Supply Chain

CGT announced the winners of its annual Business & Technology Leadership Awards during an awards ceremony at the 2015 Consumer Goods Business & Technology Leadership Conference. The awards recognize consumer goods companies for transformational business and technology initiatives in the areas of supply chain, customer management and mid-market growth.

Demographic trends such as an increase in multicultural families and smaller households are influencing how America bakes.

Fin out how the Food and Agriculture Organization and Mars are joining forces to strengthen food safety.

Walmart told investors total net sales growth will be relatively flat for fiscal year 2016, in part to its investments in new technologies, including e-commerce and digital capabilities. Find out what cutting-edge digital and supply chain improvements Walmart is making.

Birchbox has added its first in-house makeup, expanding into product development with the launch of LOC (Love of Color). Find out what the company plans for its private label line.

Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed to buy its main rival SABMiller for $104 billion, creating a super brewery with sales of $55 billion. Find out the details of this potential mega-deal, which, if completed, would be among the top five acquisitions of all time.

A recent Gartner survey found that 43 percent of supply chain professionals are strongly committed to a single underlying technology platform that streamlines internal processes and removes the complexities involved with integrating multiple, disparate systems. Here's how ERP enables that vision. Learn more in this white paper.

Digital transformation is hard work. CPG companies must re-imagine the consumer experience, aligning their people, processes and technologies behind the scenes to deliver this experience. The following are three critical steps to take towards digital transformation.