Supply Chain & Merchandising

With a strong PLM foundation, adidas is able to ensure product availability in the correct size, color and high quality as well as provide game-changing technical innovation.

TerraCycle's upcycling and recycling programs have spread like wildfire throughout the consumer goods industry and it continues to find solutions for more and more "nonrecycleable" waste streams -- think dirty diapers, shoes, cigarette butts and cosmetics. Here's the inside scoop on how the "Coolest Little Startup in America" has reached global proportions.

A changing and challenging consumer goods landscape is driving Accenture's focus on software to supplement its industry offerings and to better serve consumer packaged goods (CPG) clients. Here, Senior Executive Jim Coleman explains how the company's recent acquisition of CAS builds on that intent.

The products designed at Kimberly-Clark may be feather-light, but they're as demanding to develop as any bike frame or truck chassis. These products often depend on accurate, comprehensive simulation to ensure optimum performance.

Smithfield Foods selects the CombineNet ASAP product to support sourcing activities across multiple areas of its spend.

200 executives from the world's leading retailers, manufacturers, academics, third-party providers and industry organizations gathered to define the strategic objectives on which the industry should focus its energies. Top objectives emerged, including optimizing a shared supply chain.