Demand Planning

As COVID-19 has shown, there has never been a better time to upend processes to embark on a digital transformation journey. To strengthen supply chains, CG supply chain planners should look to implement the following strategies.

When High Road Craft Brands was plotting its expansion, it knew it needed a better way to aggregate and leverage all of the information from its distributor reports.

In this third and final article in our series, Climbing the Sales and Operations Maturity Ladder, we explore the characteristics of S&OP process maturity and recommend actions you can take today to move to higher levels of S&OP capability.

Our client, a multi-billion-dollar consumer goods company faced complications with demand planning. Operating in over 60+ countries, with 20 million products sold daily, data acquisition from unorganized sources and formats was challenging, inconsistency and questionable data quality added to their problem. Learn how we helped them streamline their data acquisition.

The 100-year-old- co-op was confronted with more disruption during an eight-week period than it had experienced in eight years.

Artificial intelligence has been used widely to address a huge righty variety of business challenges and opportunities. Where it hasn’t been deployed all that often is in the area of sustainability and general corporate responsibility.

With consumer goods navigating a historic period of disruption, a recent snapshot survey takes the temperature of the reactions and responses from across the industry. We emailed with its creators for greater context around the numbers, including some actionable takeaways.  

The CG industry had already been evolving efforts to address new industry trends, and the onset of COVID-19 served as a sharp accelerant for many a company strategy. See where execs are currently focusing their efforts — and where they may need to dedicate more resources.