Business Intelligence (BI)

ConAgras Senior Director of Continuous Improvement candidly reveals details behind the strategy and deployment of a large-scale Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) roll out. Today, OEE serves the company as a central business performance metric to help evaluate opportunities in sourcing, supply planning optimization and distribution network improvements as well as in capital equipment and product innovation initiatives.

Faced with increasing commodity price volatility, channel complexity and the persistence of sizable trade budgets, many consumer packaged goods companies are looking to fundamentally change or upgrade their trade promotion management (TPM) capabilities.

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

The acquisition is expected to establish SAP as a leading business network, adding cloud-based, business-to-business collaboration to its existing solutions.

The global brewer will expand its implementation of transportation and logistics management solutions based on successful roll outs in key regions.

Recently, a CPG social forum asked the question Is Big Data the most dominant theme this year in our industry?If you look at the amount of coverage Big Data is getting, it well may be. However, when browsing through the literature on the topic, I realized that people may be forgetting about the most obvious Big Data opportunity.

Pacific Natural Foods makes gross margin gains with aggressive trade spend strategy.