Manufacturing

Recently, a CPG social forum asked the question Is Big Data the most dominant theme this year in our industry?If you look at the amount of coverage Big Data is getting, it well may be. However, when browsing through the literature on the topic, I realized that people may be forgetting about the most obvious Big Data opportunity.

Marketing, pricing and trade promotion activities are critical to the success of consumer products companies. The stakes are high as companies spend billions of dollars trying to grow their business. Those who can better understand, plan and predict are winning, those who cant move toward extinction.