AEC Introductory Meeting Thursday

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AEC Introductory MeetingThursday

• July 21-22, 2004
• Des Moines, IA

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Agenda - Thursday

• Anti-trust
• Team Dynamics
• EC Challenges
• Implementation Tools Overview
• Issues Resolution Process
• Current Issues Resolutions
• Agenda for Conference
• Next steps

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Anti-trust Guidelines - Summary

• Do not discuss with competitors your own, or a
  competitors, prices do not discuss anything
  that
• might affect prices, such as costs, discounts,
  terms
• of sale, profit margins or any other
  competitively
• sensitive information. Do not discuss capacity
  or output.
• Do not stay at a meeting where any such talk
  occurs.
• Do not make general announcements or statements
  at RAPID meetings about your business secrets,
  such as sales strategies, new product
  development, capacity expansion or restrictions,
  or any such intended activity.
• Do not talk about what your company plans to do
  in specific markets, or with certain classes of
  customers,
• or with regard to types of products.
• Anti-trust guidelines can be found on the RAPID
  Website

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Fuzzy Names

• Fuzzy Names.xls

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What Are The Top Challenges of EC?

• The top 10 technical issues for EC (by order of
  importance) are
• Security
• adequate infrastructure
• data access
• back-end systems integration
• band-width
• network connectivity
• Uptime
• data warehousing and mining
• systems that do not scale
• content distribution.

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What Are The Top Challenges of EC?

• The 10 managerial issues for the introduction of
  EC are
• Budgets
• project deadlines
• keeping up with technology
• Privacy
• high cost of capital expenditures
• unrealistic management expectations
• Training
• reaching new customers
• improving customer ordering services
• employee hiring revision.

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Implementation Tools Overview

• http//www.rapidnet.org/MembersOnly/aec/AEC-Implem
  entation.asp

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Issues Resolution Process
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Conference Agenda

• Issues recommendation from Jul 22 meeting
• Other issues
• Review Timeline
• Data Synchronization Review

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Next Steps

• Mh - Send out all the documents via email
• Distributors - need to send their input on
  schedule by 7/30 (please rename the file with
  company and date)
• Various sub-groups to meet and work on
  recommendations for conference.
• Conf. Calls to review the Data Synchronization
• Conf. Call to review mapping.
• MH Set up everyone on eProjects
• All email Marilyn with dates for the planning
  session and kick off meetings.

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Questions?