Once again this year, consumer goods companies are faced with a bevy of strategically critical challenges: from commodity pricing and supply management risks, cost containment, global product portfolios, mergers and acquisitions, reformulating products to deal with issues like food safety and sustainability pressures to transforming traditional supply chains into demand-driven value networks that connect manufacturers, retailers and consumers in joint value creation activities. With existing margins and complexity, it is a significantly difficult period for the leadership team and governance processes in any consumer goods company, hence the turnovers in leadership team ranks.
Change leadership, strategic thinking and planning, prioritization and governance are as important as ever. .
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The 10th annual Consumer Goods Technology Tech Trends Study shows an unrelenting push for operational excellence and a commitment to continued investment in technology to improve business processes. Balancing customer demands with the realities of increasingly complex supply chains and increased costs has forced the industry to get closer to customer and consumer insights to more proactively meet demand. This study will touch upon the critical business processes and enabling technologies that are helping to meet those needs, including supply chain, customer management, new product development, performance management and the retail perspective.
\nWhat makes this study so valuable is the analysis that our partner AMR Research provides. Until April when I joined CGT, I was part of the team at AMR Research that provided the industry perspective and wrote the commentary, and it has given me great pleasure to once again work with the talented analysts at AMR to bring these insights to the marketplace.
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Consumer Goods Technology's 2005 Tech Trends study analyzes what's hot and what's not in RFID, data synchronization, customer management, and outsourcing.
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As part of an ongoing yearly research initiative, Consumer Goods Technology and AMR Research conducted a study to gather detailed feedback regarding enterprise IT spending focused on the consumer products industry within the United States.
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.
Tenth annual Consumer Goods Technology Tech Trends Study shows an unrelenting push for operational excellence and a commitment to continued investment in technology to improve business processes.
Consumer Goods Technology and AMR Research conducted a study to gather detailed feedback regarding enterprise IT spending focused on the consumer products industry within the United States.