With new market advancements, L'Oreal's ecosystem of suppliers and vendors has grown exponentially. A new cloud analytics solution is expected help marketing and procurement gain immediate and broad access to global data to make faster and more insightful decisions.
A new survey explores how CG companies are managing and using data. Last year, we found that analytics capabilities didn't match up with perceived importance, and unfortunately, the results this year are not much more optimistic.
One of the company's subsidiaries is leveraging a solution to aggregate and analyze structured and unstructured data amassed from both public and private sources, while delivering targeting insights.
There is a renewal of interest in the financial elements of supply chain management today. Businesses are using agile, cloud-based technology to optimize working capital and glean liquidity from improvements in supply chain activities.
As retailers have grown more open with sharing their operational data with suppliers, CG manufacturers have been empowered to deliver analysis and recommendations that have helped both sides of the partnership attain important goals.
Nutrisystem logged revenue declines, from $509.5 million in 2010 to $401.4 million in 2011, due to lower than average sales prices and fewer customer starts. The new retail push is expected to reach new customers.
