Predictive Analytics

The word of mouth generation has transformed into the word of finger era. Spreading the word has never been so fast, so focused and truly viral with a matter of a finger click.

In our analysis of two decades worth of financial balance sheets and income statements, Supply Chain Insights found that all industry segments are facing slowing growth, struggling with pressures on margins, battling an increase in complexity and feeling a need to speed up cycles. Analytics offer a promise to help, but traditional analytics are not sufficient.

PepsiCo brand managers believe that analyzing data helps them in understanding consumer choices, at depths sufficient enough to get insight into the products they should likely retain, discard or even revalue.

Despite a steady growth of large modern retailers, traditional trade still represents a significant share of Unilever's retail sales in emerging markets. The key to growth is to empower the field force with intelligent market information.

Whether you like it or not, "Big Data" is here and quietly rewriting the rules. The benefits are so compelling that adoption by the CG industry is inevitable. CGT's Publisher Albert Guffanti turns to Robert Byrne, CEO, Terra Technology, for answers to the burning "Big Data" questions on every CG executive's mind.

Walmart President and CEO Mike Duke announces the company's next step on the path to achieving its goal of being supplied 100 percent by renewable energy.