Supply Chain & Merchandising

A forward-thinking, business-savvy Chief Information Officer is critical to the competitive consumer goods company, particularly over the last few years as new technologies have changed the game. To honor the modern IT leader, CGT introduced its very first CIO of the Year Award in 2013. Read on to meet the finalists and winner.

Year after year, CGT recognizes a elite few consumer goods companies for unmatched, transformational business and technology initiatives in the areas of supply chain, customer management and mid-market growth. Get to know the 2013 winners here.

The agreement does not include Campbells recently-acquired Kelsen Group, which will continue its operations in Denmark and the export of its products to countries in Europe and throughout the world.

To succeed in creating effective predictive analytics models that generate actionable findings, consumer goods organizations need to develop a strategy that ties the technology to business operations in a more pervasive and comprehensive approach throughout the enterprise. Here, experts from Accenture and SAP reveal how to get closer to the customer through effective predictive analytics.

Nestl is continuing to boost growth in Europe by opening a new CHF 73 million (about 2.6 billion roubles) Maggi factory in Russia.

The new CFO was most recently Vice President Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at Molson Coors Brewing Company.

Terra Technologys Demand Sensing and Transportation Forecasting solutions help Mondelez decrease forecast error by almost 40 percent and gain supply chain efficiency in North America.

Executives from Kraft Foods and Safeway divulge ROI details from their collaborative data sharing initiatives, and add real-world context to findings of the 2013 Retail / Supplier Shared Data Study. Whether you have been working with downstream data for a while or are new to the effort, this discussion provides valuable insights.