Demand Forecasting

There's no doubt that quickly and accurately unlocking insights from retailer data can yield enormous benefits for consumer goods firms. Here, the manufacturer of stationary products, lighters and shavers, explains how it had put an enterprise DSR to good use.

Therecession changed the supply chain game tremendously. Lambert sheds some lighton how CG firms can adopt the biggest supply chains trends today.

Both retailers and suppliers see the value of data sharing, but there is still a long way to go before benefits are realized. Proving there are exceptions to this rule, Kraft Foods, Delhaize America and Bozzuto's gathered to lend real-world context to the findings of the first annual Shared Data Study. Learn about their winning data sharing programs here.

Doug Sloan, director of Supply Chain Operations for Unilever North America, reveals details of the company's journey to boost its demand sensing and inventory optimization capabilities globally.

The solution will eventually scale across Hanesbrands' extended value chain, delivering cross-departmental sales insights and analytics to hundreds of business practitioners.

Unilever anticipates decreasing safety stock up to 15 percent following the worldwide implementation.

Leveraging retailer downstream data both for visibility purposes but also to drive systematic improvements is a core strategy for Burt's Bees.

Now is the time to transform the disconnected operational forecasting and financial budgeting exercise into a single, near real-time integrated, business planning process. The resultant operational and financial excellence is a requirement for growth in the 21st century.