Manufacturing

Despite a steady growth of large modern retailers, traditional trade still represents a significant share of Unilever's retail sales in emerging markets. The key to growth is to empower the field force with intelligent market information.

In our analysis of two decades worth of financial balance sheets and income statements, Supply Chain Insights found that all industry segments are facing slowing growth, struggling with pressures on margins, battling an increase in complexity and feeling a need to speed up cycles. Analytics offer a promise to help, but traditional analytics are not sufficient.

CGT invited leading technology providers to showcase new solutions that promise to reinvigorate strategic IT initiatives in your supply chain, sales and marketing or innovation organizations.

CGT and SAP surveyed the consumer goods executives to understand the underlying infrastructure needed to move demand signal data initiatives forward.

Two years ago, K'NEX started the construction of an internal intranet that would control the majority of product-related data across all departments. Find out what the K.I.I.D. system looks like today.

PepsiCo brand managers believe that analyzing data helps them in understanding consumer choices, at depths sufficient enough to get insight into the products they should likely retain, discard or even revalue.

Three leading consultant organizations showcase new services that address mission-critical business needs of consumer goods companies.