Product Innovation

During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, many iconic Hershey's brands are featuring pink packaging.

Anthony Bigornia, vice president of Product Strategy, CAS, shares tips on how trade can be optimized to better serve both manufacturers and retailers, and gives a glimpse into how the digital world may affect promotions.

As is tradition, CGT and AMR Research present the latest research findings on technology and business process strategies in the consumer goods market. Find out how your peers responded to questions on spending, current use, planned implementation and perceived benefits of performance management, manufacturing operations, RFID, demand signal repositories, business process outsourcing, innovation and more.

As Jockey grows its products portfolio through innovation, it strives to stay current by continually updating its distribution management operations. This recently included the implementation of labor management and supply chain intelligence applications.

The companies plan to bring ice cream innovations inspired by Starbucks coffee and coffeehouse flavors to consumers.

The new services include direct marketing and permission-based e-mail marketing.

Are best practices really the best approach to achieving supply chain visibility? Richard Essigs of IBM provides tips on how best practices change over time and how you can apply lessons learned from the mistakes of others.

Cannondale is challenged to manage a highly-complex and volatile consumer demand picture. The company required a solution with global visibility on all plant inventory levels and supply schedules to better manage changes in product and customer demand.