Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Kenneth Cole Productions Inc., a designer of apparel, shoes and accessories, will implement SAP software.

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is now tagging 100 percent of its calculator products shipped to Wal-Mart with RFID tags based on the Gen 2 EPC specification.

There are no surprises here as yet again packaged applications giants SAP, Oracle and Microsoft secure top spots.

As Business Intelligence (BI) technology offerings become more robust, companies are lining up to implement these tools to make the right business decisions at the right time.

Tech vendors deemed the best by the readers of Consumer Goods Technology

The ability to synchronize supply to demand is a tough nut to crack which is why SAP took home top honors in this year’s supply chain planning category.

With RFID mandates, Sarbanes-Oxley
and supply chain challenges still burning bright for most consumer goods firms, the consulting arena in 2005 was in high demand.

The newly-formed Agentrics hopes to incite a higher degree of business harmony between retailers and suppliers