ECR AP - The need for collaboration - ECR Community

Singapore, May 18 th , 2012
On the occasion of the 13 th ECR Asia-Pacific conference held in Singapore this week, it was announced
that Francois Gay-Bellile, Coca-Cola Pacific’s Vice President Customer Leadership is to become ECR
Asia-Pacific’s new manufacturers’ co-chair.
Francois, who succeeds Alex von Behr, will work alongside Anthony Rose, ECR AP’s retailers’ co-chair,
to continue to promote collaboration between retailers and manufacturers, in order to deliver improvements
across the industry and ensure it delivers on the needs and growing expectations
of the hundreds of millions of people it touches every day in Asia-
Pacific.
“I am honored to have been appointed to this role by my colleagues from
ECR Asia-Pacific. Following the strategic alignment with the Consumer
Goods Forum agreed last year, it has become clear that ECR AP is the perfect
forum to accelerate the adoption of best practices across our industry, as
demonstrated this week at the 13 th ECR AP conference. Our priorities for the
future remain the same, to have a positive impact on the whole industry,
whether on supply chain or on the fulfilling demand from consumers, by
working better together and sharing more actively insights and knowledge.”
“I am delighted to welcome Francois as co chairman. The focus of the ECR
AP. Council understands emerging trends, sharing best practices and encour-
aging productive collaboration between retailers and manufacturers. This will finally benefit our customers
and consumers." said Anthony Rose, who is VP, Public Affairs at Wal Mart in addition to his
ECR AP role.
ECR AP New Member: Fonterra has joined to ECR AP on the 1 st of June
2012. Antony Moess-Regional Supply Chain Manager AMEA -will be the
member of the Council. He has also joint to our Operational Excellence Committee
ECR AP News
ISSUE 02 Summer 2012
Efficient Consumer Response Asia Pacific
(ECR AP) is an independent joint trade and
industry body, which is co-chaired by representatives
from the retail sector and the manufacturing
sector. It promotes the use of Efficient
Consumer Response techniques in Fast Moving Consumer Good (FMCG) retailing
to remove unnecessary costs from the supply chain and make the sector, as a
whole, more responsive to consumer demand.
For more information please visit our website: www.ecr-all.org or contact us at
Ivett@ecr-all.org
ECR ASIA PACIFIC NEWS
Editorial:
Francois Gay-Bellile
Anthony Rose
If you have any topic, article, news what you would like to share in the next issue please do not
hesitate and send it to us (Ivett@ecr-all.org) until the 1 st of October.
Also we would like to make sure that this newsletter is
useful for you therefore if you have any feedback please let us know.
Editor: Ivett Katalin Nagy
Contributors: Alex von Behr, Stephanie
Penning, Chris Cave Jones, Heidi
Ho, Marc Van Der Liet, Samantha
Blake, Ringuet Claude, Michael Haas,
James Layard, Nadjah Azimidini,
Alina Goretskaya, Nigel Bagley, Ivett
Katalin Nagy, Anthony Rose, Francois
Gay-Bellile, Anna Vinogradova
Designer: Ivett Katalin Nagy
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