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* Availability 2007
Availability 2007 December 2007
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The complete guide to availability in UK supermarkets, this free report includes details of ECR UK's bi-monthly on-shelf availability surveys, the factors influencing the optimum on-shelf availability and the role of people in delivering great on-shelf availability.
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* Availability Assessment Tool for Convenience Store Operations
Availability Assessment Tool for Convenience Store Operations December 2007
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A free tool from IGD and ECR UK to help independent convenience store retailers tackle the root causes of poor on-shelf availability. Download your copy today
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* Building on Success
Building on Success November 2010
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In this free download, we examine some of the challenges facing our industry and wider society - climate, water, resources, population - and look at great examples of organisations innovating to meet these challenges head on.
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* Collaborative Green Distribution
Collaborative Green Distribution February 2007
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The grocery supply chain must act to improve collaboration across transport networks. Find out how with this free guide, which examines the opportunities, challenges, learnings and future steps for creating multi-partner logistics solutions.
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* Consolidated Distribution
Consolidated Distribution November 2008
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Find the right consolidation solution for your business with this free online resource from ECR UK. It includes retailer and manufacturer case studies, an interactive map of consolidation sites and advice on the best consolidated distribution approach for your business.
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* Easy ID Guidelines
Easy ID Guidelines New
June 2011
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Learn how to produce secondary packaging solutions that are EasyID so your products get on sale with this free guide.
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* ECR - Synch and Swim
ECR - Synch and Swim November 2006
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The simple idea behind data synchronisation is that the seamless sharing of information, enabled by technology, can create value and eliminate waste on a grand scale. The aim of this guide is to provide a simple, no-nonsense introduction to something that, in business terms, can be as revolutionary as the light bulb.
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* Getting the Right Mix
Getting the Right Mix April 2010
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The food & grocery industry is facing a series of economic, environmental and social challenges. In this free download, we discuss how to solve these new challenges and how getting the right mix of skills and motivation in our people is so important.
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* Optimising Load Fill: A Best Practice Guide
Optimising Load Fill: A Best Practice Guide October 2009
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Increase your load fill and reduce costs with this free online resource. It will help you make your deliveries more efficient, show you best practice examples from across the industry, and guide you to the most appropriate load fill solution for your business.
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* Optimising Transport Modes
Optimising Transport Modes November 2010
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Explore the alternative transport modes available and reduce your road miles with this free online resource. It shows how retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers are using alternative modes and non-standard road vehicles and will help to identify the best solution for your business.
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* Preventing Retail Shrinkage
Preventing Retail Shrinkage June 2010
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Learn how to prevent retail shrinkage with this free guide. It measures the ‘Value’ of CCTV, EAS and Data Mining Tools, includes a step by step guide on how to develop persuasive business case for investment in shrinkage solutions, and provides a detailed understanding of how to measure the ‘value’ of such investments.
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* Promotional On-Shelf Availability: Insight and Best Practice
Promotional On-Shelf Availability: Insight and Best Practice November 2009
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Improve the on-shelf availability of your promotions with this free online resource from ECR UK, featuring our top tips & best practice recommendations to improving promotional availability across the supply chain.
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* Retail Packaging Material Cycles - Identifying opportunities to reduce landfill
Retail Packaging Material Cycles - Identifying opportunities to reduce landfill November 2008
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A free guide giving practical best practice advice on how to reduce the amount of retail ready packaging (RRP) sent to landfill, helping to reduce the environmental impact and the cost of raw materials and landfill fees.
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* Retail Ready Packaging
Retail Ready Packaging September 2006
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A simple, no-nonsense introduction to Retail Ready Packaging in the food & grocery industry. This free download includes guidelines on choosing the right packaging solution, and details on how RRP can respond to both shopper needs and retailer's strategies.
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* Retail Ready Packaging Functional Guidelines
Retail Ready Packaging Functional Guidelines January 2007
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Do you know how to deliver effective Retail Ready Packaging (RRP)? This guide will help improve collaboration between retailers and suppliers, aid packaging development and help you deliver the most practical RRP solution for your business and your customers.
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* Retailer Accepted Merchandising Units Formats Guide
Retailer Accepted Merchandising Units Formats Guide June 2007
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How effective are your packaging solutions? This free tool will help you assess ten Merchandising Units (MU) formats and match them to industry needs across the major retailers Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Somerfield, Tesco & Waitrose.
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* Road Miles Savings Calculator
Road Miles Savings Calculator November 2008
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Capture and record the road miles you are saving as a result of changes made to logistics activities with this free interactive calculator.
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* RRP Assessment Tool
RRP Assessment Tool May 2007
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Evaluate the potential effectiveness of a proposed RRP solution against alternative options, current or competitor packaging with this free tool, designed to be used in conjunction with the Retail Ready Packaging Functional Guidelines.
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* Shelf Ready Packaging: Addressing the challenge
Shelf Ready Packaging: Addressing the challenge March 2007
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This download highlights the various Shelf Ready Packaging (SRP) initiatives used across Europe, and provides guidelines to help you implement SRP successfully in-store to provide more value to the consumer.
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* Shelf Sizes Standardisation Guide
Shelf Sizes Standardisation Guide July 2007
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Find out how to maximise shelf fill and accommodate retailer ready packaging "easy replenishment" requirements with this free shelf sizes matrix covering four major retailers and 35 categories.
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* Supply Chain Waste Prevention<br> from factory in-gate to till
Supply Chain Waste Prevention
from factory in-gate to till
November 2010
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Learn how to prevent product and packaging waste between factory in-gate and till with this free online resource from ECR UK
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* On shelf availability *
* Bringing the industry together to measure and manage on-shelf availability has helped us to make a real difference to the consumer. *
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