Brent Kemp

AgGateway

Susan Ruland

AgGateway

Wendy Smith

AgGateway

Jeremy Wilson

EFC Systems

Greg Fish

GROWMARK

Mark Daly

Proagrica

Noah Butler

Proagrica

Jacob Crow

GROWMARK

Dave Craft

SSI

Rob Bullock

SSI

Natasha Lily

The Equity

Eric Hoefing

Key Cooperative

Ann Vande Lune

Key Cooperative

Uriah Paddock

Ceres Solutions

Randy Fry

Ceres Solutions

Jeff Griffeth

Co-Alliance

 Date

2020-11-16

 Time

1:00 pm Chicago

 Web

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/337599037

 Phone

+1 (646) 749-3129

 Access Code

337-599-037

Welcome, Antitrust and Introduction () 5 min.

Welcome the group -

All were welcomed. Antitrust guidelines adherence confirmed.

Minutes Taker () 1 min.

A meeting taker has been selected.

@Brent Kemp will capture notes

Ag Retail Energy - ~50 minutes

Group has to review planning to date, reaffirm value and scope, and set next stepsAll 

Randy Fry and Jeff Griffeth led a review of planned 2020 energy meeting and revisited questions of need, value and next steps.

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

• Can we make this easier, faster and more efficient?

  • Consensus is YES

  • Reviewed plan for cancelled face to face meeting

    • Agree that starting with pain point documentation is the right place to begin

    • Observed that some level of trust building will be needed and valuable for success

    • Timing - need to have energy specialists available. Early in the year is not a problem

  • Small group to reconvene Dec 8, 2020 at 10 am EST/9 am CST to develop virtual meeting plan and cadence

All were thanked for great participation.

Ag retail pain point ideation () - 30 minutes

Group discusses opportunities, challenges, begins prioritization and identifies next steps.

Brent Kemp led a pain point identification discussion.

What should we be working on as ag retail?

• Crop protection messaging

  • Barcoding

  • GTIN

    • SKU count

    • Inconsistent implementation

    • UOM

  • product loads through central resource

  • end user/grower must be a consideration

• Crop nutrition may be next given the low level of energy in CP

  • is there a driver here? Ex. release of barge to truck to customer without set delivery location

  • Multiple retailers aligned with this impression

  • Identification and SKU count is making CN more attractive

  • On the other hand, there’s a lot of low tech solutions already in place here

• Seed Messages - Call to action from ag retail to push this forward

  • Ability to implement?

  • Communications piece - alignment on intent

• Priorities

• Timeline

Channel Integrity was brought up as an area where CP was active, noting that retail voices were needed.

• Noted that Nutrien representing retail in that space

• Randy observed that from his perspective as an invited participant for a few sessions there was some opportunity but not a lot of action

Susan asked about reactions to the animated video as a value for executive engagement. Feedback largely positive. Additional videos will be forthcoming; next topic planned is interoperability from an ADAPT perspective. All suggestions welcomed for future topics!

Other items () 

Discuss any additional items that came up during meeting that need to be addressed in another meet-up

No additional items for discussion today - all are invited to submit ideas, pain points, topics for additional discussion or review, or presentation ideas to Member.Services@aggateway.org

Next Meeting ()

Is there a need for another Meet-Up

Next ag retail meet up set for Jan 19, 2021  at 1:00 pm Chicago time keeping with bi-monthly, third Tuesday

Adjournment ()

Adjourn

Meeting adjourned at 2:30 pm Chicago time