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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Nulogy, for example, is a platform for collaboration between consumer goods brands and their copacker and comanufacturing partners. Chris Castle, the vice president of product management at Nulogy, said that collaboration in the consumer goods industry was more even handed than in industries like automotive.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Clarkston Consulting is focused on the Consumer Goods and Life Sciences industries. They assist their clients through the implementation process, incorporating their knowledge into the process as a trusted advisor to their clients.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Meanwhile, supply shortages and price inflation are getting the front page in consumer-focused publications and plenty of airtime on televised news. Many consumers, including myself, become irritated by the sight of empty store shelves where our favorite consumer goods are typically stored. And rightfully so.

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MARCH 27, 2023

In consumer goods industries, better forecasting leads to lower fines from retailers for late or incomplete deliveries. Large consumer goods companies believe that solutions based on a graph database also have real potential. This increases sales.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

Kimberly-Clark is public consumer goods company that generated over $19 billion in revenues last year. This consumer goods behemoth has driven ongoing supply chain productivity through their FORCE (Focused On Reducing Costs Everywhere) program. Not surprisingly, many of FourKites’ users work in transportation operations.

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MARCH 20, 2023

If you take a big consumer goods company, you don’t need to just model products and customers,” o9’s CEO explained. You need to model the company’s competitors, end consumers, and the demographics of customers in Texas versus New York.” “There’s a lot of flexibility required to model the variations and nuances.”

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MARCH 3, 2023

Procter & Gamble (P&G) , the American multinational consumer goods corporation, is continuing to invest in digital transformation, focusing specifically on the supply chain, retail execution, and environmental sustainability. The data show Canadian exports to China also reached a historic high of $27.9

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JULY 31, 2023

Unilever (NYSE: UL) is one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies. Much of this success is related to their relentless commitment to S-Curve programs. Unilever is rather unique in applying S-curves to their ongoing digital transformation. The company had revenues of over €60 billion in their last fiscal year.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

The US trade deficit widened to a record in August, reflecting a pickup in the value of imports of consumer goods and industrial supplies. The gap in trade of goods and services increased 4.2 The value of goods and services imports rose 1.4 percent to $73.3 billion, from a revised $70.3 Exports climbed 0.5

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JANUARY 10, 2022

In a recent FarEye webinar , an executive at Massmart, a Walmart-owned retailer and the second-largest distributor of consumer goods in Africa, talked about how you can’t assume bicycles can deliver across a whole city. There are roads that are safe for bikes, and roads that are not. The bike routes must be carefully mapped.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Imports of cell phones and other consumer goods increased sharply. Weak economic growth in much of the world has curbed demand for many American-made goods, but U.S. Imports rose 2.7 percent to $322.7 billion in September, which is the highest level since February and partly reflects U.S. Exports moved up a smaller 2.2

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

She’s the new digitally-empowered consumer and she is dictating how retailers and consumer goods companies must transform their supply chains to serve her. There’s a new boss in town and she is tougher than any boss you’ve had before. She wants what she wants, when and where she wants it.

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MAY 11, 2015

QAD provides full-featured manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, on premise or via the cloud, with very deep functionality for the Automotive, Food & Beverage/Consumer Goods, High Tech, Industrial, and Life Sciences industries. But when I attended QAD Explore last week (May 4th […].

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JUNE 15, 2022

Over the last couple of years, as the Covid pandemic has changed the way consumers interact and shop with retailers, brands, and consumer goods companies, last mile delivery has become increasingly important. Customer expectations for expedited delivery are becoming more commonplace, in both the B2B and B2C world.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

It has been an anemic peak season for ocean freight haulers as container shipping rates have plunged from pandemic highs and Americans and Europeans continue to pull back on purchases of consumer goods. Daily market prices to move cargo from Asia to the U.S.

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JUNE 16, 2023

The actions, which port employers say include work slowdowns and failure to report to cargo terminals from Southern California to Seattle, have stalled shipments ranging from inbound consumer goods to outbound agricultural commodities since late May.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Like many consumer goods companies, Colgate-Palmolive is taking steps to democratize analytics across the enterprise, including through investments within supply chain analytics engineers. What’s a bit novel is that they’ve also developed an analytics engagement lead role to serve as an organizational coach.

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MAY 12, 2023

Year-over-year import volumes have been on the decline at most ports since late last year and declining exports out of China highlight the slowdown in demand for consumer goods. Our forecast now projects a larger decline in imports in the first half of this year than we forecast last month.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Most examples of warehouse robotics adoption in China are at operations in support of domestic consumption and these examples are predominantly consumer goods retail fulfillment operations.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

billion consumers isn’t immune to Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy’s cost-reduction campaign. The company said it is exiting meal deliveries as well as a service providing bulk doorstep deliveries of packaged consumer goods to small businesses.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

GlobalData’s job analytics database tracks daily job postings across multiple industries, including consumer goods. Between 1 January and 30 June, there were 3,444 ‘active’ jobs related to the supply chain at alcohol companies monitored by GlobalData, Just Drinks’ parent – a 55 percent rise on the second half of 2022.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As people were stuck at home and stopped spending their discretionary income on restaurants, entertainment, and other services, more money was spent on food and consumer goods.

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JUNE 2, 2023

California, which depends on trucks to move billions of dollars worth of consumer goods, manufacturing parts and agricultural products each year, aims to replace more than 30,000 heavily-polluting trucks with clean-energy vehicles by 2035.

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APRIL 30, 2021

Increased demand for consumer goods, especially as the pandemic has lingered on, are exacerbating the capacity crunch. Adobe is integrating FedEx’s recently acquired ShopRunner e-commerce service, which provides expedited delivery from more than 100 merchants, with the software provider’s digital commerce platform.

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JULY 1, 2022

Some retailers are waiting weeks to move cargo by train out of Southern California’s ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, while others are giving up on the railroads and shifting shipments of furniture, apparel and other consumer goods to trucks for long inland journeys on highways.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

Companies across all consumer goods categories are looking at ways to use less packaging while still achieving the same characteristics of functionality. However, those volumes are not included in the performance figures because the delays are considered to be out of the carriers’ control.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Depending on the product, their customers are consumer goods companies, retailers, food service distributors and restaurant chains. They are a leading supplier of poultry, pet food and animal nutrition products based in Siloam Springs, Arkansas in the US.

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MARCH 3, 2021

While Transplace did not report their revenue growth, they did put out a market update report where they wrote about key trends in the freight market: Demand remains strong with a continued surge in consumer goods manufacturing, retail shelf restocking, and a strong housing market.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Mars is one of the largest fast moving consumer goods companies in the world. In 2019, Will Beery was appointed the vice president and tasked with leading the company’s global digital supply chain transformation. This private, family-owned business is headquartered in the US.

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MARCH 24, 2023

Tensions in long-running contract talks at West Coast ports are worsening, with employers accusing unionized dockworkers of slowing cargo handling at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation’s busiest gateway for imported consumer goods.

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JULY 8, 2022

President Joe Biden may announce a rollback of some US tariffs on Chinese consumer goods — as well as a new probe into industrial subsidies that could lead to more duties in strategic areas like technology.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

The number of companies levying supply-chain charges also is growing, said David Friedler, managing partner at consumer-goods consultancy Simpactful. Target is beefing up the team in charge of policing orders, according to a person familiar with the matter. Robots are everywhere these days.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Some of the fastest growth in robot orders is in the metals and food and consumer goods industries. The previous annual record for robot orders was set in 2017 – when North American companies ordered 34,904 robots valued at $1.9

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MARCH 25, 2021

The pandemic drove up prices on many consumer goods as people shifted spending to e-commerce and bought at holiday levels in early spring. Carriers pushed larger items out of the parcel networks and restricted volumes from parcel shippers. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues.

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JUNE 10, 2022

Supply chain shortages have caused prices to rise globally on just about every consumer good imaginable. And mangoes are no exception.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Over the last couple of years, as the Covid pandemic has changed the way consumers interact and shop with retailers, brands, and consumer goods companies, last mile delivery has become increasingly important. Gordon Food Services Conquers the Last Mile ; Chris Cunnane.

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APRIL 15, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic s causing a massive increase in e-grocery and consumer good demand, paired with home delivery or pick-up at store. This rapid increase is overwhelming the direct-to-consumer channel capacities of many retailers including Amazon.

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