Some motion on Order-to-Booking
  • Consolidation at the manufacturers is slowing things - internal system  consolidation
  • Suggest scheduling regular, ongoing calls
  • Don't believe we had finished the eBOL message - need to bring this back as a working group - planned to start in March 2020
    • Transportation, chemicals may be in scope
    • Believe there is an eBOL that has been deployed for chemicals
    • At a high level, this was a retailer-to-manufacturer initiated process:
      • Retailer has product to return
      • Needs BOL from the manufacturer to show "what we are putting on your truck to return"
      • Burden of ownership is what results in requirement that MFR produce the BOL
      • Tactic: Include review of chemicals-oriented message (ShipNotice) as part of the evaluation
      • Current process is manual, direct keyed into a manufacturer portal
      • Want to avoid this if possible
      • ACTION: Plan a call for November - tee up for annual conference session
      • Tactic: Make sure we have development work queued up for Q1/Q2 2021
• One new issue - price message download
  • In the event soybean has no zone for prices, differences in implementation by manufacturer observed
  • Some additional information is being seen in price sheets as well
    • Depending upon how a received is handling the data, may not have been noticed
    • Was happy to see some of these new elements, such as relative maturity - find it beneficial
  • Any recollection on whether a defined code list was set up for zone? Not on the call.
  • ACTION: Randy Fry to revisit business rules documentation to see whether there is any documentation on how such should be handled
• Would like to see a general session on bringing the 2019 messages back up for awareness to the members - give manufacturers that have stepped up an opportunity to talk on this? 
• Any priority to the message set? If someone wants to implement, build a capability matrix as well as a prospective development calendar aligned with the messages? Message priority could be based on the time of year available for development.

Association outreach, communication, and AgGateway awareness () - 10 minutes

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