Supply Chain

This year's agenda honed in on interactive, discussion-type sessions with the launch of CGT University, for starters. Here are ten conference highlights that will strike a leadership chord.

Diageo, General Mills, Hain Celestial, Hormel Foods, Kellogg, PepsiCo, and WhiteWave Foods are participants in the AgWater Challenge, a collaborative initiative.

In a lot of ways, this is normal negotiation practice that has all of a sudden had a light thrown on it thanks to Brexit, according to one expert.

The goal is to overhaul its product portfolio by offering healthier food and beverage choices, reduce its environmental impact and empower people around the world.

Fruit of the Loom struggled with the management of multiple EDI platforms used across its businesses to support its retailer partners, so it enlisted a solution to help improve efficiency and responsiveness to retailers, 3PLs and the consumer.

Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the 2016 Consumer Goods Global Markets Exchange, a unique learning environment created to help inspire global growth strategies for consumer goods companies.

Most consumer goods companies have traditional R&D organizations that are driven by marketing and operations and completely focused on new product innovation. Yet, the word innovation has become more of a charter or strategic goal as companies strive to innovate in process areas across the business, even challenging fundamental business models. This months Straight Talk takes a look at how innovation can lead to success beyond product extensions and how new thinking can disrupt the status quo.

In a digital and omnichannel world, consumers have access to more information than ever before, and consumer goods companies have to keep up with content they need for all of their brands. That is why this month, CGT asks EnterWorks CEO Rick Chavie about creating consumable content through a robust product information management platform.