Business Intelligence (BI)

Both retailers and suppliers see the value of data sharing, but there is still a long way to go before benefits are realized. Proving there are exceptions to this rule, Kraft Foods, Delhaize America and Bozzuto's gathered to lend real-world context to the findings of the first annual Shared Data Study. Learn about their winning data sharing programs here.

By enabling accelerated product innovation and time-to-market, 3M aims to realize its strategic business objectives, augment production capacity, enhance global capabilities and rationalize costs.

Mergers and acquisitions have caused Foster's to have a mix of enterprise resource planning systems and different methods for defining and processing key business data, such as information on customers and products.

The deal expands IBM's initiatives to help organizations gain customer insight and transform marketing through technology.

The largest producer and distributor of sweetener products in North America deploys Virtustream Inc.'s xStream Cloud platform to optimize its entire infrastructure, which includes a multi-thousand seat SAP enterprise application system.

As shared services units specialize in performing repetitive transaction based tasks, consumer companies can leverage the service model to perform tasks that require high-end business and consulting skill sets that may not be widely available in the organization.

The solution will eventually scale across Hanesbrands' extended value chain, delivering cross-departmental sales insights and analytics to hundreds of business practitioners.

One of the first companies to recognize the potential of the supermarket channel for fresh-cut flowers, Sunshine Bouquet will tap Retail Solutions to transform retailer data into actionable insights.