Fall 2014 New Tech Showcase

CGT Staff

11/17/2014

Gladson myBrands

Gladson • Launch: August 2013 (new features added in October 2014)

Filling a Need: Gladson myBrands offers consumer goods (CG) manufacturers a comprehensive digital product content solution to meet the increased demand for product images and information across
channels and within their enterprise.

Features: Gladson myBrands includes the creation, hosting, and
distribution of manufacturers’ digital product content to satisfy all corporate, customer and partner needs. With Gladson myBrands, CG manufacturers can accelerate their brand’s digital presence while meeting the content needs of retail partners and internal constituents. As the most comprehensive digital product content solution available today, Gladson myBrands offers CG manufacturers significant cost-savings and efficiencies when compared to partnering with multiple product content providers.

Key Users: Executives within Sales and Marketing departments are often the primary buyers and users of Gladson myBrands with executives across IT, Supply Chain, R&D, Market Research and other departments also leveraging the solution to power their systems and processes.

Benefits: By having a complete digital representation of their
products, Gladson myBrands customers can increase internal efficiency, promote brand consistency and accuracy of product information across channels, satisfy retailers and shoppers with compelling and comprehensive product content, and accelerate sales.

Please contact Gladson at (630) 435-2200 to schedule a demo.

NetBench

Ironbridge Software • Launch: November 2014

Filling a Need: NetBench provides the ability to visualize data through a consumer packaged goods (CPG)-focused Business Intelligence solution. NetBench eliminates programming, allowing teams to focus on insights, not data management. Get freedom from limitations.

Features: Analytics, data visualization, data blending and forecasting all merged into one modern solution. Built with users in mind, NetBench is a simple-to-use solution. Convenient web access quickly puts the data into colleague’s hands, allowing for faster decision making. Expose
insights with a stunning visual appeal.

Transforms data into stunning visuals and animations
Thought Power© is built-in intelligence with predictive computing including forecasting and trending
Real-time answers
Quickly export an entire dashboard or report and share stunning PDFs of your data
A mobile App lets you see insights from any place at any time, giving an edge over the competition
Easy drag-and-drop features for editing data

KEY Users: Sales & Marketing, Category Management, Finance, Business Insights

Benefits: Expose hidden insights within data; increase productivity; drive consumer sales; grow market share and revenue gains.

Demand Signal Management

Manthan • Launch: November 2014

Filling a Need: Manthan’s DSM helps CPG companies drive growth by using cross-organizational insights and analytics to overcome the complexities of big data, shopper control and competition.

Features: Making sense of multiple data streams is no longer an issue with Manthan DSM. This cloud-based solution enables CPG companies to access a ‘single source of the truth’ across various data silos, including POS, market research, inventory, and social media. DSM can be up and running in less than 12 weeks, offering CPG companies tremendous speed-to-value. Featuring a foundational layer to support data acquisition, cleansing, homogenization, harmonization and enrichment, DSM provides users across the organization with accurate and comprehensive insights regarding business operations and the shopper journey. With accessible analytics capabilities across brand, shopper, category, pricing, promotion, inventory and product launch, users are empowered to focus on what really matters: the shopper.

Key Users: DSM delivers data management and insights across sales, marketing, supply chain, brand, IT and finance departments.

Benefits: By making sense of big data and delivering data-driven insights, DSM enables CPG companies to drive increased revenues and profits. With DSM, business users can COLLABORATE with retail partners, STREAMLINE supply chain execution, and ultimately, OPTIMIZE the shopper journey.

NeoGrid S&OP for Advanced S&OP

NeoGrid • Launch: June 2, 2014

Filling a Need: S&OP collaboration requires instant access to a single version of the truth between departments and externally — with views and what-if modeling specific to individual needs.

Features: Welcome to the next generation of integrated supply chain solutions for leaders — a single, easy-to-use-and-deploy, cloud-based S&OP solution creating value for your business. NeoGrid S&OP sets you ages apart from traditional S&OP by enabling you to improve forecast accuracy with:

Top-down and bottom-up consensus planning
Integrated long and short-term planning
“What if” scenario planning
Virtual item planning
Workflow-driven system
Easy-to-use / user-friendly dashboard
Comprehensive management reporting
Demand-driven actions based on orders/POS/channel data

KEY Users: Sales, Marketing, Finance and Demand Planning

Benefits: Discover a better way of doing S&OP:

Overcome historical issues, and see what S&OP should be
Improve forecast accuracy through demand-driven S&OP
Spend less time in spreadsheets, less time on managing the S&OP process and more time where it counts: collaborating to deliver optimized results

ShilohLIVE 2.0

SPI – Shiloh Technologies • Launch: November 15, 2014

Filling a Need: SPI’s ShilohLIVE2.0 was developed for the user to quickly harness big data and discover the truth about their business in a comfortable environment and share insights to prescribe change.

Features:

Expanded mobile capabilities for smart phones and tablets; touchscreen friendly
More robust LIVE report builder empowers you to quickly respond and prescribe change, and share your insights in multiple formats such as Excel and PDF
New customizable interface will increase adoption and utilization for less effort to discover actions and make decisions
Flexible dashboard tool with enhanced visualizations for you to see the truth in your business at a glance

Key Users: ShilohLIVE 2.0 can be used across your entire enterprise, for all teams: Supply Chain, Category Management, Sales & Marketing, Merchandising, Corporate, IT Managers and more.

Benefits: Companies that use ShilohLIVE 2.0 can:

Identify actionable insights, benefiting both suppliers and retailers.
Increase efficiency. SPI maintains the system and data loading for you, including third-party data, saving time so you can focus on driving your business. The solution loads and processes all major retailer data.
Improve forecasting, measure and improve promos, get the right products in the right locations in the optimum quantity, identify phantom inventory, increase on shelf availability, react faster with daily data feeds received daily, increase supply chain efficiency and more.

Promax Advanced

Wipro Promax Analytics Solutions (WPAS) • Launch: December 2014

Filling a Need: Core trade promotion management capabilities enabling planning, tracking and managing promotions and trade spend through a new and intuitive user interface.

Features: Promax is a functionally rich TPM/TPO solution and now offers an even more dynamic and intuitive user experience on any platform. The solution is available on premise or a SaaS model and offers a range of modules with a high degree of end user personalization and configuration options. Promax Advanced offers a quantum leap in TPM, enabling you to plan your business budgets and strategies, track spend and predict volumes and uplift models. WPAS also now offers an extensive range of solutions and services to meet all your TPM/TPO and BI/Advanced Analytics requirements.

Users: C-Level Executives, Sales Directors, KAMs, Category Managers, Trade Marketing, Finance Teams, Supply Chain

Benefits: Promax Advanced offers a fully integrated end-to-end TPM solution. The advanced, highly intelligent TPM concepts maximize customer’s trade spend ROI. Benefits are derived from improved forecast accuracy, best practise business and financial process efficiencies in budgeting, account planning, promotion performance accountability, and a unified set of financial measures from a single data source. The functional richness of Promax combined with its configuration-driven flexibility enables the delivery of rapid, highly maintainable and cost effective solutions tailored to the varied needs of customers.