Forecasting

Three years ago, Del Monte Foods deployed demand signal repository software to enhance its demand-driven supply chain management decisions across leading retailers. CGT spoke with Dom Clemente, director of demand planning, and Andy Wojewodka, director, IT business consulting, to discern how the company is currently leveraging data from both a sales and supply chain perspective.

As soon as a prediction of a cold Arctic air mass and snow hits the news, the buying begins. Read on to find out how Campbell Soup Company arms itself with the knowledge to prepare for whatever Mother Nature has in store.

Pilgrim's Pride shuts down several chicken facilities as part of a planto curtail losses amid record-high costs for corn, soybean meal andother feed ingredients and an oversupply of chicken in the UnitedStates.

With nearly 200 salespeople spread across the United States who service regional industrial accounts such as Home Depot and Lowes, The Bosch Group identified an opportunity to increase the productivity of its salesforce by having a quicker and more flexible reporting tool.

Contributing author Simon Ellis, practice director, supply chain strategies for Manufacturing Insights, an IDC company, provides step by step instructions on how supply chain professionals can better sense and respond to massive amounts of data rather than become victim to it.

CGT picks the top 10 Supply Chain Planning companies as well as a list of breakout winners.

When Tyson Foods purchased IBP Fresh meats in 2001, the Springdale, Ark.-based outfit officially became the largest meat processing company in the world, servicing retail, wholesale and food service customers in the United States and 80 countries overseas.

Customers of Philips Electronics set high, encompassing standards for delivery performance.