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Bangkok Post, Thailand, The Weekly Link Column.
Sep. 3--Last week we wrote about the demand and supply aspects of Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) improvement concepts. This week we'll write about the Integration aspects. Next week, the Enablers.
The key integration aspect of ECR is one of the "hot" approaches in business today, not just the grocery trade, and is known as Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR). The concepts are not new: partnership, trust, sharing of information, co-operation. Indeed, they are the core of ECR. But, what is new is the will and technology to actually effect collaboration across enterprise boundaries.
The business problem at the heart of these efforts is uncertainty. Uncertainty about the precise outcomes of particular economic events, such as opening a store or a web site for business, increasing advertising, changing a retail price, opening a nearby ...
- European CPFR insights, facilitated by Accenture, ECR Europe, 2002.
- Magazine article from: European Retail Digest Cuthbertson, Richard September 1, 2002 700+ words
...publication follows on from "A Guide to CPFR Implementation", presented at the ECR Conference in Glasgow last year and was...the lessons learned and the outlook for CPFR in the future. The ECR Europe CPFR Project Team responsible for the report...
- Collaboration headaches: retailers and suppliers have been discovering that...
- Magazine article from: Grocer Foster, Steve June 14, 2003 700+ words
...suppliers. From these developments, CPFR evolved in 1998 as an US-industry...not standardised. This is where ECR Europe came in as large retailers...efficiencies into the supply chain. ECR Europe introduced CPFR methodology at the Glasgow conference...
- TO DEBATE OR COLLABORATE: IN DEFENSE OF CPFR.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Food Logistics ANDRASKI, JOSEPH C. June 15, 1999 700+ words
...Nabisco Inc., is chairman, CPFR Committee, VICS, and a former member of the ECR Operating Committee. When I...article on "The Empty Promise of CPFR" (April 15, 1999) I was...taken a similar position on CPFR. Most of them were not familiar...
- As ECR Fades, A New Era Dawns.
- Magazine article from: Food Logistics ROBINSON, ALAN March 1, 2000 700+ words
...initiatives spurred by ECR, "the technology will...for initiatives like CPFR," he says. "Elements of ECR worked pretty well...that for the concepts of ECR, "it's like 'the...Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) getting a major boost...
- Logility Announces Voyager XPS; Internet-based Application Assists Companies...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 20, 1999 700+ words
...forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) that crosses traditional boundaries with trading partners. CPFR is the next evolution in the...Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), Continuous Replenishment...Response (QR) business model, CPFR goes beyond these models by streamlining...
- CPFR Increases Sales.(Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment...
- Magazine article from: The Food Institute Report July 6, 1998 700+ words
...Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) is the latest program to be...Efficient Consumer Response (ECR). The concept requires retailers...establish preset order amounts. CPFR is supposed to level traditional...Mart also has plans for other CPFR programs with Procter &...
- CPFR Increases Sales
- Magazine article from: The Food Institute Report July 6, 1998 700+ words
...ForecasTIng, and Replenish- ment (CPFR) is the latest program to be...Efficient Consumer Response (ECR). The concept requires retailers...establish preset order amounts. CPFR is supposed to level tradiTIonal...Mart also has plans for other CPFR programs with Procter &...
- CPFR is on its way: industry leaders are supercharging their supply chains with...
- Magazine article from: Food Logistics Andraski, Joseph October 15, 2003 700+ words
...organizational resistance to CPFR, Y2K, the dot-com bust...University pointed out to the CPFR Committee that the business community...planning tool. We reflected back to ECR (Efficient Consumer Response...the academic community in the CPFR education process, i.e...