13TH ECR ASIA PACIFIC CONFERENCE ... - GS1 Singapore

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One of the key features of the conference was the CEOs’
Panel Session. Head of FMCG industry such as Walmart
Asia, Unilever and The Coca-Cola Company discussed how
sustainability remains the heart of all their innovation of their
product and how productivity from farm to fork can translate
to cost savings to the consumers.
Mr Seah Kian Peng, Chief Executive of supermarket chain
NTUC FairPrice, which is also a member of ECR Asia
Pacific, said: 'If we're able to increase productivity and
become more efficient, we can keep costs down. These cost
savings can be passed on to consumers... in the form of
better prices.'
• Silver Award (Consumer Value Creation Through Joint
Promotion & Event Forecasting): Project presented by Vijay
Nehra, Customer Service Director, Modern Trade & Ganesh
Ananthanarayanan, General Manager Modern Trade from
Unilever and Uday Varma, Commercial Director & Erika Vida,
Supply Chain Director from TESCO.
• Bronze Award (Logistics Distribution Integration Dr ives
Supply Chain Optimization): Project presented by Denny Yang,
Head of Supply Chain Management & Logistics of METRO China,
Lina Hu, METRO Customer Team Director of Procter & Gamble
and Alfons Van-Woerkom, Customer Service Director Asia,
AMET, Russia of Unilever.
Co-organised by ECR Asia Pacific Council, ECR Singapore and
GS1 Singapore, this conference received support from Singapore
Manufacturers’ Federation, Consumer Association of Singapore,
Employment and Employability Institute, GS1, IT Standards
Committee of Singapore and Singapore Exhibition & Convention
Bureau.
The conference concluded with Mr Alex von-Behr, Co-chair of
ECR Asia Pacific handing over the ECR Asia Council flag to Ms
Anna Lin, CEO of GS1 Hong Kong. GS1 Hong Kong will be
hosting the 14 th ECR Asia Pacific Conference in Hong Kong in
2014.
MOS Mr Tan Chuan-Jin (right) visiting the Unilever booth
The highlight at this year’s event was the ECR Awards
2012. The top 3 best practices of ECR in Asia Pacific were
awarded by the ECR Asia-Pacific in recognition of their
excellent and commendable achievements on their
respective projects to up productivity and hence bring a
collective benefit to consumers. The winners were:
• Gold Award (E -Commerce Innovation): Project
presented by Eddie Hu, Emerging Channel General
Manager of Unilever and Liu Junling, CEO of Yihaodian.com
To our sponsors - Thank you!
Much of the success of this conference was due to the support of
sponsors and their contribution in containing the cost for
attendees.
GS1 Singapore expresses deep appreciation for the support of
each of these sponsors – SAP, Accenture, CHEP, Coca-Cola,
P&G, Unilever, Walmart, ABeam Consulting, Back Office
Associates, IGD, LHT, Loscam, SATO, Diageo and Paclin.
Comments from Delegate
“The number of high caliber international speakers at
the 13 th ECR Asia Pacific Conference is really impressive
and my team learnt a lot from the sessions.”
-FMCG Supplier
Ms Anna Lin (first from left) receiving the ECR Asia Council flag
CEO panel session in progress. (From left: Mr Chris Cave Jones,
from Mr Alex von-Behr (second from left), Co-chair of ECR Asia
Director, IBM; Mr Scott Price, CEO, Walmart Asia; Mr Harish Manwani,
Pacific.
COO, Unilever; Mr Seah Kian Peng, CEO, NTUC Fairprice and Mr Glenn
Jordan, President of Pacific Group, The Coca-Cola Company.
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