IT Integration

Planning accuracy is key to maintaining Dannon's leadership in the yogurt market. And armed with new insights, the company will now attempt to challenge Chobani for the No. 1 spot in the highly competitive, fast growing Greek yogurt market.

There is a paradigm shift happening today among CIOs in the consumer goods industry. The role is in a state of transition from just keeping the lights on to powering business opportunities. Here, Dr Pepper Snapple Groups CIO explains how he challenged the status quo to drive rapid continuous improvements across the business.

Chobani, Reily Foods and other savvy CPG companies provide insight on leveraging ERP data.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.