Climate Change Financial Disclosure
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Supply Chain, Consumer Value
Efficient Consumer Response
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Commercial Retail
Summary:
Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) is a joint initiative by members of the supply
chain to work to improve and optimize aspects of the supply chain and demand
management to create benefits for the consumer in the forms of lower prices, more
choice variety, and better product availability. 1
The Efficient Consumer Response initiative offers collaborative working practices
between retailers and suppliers that focus on fulfilling consumer needs more
efficiently and effectively. The practices focus on the relationships between the
following improvement concepts2:
 Demand management: demand strategy and optimization
 Enablers: global data synchronization and identification standards
 Integrators: collaborative planning and forecasting
 Supply management: supply strategies and operational excellence
ECR designed the Global Scorecard, which is a capability assessment tool that gives
companies a detailed understanding of their ECR capability and highlights specific
improvement opportunities for them utilizing the aforementioned improvement
concepts.3
http://ecr-all.org
http://ecr-all.org
3 http://ecr-all.org
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