Manufacturer

Improving the bottom line involves more than just deploying the latest technology.

Today's CG supply chain is akin to the spilt personality of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Three years ago the Scotts Company was turning inventory twice a year, which may not sound like much to a company that does 50 turns a year like Dell.

The good news is that Gary Andrews, director of manufacturing and engineering at Campbell Soup Company, recently discovered the potential ROI of an integrated business analytics program.

Anybody in the technology food chain can tell you that ASP is a handy acronym for application service provider.

When the Kellogg Company brought in a new management team at the end of 2000, one of its first questions was "where is the sales force?"

Gaining increased attention among CG companies in the current economic climate is product lifecycle management (PLM) technology that reduces the time and cost it takes to bring a product to market.

To get a sense of just how much the supply-chain planning market has changed during the past year, you only have to look at the top of the 2003 Best of Breed rankings.

Continuing a trend THAT started last year, the results of this year's CGT Best of Breed survey on the customer relationship management (CRM) market once again shows that consumer goods firms are far from unanimous in their choice of the top provider.

While these companies didn't make the best-of-breed lists in their respective categories, they certainly deserve a look as you put together your RFPs for the coming year.