IT Integration

The team has been built around recent strategic acquisitions; notably, Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company), Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, PRTM, Logan Tod & Co., Ant's Eye View, BGT Partners, Intuity, and Stamford Interactive.

Shell is a longstanding SAP customer and this latest agreement extends the relationship between the two giants through the end of the decade.

BT will orchestrate a wide range of IT services across 70 De Beers Group sites, including exploration and mining locations across the world.

The first half of 2014 flew by, yet so much has changed. CGT stops time for a moment to recap the most-read news and trend stories on consumergoods.com from January through June. What does this short list tell us? Consumer trends, industry predictions and big data, of course, are the top-of-mind topics among our readers. And, it seems as though everyone is trying to figure out the next big thing.

The newly created leadership position will oversee functions ranging from research & development and manufacturing to sales and strategy.

Historically theres been great difficulty and importance in obtaining high quality data to fuel global trade management systems. The paper also explores the advent of the cloud data network and some of the powerful advantages of this approach, including those provided by network effects the exponential power of a collaborative network of partners to solve supply chain problems.

Everything around you is in a constant state of change. Technology has catapulted the way retailers and suppliers provide products to the consumer, requiring them to look at their businesses differently almost on an hourly basis. Britt Fogg, CEO, president and founder of Shiloh Technologies, a division of SPI, gave us his insights around the speed of change in the retailer/supplier industry.

Brand new research from CGT and IDC Manufacturing Insights examines the substantial progress that consumer goods companies are making in the areas of trade promotion management, downstream data, consumer engagement and S&OP.