ABOUT US

 

OUR VISION & MISSION

The TPF’s vision is to be the leading hub across Australia and New Zealand for FMCG suppliers, retailers, wholesalers and their partners to collaborate on enhancing end-to-end value chain performance.

Our mission is to strengthen industry collaboration for enhancing and optimising end-to-end value chains, through development of standards, provision of valuable insights and measurement and reporting to drive compliance.

OUR COMPOSITION & MEMBERSHIP

The Forum is comprised of retailer and supplier members, spanning Australia and New Zealand, with programs managed by the Australian Food & Grocery Council.

OUR WAYS OF WORKING

The TPF operates through pre-competitive collaboration between industry stakeholders. The core ways of working:

  • Industry Standards: Facilitate the development and alignment of industry standards to improve supply chain efficiency.

  • Industry Alignment: Regularly assess the impact of standards to ensure they remain relevant to industry needs, promoting adoption and encouraging alignment with best practices.

  • Information Repository: Develop and maintain a comprehensive database of resources, guidelines, case studies, and industry standards.

  • Knowledge Sharing and Industry Engagement: Deliver conferences, webinars, education materials and training sessions to promote industry alignment, best practices and collaboration.

COMPETITION STATEMENT

The following statement is read aloud and affirmed at every TPF meeting:

”The AFGC’s Trading Partner Forum requires that participants at this meeting must not enter into any discussion, arrangement or understanding that may, in any way, infringe applicable competition laws.

In particular, members and participants must not:

  • discuss or agree on prices, price changes or any element of price (including rebates, discounts, credit terms or surcharges);

  • discuss or agree on bids or tenders, including who is bidding or not and on what terms;

  • discuss or agree on the products they each supply or the quantity they supply;

  • discuss or agree on marketing territories or the locations they supply;

  • discuss or agree on the customers, suppliers or other third parties they deal with, or the terms on which they deal with them (including trading terms and conditions);

  • exchange any non-public or commercially sensitive information relating to:

    • prices or price changes (including any element of price),

    • purchasing, production and supply chain strategy or capacity,

    • marketing, advertising or promotional strategy, or

    • profit, costs or revenues.

Such topics must be avoided in formal meetings. Please keep discussions within the scope of the set agenda items as off-topic discussions may represent a compliance risk.

Participants are encouraged at any time to challenge any discussions that might contravene this statement.”

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