Business Automation

Commercial teams -- sales and marketing -- often avoid active participation in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes. The belief is that it is not value-added work. Ironically, the biggest benefit is an increase in sales: the metric that is always top of mind for the sales team.

Move beyond backward looking reporting and embrace forward-facing, activity-based analytics.

The technology helps to allow for productive collaboration enterprise-wide, whether between internal departments or with international vendors.

Jamba teams with Capgemini as part of its effort to achieve 10 percent to 20 percent G&A reduction goal and drive accelerated growth.

Procter & Gamble has identified a global best practice for case picking and truck loading,driving down freight costs, increasing labor productivity by 15+ percent, and reducing material handling and in-transit damage.

Dean realizes benefits including increased collaboration among the company's IT and Internal Audit departments, and cutting technology licensing and third-party audit costs by 50 percent.

Big data combined with current analytical capabilities puts us in control of backhoes relative to the shovels we dug with not long ago. The power we could and should have through these tools is great, but in many cases we fail to grasp the tools that are readily available to us.

There is a paradigm shift happening today among CIOs in the consumer goods industry. The role is in a state of transition from just keeping the lights on to powering business opportunities. Here, Dr Pepper Snapple Groups CIO explains how he challenged the status quo to drive rapid continuous improvements across the business.