Business Intelligence (BI)

In her monthly column, Lora Cecere reveals what it is like to work with 'visionary executives in the consumer goods industry and identifies the characteristics that make them stand out.

Chief Executive Officer of AFS Technologies Joe Bellini, explains how consumer goods companies can measure the performance of trade promotions and correct course while in flight.

Teachers know all about cognitive overload: students presented with too much information are unable to process what theyre hearing and end up learning less rather than more. This is a lesson that consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies could absorb as they monitor the performance of their trade promotions.

Brand owners must understand what is being said about their own brands, as well as their competitors' products, in order to succeed. These insights can then be used to respond quickly to both positive and negative online activities, so strategies can be developed to shape consumer perception. Here, two seasoned experts divulge the market strategies that can help drive business growth.

The collection of connections created when people tweet about popular brands can be analyzed and visualized to create a kind of aerial photo of the crowd.

ToolsGroup announces that its Nordic partner Optilon has successfully taken The Absolut Company, part of the Pernod Ricard group of companies, live with ToolsGroups SO99+ Powerfully Simple supply chain planning software.

Consumer goods need to be represented consistently, in potentially thousands of different places online. A new GS1 US standard, developed in collaboration with 18 companies, including Best Buy, Bing, CNET, eBay, Google, and Walmart, offers a common approach for listing and classifying products across all e-commerce platforms.

Utz selects LeanLogistics LeanTMS for its transportation management and is focusing its efforts oneliminating manual transportation processes.