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The current economic downturn has hit retail and consumer products companies particularly hard, and closely managing margin in today's environment can be a matter of life or death. Read on to find out how Solo Cup Company streamlined the end-to-end product lifecycle to tackle these market pressures head on.

Here's how Kellogg Company approached using advanced analytics and demand data to model promotion variables.

CGT presents the most recent crop of consumer goods "Visionaries" -- 10 influential leaders who are shaping the future of their respective companies with unprecedented business and technology initiatives.

In 2008, Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. recognized there were opportunities to better manage pricing and distributor margins at the market level. A cross functional team was assembled to commence a large-scale price improvement initiative.

Find out how your company can leverage in-memory computing to reach new heights in analytics and business insight.

HP and Coca-Cola FEMSA will consolidate 348 locations to a single data center in Mexico and migrate business-critical SAP applications and server monitoring and management to HP Best Shore locations in Brazil and Argentina.

Newell Rubbermaids Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process has been the subject of an intensive improvement effort over the past two years. In fact, an S&OP initiative launched in 2008, generated 30 percent more cash for a total of $603 million in 2009.

The services will support Carlsbergs future growth through the introduction of common business processes and an enhanced ability to share best practices across its European operations.