Business Intelligence (BI)

ClosetMaid Enhances Sales, Category Management
ClosetMaid implements a Software-as-a-Service solution from Vision Chain to provide on-demand analysis of promotions, new products, forecasting, stock management, distribution and more.
TPM Systems: Connect Corporate Planning to Event-Level Planning
Many companies today perform corporate planning (customer P&L planning) and Trade Promotion Management (TPM) event level planning in two different systems. The breakdown between these two systems can often result in TPM overspends and plan shortfalls.

7 Considerations for Choosing a TPM Solution

Gartner, Inc.'s Dale Hagemeyer outlined seven key considerations for selecting a TPM solution, including insights about current issues affecting this area of investment. Plus, Diageo shares its TPM selection process story, which ultimately resulted in improved customer relationships.
Trade Promotion Optimization

Michael Forhez, director of Business Solutions, Consumer Markets, TCS, sheds some light on how your company can ride out a tumultuous river of challenges to arrive at optimized trade promotions.
Petco Joins CPG Industry Information Sharing Model

Petco is collaborating with SymphonyIRI to share CPG market information that is expected to help both organizations obtain deeper level insights into the marketplace and with Petco shoppers.
ConAgra Mills Enters Analytics Venture

ConAgra Mills along with IBM and SignalDemand announce that ConAgra Mills is using IBM's Smarter Commerce-based solution and its predictive analytics capabilities to increase supply chain efficiency.
Herbalife Deploys Mobile Analytics

Executives at this leading nutrition company can now use an iPad App to evaluate sales and marketing performance.
How PepsiCo Boosted Profitability with TPM

Managing trade promotions efficiently and effectively can have a significant impact on the bottom line. Find out how PepsiCo integrates its Trade Funds, Trade Claims and Dispute Management to improve revenue, volume, profitability and more.
Oracle Buys RightNow for $1.5 Billion

Oracle is moving aggressively to offer customers a full range of Cloud Solutions including sales force automation, human resources, talent management, social networking, databases and Java as part of the Oracle Public Cloud.
Oracle Buys Endeca

The combination is expected to provide technology and applications for unstructured data management, business intelligence, and web commerce.

ClosetMaid Enhances Sales, Category Management

TPM Systems: Connect Corporate Planning to Event-Level Planning

7 Considerations for Choosing a TPM Solution

Trade Promotion Optimization

Petco Joins CPG Industry Information Sharing Model

ConAgra Mills Enters Analytics Venture

Herbalife Deploys Mobile Analytics

How PepsiCo Boosted Profitability with TPM

Oracle Buys RightNow for $1.5 Billion

Oracle Buys Endeca