Supply Chain & Merchandising

Paramount Farms revamps its legacy system with RFID at the core

As a New Jersey native, it's been tough to handle the endless barrage of jokes about big hair, shopping malls and the bizarre odors that perpetually cling to the Turnpike like a bad case of head lice.

Companies accept contract compliance breakdowns as a fact of life and have done so for years.

Sundance Catalog streamlines its product development

With a higher degree of mandates from retailers, corporate legislation like Sarbanes-Oxley and a crowded product marketplace, it would appear that the consumer goods landscape is an unforgiving atmosphere full of revenue roadblocks.

It is common practice for manufacturers and distributors to have access to mountains of promotional and point-of-sale data, but few companies look outside of the box and assume an active role in developing and reshaping technology tools to better fit the information needs of their unique business.

Cheez-It Gets a New Twist

Pavlov famously used dogs to illustrate his theory of operant conditioning, associating a ringing bell with a tasty treat so that his pooches eventually started drooling at the sound of a bell, even without a treat as a payoff.