ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 10/11/2010
Foster's Gains Global View of Operations
Mergers and acquisitions have caused Foster's to have a mix of enterprise resource planning systems and different methods for defining and processing key business data, such as information on customers and products. - 10/7/2010
IBM Officially Owns Unica Corporation
The deal expands IBM's initiatives to help organizations gain customer insight and transform marketing through technology. - 10/7/2010
Domino Sugar Puts SAP in the Cloud
The largest producer and distributor of sweetener products in North America deploys Virtustream Inc.'s xStream Cloud platform to optimize its entire infrastructure, which includes a multi-thousand seat SAP enterprise application system. - 10/7/2010
Wal-Mart Boosts Production of Sustainable Products
The retail giant launches an innovative new program to bring the latest generation of environmentally responsible products to consumers nationwide. - 10/5/2010
Unilever's Global Effort to Become More Demand Driven
Doug Sloan, director of Supply Chain Operations for Unilever North America, reveals details of the company's journey to boost its demand sensing and inventory optimization capabilities globally. - 10/5/2010
VANTAGE POINT: Exploring Shared Services for Customer Management
As shared services units specialize in performing repetitive transaction based tasks, consumer companies can leverage the service model to perform tasks that require high-end business and consulting skill sets that may not be widely available in the organization. - 10/4/2010
Coca-Cola Licenses Dr Pepper Brands
Under the new licensing agreements, Coca-Cola will distribute Dr Pepper in the United States and Canada Dry in the Northeast U.S. where these brands were formerly distributed by Coca-Cola Enterprises. - 10/4/2010
Jones Apparel Group Gets New Name
The new name embraces Jones' heritage while signaling its vision for the future across its apparel, footwear, jeanswear, jewelry and handbag divisions. - 10/4/2010
Bacardi Invests $250M in Dewar's
The Dewar's expansion project, which started in July 2007, will be completed in phases over 10 years. - 10/4/2010
Hanesbrands Selects New Demand Sensing Solution
The solution will eventually scale across Hanesbrands' extended value chain, delivering cross-departmental sales insights and analytics to hundreds of business practitioners.