Forecasting

CGT is proud to present the most recent crop of consumer goods "Visionaries" -- those industry thought leaders who are shaping the future of their respective companies through leadership, drive, and unprecedented business and technology initiatives even as the economy suffers.

The company uses a solution from RedPrairie to help decrease waste and maintain quality.

Fetco Home Dcor, designer and wholesaler of fashion frames, albums and wall decor products, implements a solution to increase its forecasting efficiency.

A new software implementation is expected to enable P&G to use POS data to facilitate end-to-end planning and further improve forecast accuracy.

The company adopts a solution with a forecasting engine, an inventory planner and replenishment ordering logic.

Leading consumer goods companies, like General Mills, Del Monte and H.J. Heinz, attained new measures of success with innovation, supply chain and sales & marketing initiatives in 2008. Here is a look back at the most read case studies published by CGT last year.

The implementation, together with existing tools and processes, is expected to help Del Monte predict demand better at its customers' locations.

P&G embarked on a global IT transformation, HP acquired EDS, Unilever mastered data management and InBev bought Anheuser-Busch. Here's a look back at the Top 10 consumer goods market-altering news stories published by CGT in 2008.