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Are you in for a First-Quarter, Trade Promotion Surprise?
CPG is even more dependent upon trade spending than ever before.Trade promotion spending for a typical consumer brand can be 15 percent to 20 percent of sales revenue, depending upon the category. For some CPG manufacturers, the first-quarter is full of trade promotion surprises. Are you in for a surprise? -
10 Predictions for Brand-Oriented Manufacturers
What will 2012 hold for Brand-Oriented Value Chain manufacturing supply chain organizations? How about intelligent innovation, Big Data dilemmas and social business, to name a few? Find out what other expectations IDC Manufacturing Insights has for consumer goods manufacturers in areas like supply chain, PLM, operations technology, IT, and more.