Technology

Recalls can be dangerous for the consumer, but they are also downright detrimental to the consumer goods companies involved as consumers abandon a recalled brand for another in the interim, or worse, for life. CGT asks analysts from AMR Research, Hitachi Consulting and IBM to identify the primary causes of product recalls and how your company can monitor external production operations to thwart those causes.

Perry Ellis executive provides CGT Executive Editor Kara Romanow with tips on how to combine great products with the great analytical planning processes and technologies to compete effectively in the fast-turning apparel market.

Contributing author Simon Ellis, practice director, supply chain strategies for Manufacturing Insights, an IDC company, provides step by step instructions on how supply chain professionals can better sense and respond to massive amounts of data rather than become victim to it.

CGT Publisher Lori Castle gives you a sneak peek into the trends and topics discussed in this month's issue.

Throughout the school year, teachers and students will collect empty glue bottles and glue sticks nationwide for the Elmer's Glue Crew recycling program.

IBM joins the Oracle Accelerate program and delivers industry solutions to midsize companies.

Frito-Lay answers the number one consumer request by creating Pinch of Salt, a line of snack chips with 30 percent to 50 percent less sodium.

ChartSearch announces its "Insight Productivity" initiative, using a new search engine paradigm for charting and analysis of statistical and numerical data.