Supply Chain & Merchandising

Molson Coors Canada is the first business unit in the company to design, develop and implement a massive five-year customer relationship management transformational program. Three key executives reveal how they standardized 70 percent of the company's sales processes in an extremely complex and highly-regulated market.

The investment will support new manufacturing facilities, increased research and development capabilities, expanded agricultural efforts and brand-building initiatives.

For theCG company, direct-to-consumer selling has become a necessity as the competition against retail store brands heats up. In effect, P&G and PFSweb are testing innovative e-commerce concepts to unlock growth for online sales of consumer products.

Newell Rubbermaid uses analytics from SAP to optimize procurement, reduce inventory and ensure compliance across the company.

A new IDC Insights survey reveals that improving product quality is the most important supply chain initiative in 2010. Find out what else manufacturers and retailers identified as their top initiatives and investments.

CGT Editor Alliston Ackerman gives you a sneak peek into the trends and topics discussed in this month's issue.

Sunny Delight Beverages Co.explains how it is leveraging TPM to improve customer profitability, using atool throughout the finance, product supply andlogistics functions.

This new DSD division will manage direct store delivery operations for the newly acquired frozen pizza brands and more.