EIPS Meeting Minutes
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000. Coronado Springs Resort, Orlando
Meeting Attendees:
EIPS:
| Ron Johnson (Intel) |
| Paul Russell (HP) |
| Travis Tyson (Micron)* |
| Richard Black (AMP)* |
| Bob Sanders (IBM) |
| Mark James (Xerox) |
| Dave Leinberger (Xerox) |
| John Koning (Univ. of Wisconsin) |
| Paul Koning (Williams Sonoma) |
* Dialed In by Phone
CHEP USA:
| Kevin Shuba (VP, Fast Moving Consumer Goods) |
| Brian Beattie (Sr. VP, New Business, Marketing, and Govt. Relations) |
| Cliff Otto (Sr. VP, Sales) |
Minutes:
| Bob Sanders opened the meeting with roll call and a review of the anti-trust statement | ||||||||||||
| Bob also followed with some charts summarizing results to date, task group objectives, and the draft spec. for the benefit of new members (previously distributed) | ||||||||||||
| John Clarke then led a group discussion on some open items with regard to settling on
the performance requirements:
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CHEP
Executives then gave a presentation on their programs including various pallet designs they have available. Their charts will soon be posted to the website for reference. Paul Russell reported that one division of HP was using CHEP presently with good success for a retail channel and was looking to expand that to other areas. The committee did express some concerns about how to manage the system considering that not all of our customers would be part of the CHEP system. Also, CHEP operates in about 30 countries whereas many of us operate in over 100 countries. CHEP did have some 48x40 as well as 1200x1000 and 1200 x 800 pallets (in both wood and plastic) to offer. They did confirm the global trend towards block style pallets even in the US. If a mutually beneficial arrangement could be made for our industry, they would consider a custom pallet for us which is lighter in weight than their current offerings.
Actions:
| CHEP will review the content of the EIPS website and the charts that were provided and come back with some proposals. |
| CHEP will provide a softcopy of their charts for us to distribute to EIPS members |
| Paul will post the CHEP presentation on the website |
| John Clarke to summarize the suggested performance requirements and review on 5/18 conf. call |
| Paul K, Paul R, Bob, Dave, and Mark to analyze the all important "R" factor in depth |
| Bob will document the minutes and submit to Paul for posting on the website. |
