Logility

JULY 30, 2015

Since 2009 we have worked with industry publication Consumer Goods Technology to check the pulse of sales and operations planning (S&OP) in the consumer goods industry. Here are a few highlights from the past surveys: 80 percent of Consumer Goods companies have a formal S&OP process.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

One tactic major retailers have used to help increase their margins is to offer their own private label branded products as lower-cost alternatives to the consumer goods brands. Consumer goods manufacturers have struggled to combat these private label incursions, with varying degrees of success.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Walmart is not the only big retailer with OTIF requirements, but as the world’s largest retailer, and a company with stringent requirements , Walmart’s OTIF requirements are top of mind for consumer goods companies. These solutions allow companies to prove that their goods arrived on-time.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A December Labor Department report shows that the price of consumer goods increased by 6.8% With all these burning questions, we reached out to our consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and manufacturing expert and CVP of Industry Strategies, Shri Hariharan , to get some answers. And these worries aren’t unfounded.

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Alloy

JANUARY 10, 2019

They are also a great way for us to stay up-to-date on industry thinking, further our learning, and get inspired by the great work everyone is doing. As we plan our schedule for the year ahead, we thought we’d share a compiled list of industry events to serve as a resource for others doing the same. RSVP > Feb. RSVP > Feb.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2019

There is a lot of discussion today about supply chain transformation, most of it focused on the consumer goods and retail industries, but there are many challenges and opportunities in the Oil and Energy industry too. It’s an industry that has a major impact on the world economy and on our personal lives.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Consumer Goods Technology recently released its 2012 Consumer Goods Technology Reader’s Choice survey results. " Aggressive competitors, margin erosion, and quickly changing consumer preferences and behaviors pose serious challenges to the consumer goods industry.

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E2open

JULY 11, 2016

Turning Your Consumer Goods Supply Chain Into a Competitive Advantage. Today’s modern supply chains are multi-enterprise, starting with consumers, retailers, distributors; and flowing through an extended network of suppliers, contract manufacturers, and other third parties. Consumer Goods. Monday 11 July 2016.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 27, 2021

On the surface, it seems like the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry performed better than most during the COVID pandemic. Consumer goods e-commerce sales for example increased 91% year over year according to a NielsenIQ analysis. Invest in Digital Planning to Stay Abreast of Evolving Consumer Needs.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 24, 2017

Are industrial manufacturers seizing all the opportunities of a more digital world? Let’s take a look at four reasons why digital transformation is an imperative in 2017 for industrial manufacturers: 1. Changing Consumer Expectations. a provider of integrated material handling and storage systems for industrial operations.

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Maine Pointe

AUGUST 10, 2022

The consumer goods and retail (CGR) industry is adept at gathering customer data. According to industry estimates , 2.5 Changing Big Data into Action. billion gigabytes of data about customers are gathered every day across the world, clearly meeting the definition of “big data.”

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Maine Pointe

AUGUST 10, 2022

The consumer goods and retail (CGR) industry is adept at gathering customer data. According to industry estimates , 2.5 Changing Big Data into Action. billion gigabytes of data about customers are gathered every day across the world, clearly meeting the definition of “big data.”

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Enterra Insights

JULY 13, 2020

Prior to the novel coronavirus outbreak, many pundits believed we were in the midst of a fourth industrial revolution. They write, “Industrial production was transformed by steam power in the nineteenth century, electricity in the early twentieth century, and automation in the 1970s.”[1] He also believes Industry 4.0

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Despite some relief from inflationary pressures in recent months, businesses throughout the logistics industry and beyond are being forced to make difficult decisions. After a week of high-highs and low-lows within the global logistics industry, we’ve gathered the nine stories you need to know. In a welcome turn-of-events for the U.S.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 24, 2021

I have been a ToolsGroup partner since 2015, after working over 10 years at a global consumer goods company, where I started knowing and enjoying the benefits of ToolsGroup Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+). Overstocks can lead to unacceptable surplus costs and waste; insufficient stock leads to unmet demand and poor service levels.

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PINC

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A perennial top industry issue, the driver shortage ranked as the industry’s top concern for the second consecutive year in 2018, according to ATRI. This latest round impacts about $52 billion worth of consumer goods. The post Transportation Trends: What’s Going on in the Trucking Industry?

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2023

With his vast experience in distribution, Shane has become a valuable asset to the logistics industry, particularly in the Beauty and Packaged Food sectors. Square1 primarily serves clients in the Beauty, Packaged Food, Apparel, and Consumer Goods industries, and currently works with 40 domestic and international clients.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 19, 2023

The Italian consumer goods company applies ToolsGroup’s probabilistic forecasting and inventory optimization across its expansive network to enhance customer experience and business value. Learn more about how ToolsGroup’s solutions help consumer goods companies – like Melitta– increase forecast accuracy and profitability HERE.

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Logility

AUGUST 30, 2022

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, and The Parker Avery Group, a leading retail and consumer goods consulting firm, announced that they have formed a strategic partnership. ATLANTA (August 30, 2022) – Logility, Inc., We are very excited about this partnership. About Logility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A recent survey conducted by the International Road Transport Union (IRU) industry association shows that this bottleneck has exacerbated worldwide over the past two years. These lower costs can then reduce the overall cost of consumer goods. which furthermore enables them to lower the costs for consumer goods.

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SupplyShift

JULY 23, 2021

Industry groups are one of the best ways for companies to put their heads together and solve common issues, helping them achieve net-zero supply chain emissions, drive visibility into sub-tier suppliers, and collaborate on any number of ESG issues.

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SupplyShift

JULY 23, 2021

Industry groups are one of the best ways for companies to put their heads together and solve common issues, helping them achieve net-zero supply chain emissions, drive visibility into sub-tier suppliers, and collaborate on any number of ESG compliance issues. The Consumer Goods Forum (Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative).

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Industry Held Hostage by ERP Upgrades. The industry focus for the past three decades on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) consumed capital and energy. The industry is caught in an endless cycle of ERP upgrades. Over the decades, I watched the consolidation of industry groups. Sadly, I won this argument.

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Proxima

JULY 4, 2022

It’s reassuring to see that our work creates positive change in the world of supply chains through offerings such as Decarbonization-as-a-Service which has been recognized by peers in the industry and our clients. Finalists in three categories in industry-leading awards. Work at an award winning company.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 4, 2021

To improve their ability to grapple with issues like climate change, deforestation, plastic pollution and human rights abuses, industry-leading companies are now collaborating to form corporate responsibility coalitions, aligning their focus on ESG, GHG reductions, and supply chain scrutiny. The Collaborative Corporates.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Christine Barnhart, the vice president of Christine Barnhart at MSCN vendor Nulogy, points out that these networks tend to grow up as solutions for industries and thus have data elements and functionality particularly relevant to that industry. In automotive, the OEM says “jump” and the suppliers asks “how high?”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Clarkston Consulting is focused on the Consumer Goods and Life Sciences industries. If Oracle is going into a deal where the potential customer is apt to want industry-specific features or other functionality that Oracle does not have, they prefer to bring Trinamix along to the sales pitch.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 3, 2017

The ToolsGroup customer base of more than 300 companies has allowed us to access a wide array of supply chain planning data for benchmarking in different industries and different circumstances. We wanted to share the results from our study, including industry leader best practices. Industrial. Consumer Goods.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2022

ToolsGroup won the award for its deep supply chain planning expertise and cloud-based solutions for retail, manufacturing, distribution, consumer goods, aftermarket parts, and telecom industries. Microsoft also awarded ToolsGroup a Digital Transformation Champ Award for the category Cloud for Industries. “We

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Alloy

JULY 28, 2023

Consumer Goods Index – May 2023 Edition Deltas in sales over time and inventory totals are critical leading indicators for the health of the consumer goods industry. Retailers and consumers alike are impacted by deviations and volatility in the consumer goods supply chain.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The food and beverage industry continues to face substantial change and unprecedented disruption. Now is the time for smart manufacturing to become ingrained in the food and beverage production industry. Here are three things to consider when it comes to adopting smart manufacturing in the food and beverage industry: 1.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The food and beverage industry continues to face substantial change and unprecedented disruption. Now is the time for smart manufacturing to become ingrained in the food and beverage production industry. Here are three things to consider when it comes to adopting smart manufacturing in the food and beverage industry: 1.

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Sourcemap

JULY 23, 2017

Sourcemap, New York, and Provenance, London, link their digital platforms for supply chain transparency, enabling businesses in the food and fashion industries to map their supply chain, gather data and track verified claims with the movement of product. Interested? Contact us to find out how we can help your organization. Contact us.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 13, 2021

While the construction industry itself poses some unique challenges in supply chains across the world, cement manufacturing comes with its own diverse set of differentiators like the ones mentioned below: Top unique challenges of cement industry. Rapid Global Urbanization. billion by 2022. Increasing Workforce Numbers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

An analysis of improvement, performance, and value of over 500 public companies in 28 industries over a decade. (I However, writing it is a great time to get into industry patterns and think. Orbit Charts for Kimberly-Clark and Kellogg for 2013-2022 A good friend of mine, asked, “Isn’t this the impact of the pandemic.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

In consumer goods industries, better forecasting leads to lower fines from retailers for late or incomplete deliveries. Some suppliers of demand management software can also provide excellent forecast benchmarking for selected industries. This increases sales.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

An initial estimate of this year’s retail holiday spending indicates a mixed bag, depending on either retail industry, consumer goods producer or logistics and transportation industry perspectives. Mastercard SpendingPulse Data Payments processing firm Mastercard Spending Pulse indicated this week that U.S.

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