This fall, CGT had the privilege of honoring an elite group of consumer goods companies and executives for transformational business and technology initiatives that stand revolutionize their organizations and industry as a whole. Meet the 2015 winners and finalists.
Bryan Nella, director of Corporate Communications for GT Nexus, an Infor company, reveals the obstacles and pressures facing the consumer goods industry in the New Year and how to address them.
CGT honors Mondelez International for developing an end-to-end forecasting and store replenishment process using point of sale data, improving measured on shelf availability by 4 percent in four months.
Suresh P. Bharadwaj, senior director and product head -- TradeEdge, EdgeVerve, explains how to address the challenges to achieving profitable growth in new markets.
CGT honors Frito-Lay North America for deploying an advanced analytic trade optimization solution to reduce unprofitable trade promotion spend by up to 50 percent in major accounts, increasing employee productivity, revenue and profits.
The partnership is expected to open up Point of Sale (POS) demand sensing performance breakthroughs to a wide range of retailers, manufacturers and distributors that previously lacked access to near real-time POS data.