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  • Are you in for a First-Quarter, Trade Promotion Surprise?

    CPG is even more dependent upon trade spending than ever before.Trade promotion spending for a typical consumer brand can be 15 percent to 20 percent of sales revenue, depending upon the category. For some CPG manufacturers, the first-quarter is full of trade promotion surprises. Are you in for a surprise?

  • 10 Predictions for Brand-Oriented Manufacturers

    What will 2012 hold for Brand-Oriented Value Chain manufacturing supply chain organizations? How about intelligent innovation, Big Data dilemmas and social business, to name a few? Find out what other expectations IDC Manufacturing Insights has for consumer goods manufacturers in areas like supply chain, PLM, operations technology, IT, and more.

  • Network Services Company Synchronizes Product Data

    1SYNC and SpecPage will ensure that the suppliers critical data is automatically cleansed and rejected, if erroneous before reaching NETWORK and its members.

  • 2012 Readers' Choice: Demand Data Analytics

    The Top 10 providers of a point software solution or a software suite for the cleansing, analysis and integration of downstream demand data, including POS, syndicated, etc., for use by sales, marketing, supply chain operations and R&D.

  • Top 10 Manufacturing Supply Chain Predictions

    The past five years have brought dramatic change to the manufacturing supply chain more so, perhaps, than any other five-year period in recent memory. Find out the top 10 predictions IDC Manufacturing Insights has identified that will drive supply chain activity and IT investments for the year.

  • 2012 Readers' Choice: Consulting

    The Top 10 providers of strategic and tactical consulting services to the consumer goods industries.

  • 2012 Readers' Choice: Supply Chain Planning

    The Top 5 providers of a suite of software or point solution for Supply Chain Planning, including demand forecasting, distribution, inventory optimization, etc.

  • Private Label: Collaborate, Not Confront

    Can CPG manufacturers and retailers with private-label ranges collaborate in their efforts to attract the same consumer? Counterintuitive though that proposition may appear, the real question is can they afford not to?
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