IT Integration

L'Oreal USA Gains Purchasing Power with Analytics
With new market advancements, L'Oreal's ecosystem of suppliers and vendors has grown exponentially. A new cloud analytics solution is expected help marketing and procurement gain immediate and broad access to global data to make faster and more insightful decisions.
CPG Companies: Capitalize on Leveraging ERP Data
Chobani, Reily Foods and other savvy CPG companies provide insight on leveraging ERP data.

Analytics and Insights

A new survey explores how CG companies are managing and using data. Last year, we found that analytics capabilities didn't match up with perceived importance, and unfortunately, the results this year are not much more optimistic.
Past Versus Present

More than any other time in history, consumer goods sales and marketing teams are leaning on intelligent systems to navigate change. CGT's Publisher, Albert Guffanti, asks Michael Shoemaker, director, Industry Market Development -- Distribution & Consumer Goods for Microsoft, to explain why yesterday's technologies don't match up to modern day business and consumer needs.
2013 Customer Management Solutions

A comparison chart of solution providers to the consumer goods industry in areas including CRM, TPM, TPO, SFA, etc. Plus, industry experts address customer- and consumer-facing trends and challenges.
Conair Tames Big Data

Together, Conair's Marketing and IT teams wrote a business case that would essentially transform the company's "big data" problem into actionable insights.
Dairy Crest Delivers on Growing E-Commerce Demands

As its customer base changed, the company needed a scalable infrastructure to support new milk&more e-commerce customers and respond to demand with marketing campaigns.
Land O'Lakes Improves Big Data Analytics

One of the company's subsidiaries is leveraging a solution to aggregate and analyze structured and unstructured data amassed from both public and private sources, while delivering targeting insights.
Gain Consumer Insights from an Information and Analytics Hub

Consumer industries must adjust to information management complexities and are moving toward an information and analytics hub approach.
What's Next after Data Sharing Programs?

As retailers have grown more open with sharing their operational data with suppliers, CG manufacturers have been empowered to deliver analysis and recommendations that have helped both sides of the partnership attain important goals.