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The combined company aims to offer complementary merchandise protection and inventory management applications.

CGT is proud to present the most recent crop of Consumer Goods Visionaries - those industry thought-leaders who are driving change and innovation in both their companies and the industry as a whole. Ranging from CIOs and senior vice presidents at major Fortune 500 firms to executives from innovative mid-market companies, CGT's Visionaries list is a who's who of industry leaders.

While 8.3 percent is the industry average for out of stocks, somesupermarkets are successfully employing technologies that maintainaccurate shelf, store and warehouse stock levels.

AMR Research says consumer goods manufacturers, including Procter & Gamble, Anheuser-Busch and Nike, among others, exhibited superior supply chain capabilities and performance for 2008.

HP and EDS sign a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase EDS at a price of $25.00 per share, or an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion. The deal will better position HP to rival IBM in the global IT outsourcing and business process outsourcing markets. Read on to find out the details of the acquisition, plus find out what industry analysts from AMR Research have to say about it.

In 2007, the Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled 447 products for safety concerns. In 2008, the incidence of recalls doesn't seem to be slowing down. A company's ability to react quickly and effectively in the unfortunate event of a recall has a profound impact on its ability to rebuild brand trust. So, CGT picked the brains of industry experts on everything from avoiding the primary causes of product recalls to preparing a company's supply chain to react if and when a recall hits.

Global manufacturer Ryobi Technologies Inc. implemented Cognos 8 BI and Cognos ReportNet to improve communication and credibility of information world.

Contributing author Simon Ellis, practice director, supply chain strategies for Manufacturing Insights, an IDC company, provides step by step instructions on how supply chain professionals can better sense and respond to massive amounts of data rather than become victim to it.