Supply Chain

Thirty-One Gifts Taps Retail Planning Solution
TXT will manage the whole spectrum of Thirty-Ones forecasting, merchandise, assortment and inventory management.
Walmart CEO Says Near-Term Execution is Critical
Earlier this week,Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. President and CEO Mike Duke assuredinvestors Walmart will win no matter what environment it's in. "When you go to our stores, you're going to see fantastic new merchandise, aggressive investments in price through lots of rollbacks and better in-stock levels. We're focusing on execution to deliver results." Here's a review of progress that's been made and Walmart's plans for the future.

Winning the Digital Consumers Trust

If consumers dont trust how your product is represented digitally, they are not purchasing it. Adhering to GS1 standards and investing in proper distribution of your product data can help close the loop with the new wave of retail consumers.
Lessons in Brand Advocacy and Social Growth from T-Mobile

With consumers switching brands more often than ever before, the rules of customer engagement have changed for marketing, sales and customer service across all industries. As a consequence, driving brand advocacy has become the No. 1 priority. T-Mobile gets it. Using a three-step approach, the company touts 4.9 million social fans and the fastest response time across all industries on Facebook, 55 minutes to be exact.
TABS Forms Dedicated Walmart Analytics Team

The insights gained are expected to benefit Walmart and consumer products manufacturers and further contributes to the firm's mission to simplify and improve the way analytics is conducted within the industry.
Ben & Jerry's: Quality From Cow to Cone

To ensure consistent product quality for every pint of super-premium ice cream produced, Ben & Jerry's needed a new way to collect and analyze the vital data of its products.
Digital Collaboration

Today's digital channels have and will continue to fundamentally transform the consumer experience, creating a new class of more informed and more demanding shoppers. As a result, we are also now seeing a blurring of the traditional lines between trading partners, where the "war for the consumer" may actually be yielding to a truer form of collaboration than we've ever seen.
Enterprises of All Sizes Embrace S&OP

CGT and Logility analyze the drivers, technology and adoption associated with this critical process over a two year period and discover enterprises of all sizes have embraced S&OP.
Marketing Game

The new Pepsi MAX ad features Barry Sanders, legendary pro football hall of famer.
Retail Omnichannel

Jon Golovin, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Retail Solutions Inc., explains the role that consumer packaged goods suppliers play in helping omnichannel retail customers true achieve fulfillment intelligence.