Best Practices

With more than 17,000 new food products introduced to consumers annually, Philip Lempert, the "Supermarket Guru", says that 2010 "misses" include products from recognizable brands such as Starbuck's, Wrigley's, Minute Maid and Sun Tropics. Find out which companies had hits this year and which companies missed the mark.

CGT Editor Alliston Ackerman gives you a sneak peekinto the trends and topics discussed in this month's issue.

After installing an ERP system that filled a desperate need for advanced planning tools, Jelly Belly Candy Company set its sights on deploying an accompanying customer relationship management system.

There's no doubt that quickly and accurately unlocking insights from retailer data can yield enormous benefits for consumer goods firms. Here, the manufacturer of stationary products, lighters and shavers, explains how it had put an enterprise DSR to good use.

CIOs need to change their mindset and start considering the MES as a corporate-wide business application. A new report from IDC Manufacturing Insights analyzes the top global Manufacturing Execution System vendors in order to help you select the right application.

This article analyzes 40 of the largest players in the consumer packaged goods world and how they have been able to build up enough reputation capital to become the world's most reputable industry in 2010.

Consumer products executives have anopportunity to realize competitive advantage through a new set of metrics thatare tailored toward their specific organizational structure, strategy and goals.

Adoption has skyrocketed as social networking now accounts for 11 percent of all time spent online in the United States. But how do businesses capitalize on this trend? New research from CGT and Wipro answers this burning question.