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ECR Baltic Forum '10


Get Back to Efficient Consumer Response Basics. ECR Baltic Forum 2010, the biggest annual FMCG event in the Baltics, took place at Radisson Blu Hotel in Riga, Latvia, on November 11th. ECR Baltic invited  all geusts to Get Back to Efficient Consumer Response Basics by learning how to manage efficient supply and demand chains together with industry and business partners.

In 2010 year there was a number of special guests from the Baltic States, Finland, Russia, Poland and elsewhere discussing the hot topics of retailers and manufacturers: Economic Overview and Shopper Insights, Category management and supply side business cases, Electronic Data Interchange and Data Synchronization and new opportunities offered by ECRoPEDIA, social media and mobile.com were presented.

BLOCK 1: Economic Overview

Competition - Anti Trust Law Aspects for Retail and FMCG Industries (Dos and Don’ts)

Rūdolfs Eņģelis (Sorainen Law Office)

Estonia Enters Euroland: A Two-speed Baltic Economic Development Ahead?

Morten Hansen (Stockholm School of Economics in Riga; NMS Consulting)

Global Consumer Trends and the Baltic States: Beyond the Crisis

Daphne Kasriel-Alexander (Euromonitor)

BLOCK 2: Supply Chain Efficiency

Solving Pallet Issues for Better Trading

Mateusz Boruta (ECR Poland)

On Shelf Availability (OSA) Project: Retailer & Manufacturer Cooperation

Darius Lapienis (Rimi Baltic) and Nadežda Naumenko (Unilever)

BLOCK 3: Enabling Technologies (EDI)

Masterdata Synchronization

Mihhail Ralkin (Edisoft)

E-Invoices in Retail: Requirements, Progress, Challenges

Hele Hammer (Telema) and Aleksei Dobrõšman (Edisoft)

Gaining Shopper Insights Using Market Basket Analysis

Innar Liiv (Tallinn University of Technology)

BLOCK 4: Shopper Insights

Category Management – New Ways of Cooperation

Jukka Jokiranta (ECR Finland)

Cutting the Assortment: Global Learnings

Gilles Gros ( Nielsen Company)

Drawing Brand Face - Consumer Touch. Case study.

Ilze Kronberga (TNS Latvia)

BLOCK 5: Competitive Advantage for the Future

The Socialization of Brands

Kārlis Gedrovics (Inspired)

The Role of Internal Communication in Pursuit of a Silver Bullet: Improving Cross-Departmental Cooperation

by Uldis Pāvuls (Energise) & Anete Gribuste (Hill and Knowlton)