Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

The next five to seven years will a see slow but steady wave of technology refresh penetrate the DSD market. Early adopters such as PepsiCo, Anheuser-Busch, and Nestl will lead the charge. VDC Research offers tips for DSD operators who must evaluate opportunities for mobile solutions to enhance existing processes or risk being left behind.

After an initial success with a few hundred stations in 2011, Costa Express hatched ambitious plans to grow to 3,000 locations in less than five years and expand into new countries.

The company selects ShopperTrak to provide retail traffic counting and analytics in locations worldwide.

Lilly Pulitzer is expected to improve the shopping experience for its customers across channels and create a single view of customer transactions and inventory, with a solution from Manhattan Associates.

While maximizing ROI remains the most sought-after number for business leaders, Chief Information Officers (CIO), especially in the consumer goods industry, are experiencing an interesting paradigm shift.

L'Oreal Uruguay needed to modernize its IT environment to provide a secure and cloud-ready infrastructure that would be capable of meeting the company's business growth strategy.

At the end of the day, manufacturing a consumer product comes down to selling, servicing and delivering.What product? How many units? Shipped by when? Which customers? On which terms? These are the kinds of questions that producers of consumer goods are generally expected to address on a more or less real-time basis.

Crocs implements PLM software from Centric to help speed development, and gain visibility earlier in the product development cycle to make better decisions.