Data & Analytics

6 Steps to Predicting Shifting Demand Patterns While Navigating the Coronavirus Crisis

The biggest unknown is whether there will be a delayed economic recovery or a prolonged contraction. Regardless of the outcome, retailers and their CPG suppliers need to think ahead and be prepared to act quickly.

Setting a New Bar for a New Supply Chain

As manufacturers adapt to a path to purchase that includes meeting customers almost anywhere, they’re now learning how to become as adept at customized fulfillment as they've been at moving mass quantities of products.

Digital Darwinism & Generation C: Navigating the Future of Business with Digital Transformation

Digital transformation now isn't a one-and-done event, and it's certainly more than just a collection of data. To really effect change, an organization must embrace a purposeful mindset shift, and cognitive automation can lead the way.

Finding the Missing ROI in Digital Transformation

Consumer goods companies are under tremendous pressure to transform, but the ROI is missing for many digital transformation projects as it puts new demands on networks. Find the missing piece of consumer goods manufacturers' digital transformation ROI puzzle.

3 Trends That Will Revolutionize the Loyalty Industry

Due to massive disruption, the loyalty industry will look very different in the next decade than it does today.

These 4 Things are Holding Back CG Firms’ Analytics Investments: McKinsey

Although consumer goods companies are investing in digital and analytics, the majority (60%) aren’t seeing an impactful ROI. Beyond the short-term consequences of these losses, long-term implications include losing share and employee talent to the companies that are.

The Impact of Machine Learning on Demand Planning Precision

This white paper, developed collaboratively by Consumer Goods Technology and SAS, examines the impact that machine learning and other automation tools are having on success at forward-thinking consumer goods organizations.

Fractal Enters Nielsen Fold

AI and analytics firm Fractal has joined the Nielsen Connect Partner Network of solutions providers for CPG retailers and manufacturers.

Chipotle, Kate Spade, Bevmo Consumer Data Exposed in Latest Breach

Security researchers have found a publicly exposed cloud database containing the personal data and behavioral profiles on 120M Americans, many from known retail and consumer brands.

Estee Lauder Dataset of 440M Records Exposed

The consumer goods beauty brand has been a household name for over 70 years, accumulating massive amounts of data reportedly at risk through digital commerce or online sales.

Tip of the Spear Technology: Cobbler Tech

CGT looks at emerging technologies. This week: Cobbler Tech’s data aggregation software.

Accenture Picks Up VanBerlo Design Agency

Accenture has acquired VanBerlo, a product design and innovation agency headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

How CPG Execs are Prepping for the Downturn that’s (Somewhere) on the Horizon

Consumer products executives should buckle in for another year of juggling the value of their tech investments with the jacked-up demands of exacting consumers — and throw some economic uncertainty into the mix for good measure.

Nielsen Adds Sean Cohan, Promotes Peter Bradbury & Karthik Rao

Nielsen Holdings is bolstering its executive ranks with a trio of appointments, including the addition of Sean Cohan from A+E Networks.