Supply Chain & Merchandising

Anthony Bigornia, director, Global Consumer Products Industry Solutions and IBM Industry Academy Member, explains how consumer goods companies can leverage hyper-local external data for growth.

Walmart is making moves to test drone delivery. Find out what the mega retailer wants to deliver.

The TerraCycle business model was born from the idea that if you could find a way to make high-quality affordable consumer products from waste, you could create a business with two revenue streams. In other words,get paid to collect material, and get paid for the resulting product or recycled commodity you create from that material. With its business model in tact, but no ability to spend money on paid advertising, TerraCycle had to approach marketing in a unique way since the very early days. In this month's cover story, TerraCycle divulges its recipe for marketing success without a budget.

Many consumer goods companies have already invested in trade management technology, but often fail to close the loop with post-event analysis and, therefore, never have the opportunity to elevate the discussion to a strategic level with retail customers. Here's how.

To help executives stay informed about their opportunity and investment options, CGT invites leading solution providers to showcase new technologies that promise to support strategic business and IT initiatives within consumer goods organizations.

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Seafood company Gorton's announces a commitment to simplify ingredients for all of the brand's items by the end of 2017. Find out how else the list of ingredients will change.

Chocolate company Ferrero Australia announces it has selected StayinFront's mobile field cloud solutions to help support the field team.

Unilever East Africa has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Tatu City Limited for the acquisition of 70 acres of industrial land for future expansion of its manufacturing operations. Find out how this move is part of a stream of investment activities to drive growth in East Africa.