Business Intelligence (BI)

The acquisition further extends IBMs Smarter Commerce initiative by adding cloud-based software to help companies drive profitability through measurable pricing, promotion, and assortment planning.

The General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network shares key insights of its X3 Process, a new approach developed to provide a step-by-step roadmap for the company's open innovation projects. Why share? General Mills anticipates others will find success using the non-linear approach to guide innovation efforts as well.

To fully integrate SAPs WMS, the wine and spirits distributor needed to upgrade its warehouses to a real-time data collection system. Installing WLAN achieved vital savings in installation and labor costs.

CPG is even more dependent upon trade spending than ever before.Trade promotion spending for a typical consumer brand can be 15 percent to 20 percent of sales revenue, depending upon the category. For some CPG manufacturers, the first-quarter is full of trade promotion surprises. Are you in for a surprise?

1SYNC and SpecPage will ensure that the suppliers critical data is automatically cleansed and rejected, if erroneous before reaching NETWORK and its members.

The Top 10 providers of a suite of software or point solution for Supply Chain Execution, including warehouse management, transportation management, shipping management, load optimization, etc.

This years Readers Choice survey spans 10 categories, but some companies do not fit snugly into any one group. In response, we created the Editors Pick section to recognize solutions and service providers that are making a difference in the consumer goods industry and should be dually noted.