Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

With roots 50-years deep, Murray Feiss Industries is an award-winning, lighting, occasional furniture and decorative accessory company that operates two divisions, each with a totally different business concept.

Consumer goods firms are only as sharp as the products they release.

Usually, discussion and analysis of a particular subject is a matter of bringing in a number of viewpoints, weighing them and making a case for the most likely futures.

There is no doubt that 2004 proved to be a more than challenging year for consumer goods (CG) companies.

Last month, AMR Research humbly pointed out that its prediction in RFID spending for Wal-Mart's Top 100 suppliers was off its mark.

Supply chain execution software has re-entered the investment spotlight as supply chain partners face heightened pressures.

As the retail sector consolidates and the larger players grow stronger, a rising number of consumer goods (CG) firms, such as Adolph Coors Company and Molson Inc., Hershey Foods Corporation and Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. are executing merger or acquisition strategies.

Business Intelligence (BI) wasn't the hottest topic of conversation amongst IT types in 2004, and to be perfectly honest, it likely won't be the belle of the ball in 2005 either.