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Supply Chain & Merchandising

  • Reckitt Benckiser Reshapes Company Strategy

    ?The company intensifies its focus on Health & Hygiene and faster growing consumer markets to fuel another decade of market outperformance.

  • MillerCoors Buys Crispin, Strengthens Category Position

    Minneapolis-based Crispin grew approximately 200 percent in 2011, outpacing the overall cider categorys 26 percent growth during the same period.

  • Dole Continues to Develop Sourcing Strategy

    With network optimization as the goal, Transplace recommends strategic assignment of carriers to all of the lanes within the Doles North American freight network.

  • Charmer Sunbelt Makes the Most of WMS Investment

    To fully integrate SAPs WMS, the wine and spirits distributor needed to upgrade its warehouses to a real-time data collection system. Installing WLAN achieved vital savings in installation and labor costs.

  • Deckers Outdoor Grows Online Conversions

    Deckers recognized an immediate increase in customer engagement upon switching to Demandware, including a 14 percent increase in conversion on UGGAustralia.com in the first week.

  • Former Diageo Exec Joins Heinz as CPO

    The former Diageo head of global procurement, John Dickson, is to become chief procurement officer at H.J. Heinz.

  • 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.

  • 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?
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