Supply Chain Brief

Consumer Goods Food & Beverage Packaging Supply Chain Value Added Services Warehousing & Distribution ManagementWhat You Need to Know about Visibility, Packaging, Refrigeration and Transportation. Getting quality vegetables from source to shelf without compromising safety or quality can be a tough challenge. Especially as pressure to protect the safety of the national food supply mounts. Perishables by nature have a limited “freshness window.” As a result, the amount of waste in fresh food supply chains can be huge. Meanwhile, profit margins are razor thin. MORE >>

Dale Hagemeyer   and I are looking forward to sharing some new content and research on how digital technologies and digital business are changing the nature of  retail and consumer relationships in the consumer goods industry. Below is a summary of the content Dale and I will be delivering on Industry Sunday: How Digital Business Will Reshape Consumer Relationships in the Consumer Goods Industry  05 October, 2014 (10:45 AM – 11:30 AM)  Digital business creates new business designs by blurring the physical and digital worlds. MORE >>

'My colleague  Dale Hagemeyer  and I are pleased to announce the publication of Gartner’s  Hype Cycle for Consumer Goods, 2014. Our report  is intended for CIOs and IT professionals that advise and work closely with sales, marketing, and supply chain organizations in consumer goods companies around the world.  Dale Dale and I look forward to this report every year because it gives us a chance to step back and take stock of the technologies and forces that will impact the consumer goods industry for the next several years. MORE >>

Steven Steutermann ,  and I took time this fall to develop our 2015 predictions for the consumer goods industry. Together, we cover sales, marketing, and supply chain technology topics and trends important to CIOs,  IT and Supply Chain leaders in the global consumer goods industry. We believe consumer goods manufacturers will need to keep their eye on the development of digital business — the creation of new business designs from the blurring of the physical and digital worlds. 'As 2014 draws to a close, my Gartner  colleagues  Dale Hagemeyer. MORE >>

'In our Supply Chain Matters commentaries focused on the challenges that are currently impacting consumer goods industry supply chains, we have called attention to the damaging effects that certain investor activism efforts have inflicted through mandates to either dramatically reduce costs, shed underperforming brands or consolidate CPG companies. To clarify, an objective investor voice demanding excellence is and should be expected. Insuring shareholder return is always an important business outcome objective for supply chain initiatives and transformational activities. MORE >>