IT Integration

Learn Best Practices for Material Data Acquisition to Reduce Business Risk
This white paper focuses on the increasing challenge of collecting supplier part data to ensure environmental compliance regulations. Improve the quality of your collected data, reduce business risk, and increase company efficiency and product excellence.
IBM Completes DemandTec Acquisition
The acquisition further extends IBMs Smarter Commerce initiative by adding cloud-based software to help companies drive profitability through measurable pricing, promotion, and assortment planning.

Readers' Choice Survey 2012

For the 12th year in a row, CGT handed the microphone over to our readers to identify their most valued technology solutions and service providers across 10 categories. Based on their uncensored opinions and real-world experiences, the results are honest indicators of how the industry is approaching technology adoption.
10 Predictions for Brand-Oriented Manufacturers

What will 2012 hold for Brand-Oriented Value Chain manufacturing supply chain organizations? How about intelligent innovation, Big Data dilemmas and social business, to name a few? Find out what other expectations IDC Manufacturing Insights has for consumer goods manufacturers in areas like supply chain, PLM, operations technology, IT, and more.
2012 Readers' Choice: Demand Data Analytics

The Top 10 providers of a point software solution or a software suite for the cleansing, analysis and integration of downstream demand data, including POS, syndicated, etc., for use by sales, marketing, supply chain operations and R&D.
2012 Readers' Choice: Outsourcing

The Top 10 providers of business outsourcing services to the consumer goods industry.
2012 Readers' Choice: Enterprise Resource Planning

The Top 5 providers of a complete suite of enterprise-wide ERP software, including Finance, HR, CRM, Supply Chain, PLM, etc.
Assessing the Business Value of a MEAP Solution

IDC Manufacturing Insights recently completed a study that assessed the business value of a mobile solution.
2012 Readers' Choice: Editors' Picks

This years Readers Choice survey spans 10 categories, but some companies do not fit snugly into any one group. In response, we created the Editors Pick section to recognize solutions and service providers that are making a difference in the consumer goods industry and should be dually noted.
Next Generation ERP

2011 has been a pivotal year for ERP software. A new generation of solutions has emerged. Michael Griffiths, Microsoft Business Solutions global retail & distribution product director, explains how these systems are putting powerful yet cost-effective capabilities into the grasp of CG companies.