Data & Analytics

Supply Chain Report 2020: A Wake-Up Call for the Future of Consumer Goods

Just five short months ago, the consumer goods industry was focused on building a supply chain to support the omnichannel era, focusing on four key areas: demand planning, fulfillment, manufacturing, and last-mile delivery. However, since then the industry has been flipped on its head.

Growth in Uncertainty: Imagine the Next

For investors, consumer products were a safe bet: a shelter in bad times, a reliable source of growth in better times. The good news for companies is that this dynamic lasted for a very long time.

One in (Seven) Million: Linking AI with Design To Get Products To Market Faster and More Easily

How do you create one-of-kind packaging designs — and still maintain your margins?

Omnichannel Commerce & Today’s Supply Chain Processes

Omnichannel commerce is having a profound organizational impact across various industries as product manufacturers work to capture the attention—and wallets—of customers.

How Blockchain and AI Can Future-Proof the Supply Chain Against Viral Threats

Supply and retail companies continue to deliver, but there’s no doubt the supply chain is feeling the strain. To keep up, something needs to change.

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.

FedEx and Microsoft Team for Inventory & Logistics Management

FedEx and Microsoft are partnering to provide a granular level of insight into logistics and inventory management.

IRI Launches Tool to Track Price Changes

The new solution expands IRI’s proprietary offerings aiming to help companies navigate the CPG landscape amid COVID-19 and beyond.

Coca-Cola Tapping Real-Time Insights for Employee & Customer Engagement

The Coca-Cola Company is teaming with Microsoft in the name of employee and customer engagement.

Nichefire Brings AI for Marketing to Nielsen Connect Partner Network

Nichefire, a developer of artificial intelligence for marketing and competitive insight has joined the open ecosystem of solution providers for retailers and consumer goods manufacturers.

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Movista Pivots from Retail Execution to Project Health during Pandemic

Project Health provides daily employee health assessments for essential businesses like consumer goods and retail, in order to protect the safety of the public-at-large.

IRI Measuring Consumer Purchase Shifts on a Weekly Level

Big data and predictive analytics provider IRI has released a new metric measuring weekly changes in consumer purchases to account for the rapidly shifting behavior stemming from the spread of COVID-19.

Bedrock Analytics and Nielsen CPG Data Power Free Trial

A new partnership provides CPG manufacturers with a 45-day free trial of a comprehensive CPG analytics platform available.