Unilever North America partners with IBM to transform and manage strategic sourcing and procurement operations of indirect materials and services for its North American operations.
In a world where it seems as though so much undue pressure is being thrust upon the CPG industry by their retail "partners", I find it oddly amusing when many of the CPG executives I talk to are more than happy to discuss the finer points of growing their customers business.
It's an unfortunate fact of consumer goods manufacturing that not every bottle, tube or pack flows through distribution to a retailer's operations and, ultimately, to the consumer's home and stays there, satisfying the customer.
