Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

How consumer goods firms can align business processes to improve the product lifecycle

Kenneth Cole Productions Inc., a designer of apparel, shoes and accessories, implements SAP solutions, including SAP for Retail, SAP Apparel and Footwear (AFS), and SAP Triversity point-of-sale (POS) solutions.

Kenneth Cole Productions Inc., a designer of apparel, shoes and accessories, will implement SAP software.

The newly-formed Agentrics hopes to incite a higher degree of business harmony between retailers and suppliers

Tech vendors deemed the best by the readers of Consumer Goods Technology

There are no surprises here as yet again packaged applications giants SAP, Oracle and Microsoft secure top spots.

While Oracle's pursuit of Siebel Systems took center stage in 2005, analysts expect to see increased use of partner networks and third-party maintenance providers heading into 2006.

While this year’s Top 10 TPM providers are the key leaders of the industry, it is critical to examine the direction of many of these vendors as they look beyond automation to optimization.