Consumer Goods - Supply Chain Brief

Consumer Goods: A Formula for Service, Speed, & Brand Success

Logility

AUGUST 31, 2023

The consumer goods industry may have experienced tremendous growth, but figuring out what consumers want is an ever-evolving puzzle. From where they shop and how frequently they buy to what price points entice them, consumer behaviors have been challenging to predict over the past year.

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Build Digitally Lean Consumer Goods and Home & Lifestyle Manufacturing Teams

DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In the world of consumer goods and home and lifestyle, today’s fast-moving consumer trends demand fast delivery and quality at the lowest possible cost—for which lean programs in manufacturing are paramount. Out with the old. Lean into digital collaboration.

Consumer Goods

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Exploring the Evolution of the Consumer Goods Industry with SAP’s John Buckley

Alloy

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Exploring the Evolution of the Consumer Goods Industry with SAP's John Buckley John Buckley, Consumer Products Industry Advisor @ SAP The consumer goods industry has been through a roller-coaster of transformations over the past few decades. The consumer plays a crucial role in this equation.

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What’s Good for Consumer Goods Manufacturing?

USC Consulting Group

MARCH 27, 2023

What’s on the road ahead for consumer goods manufacturing? Although the industry is multifaceted and varied, encompassing everything from household goods to food & beverage to apparel and more, most arms of the consumer goods industry are facing similar challenges. Supply chain woes. billion this year.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Digital Supply Chains Change the Game in Consumer Goods, Part 1

BlueYonder

JANUARY 10, 2023

Improving supply chain competitiveness, profitability and sustainability are now key considerations for the CXOs (which includes CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and Chief Supply Chain Officers), not just Chief Planning Officer. We at Blue Yonder have the privilege of serving hundreds of consumer goods companies globally.

Consumer Goods

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Digital Supply Chains Change the Game in Consumer Goods, Part 2

BlueYonder

JANUARY 17, 2023

We discussed the urgency to enable a unified plan with the Manufacturing Industry Cloud (MIC) for Consumer Industries. The consumer good companies are looking at how to carry out digital transformation in a way to minimize risk and learning curve. Value-Based Approach. Digital Transformation. Shri: Of course.

Consumer Goods

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With ToolsGroup’s AI-Powered Planning, Legami Delivers Customer-Centric Service While Driving Business Growth

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. This automated, AI-powered solution includes Demand Planning & Forecasting and Inventory Optimization.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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Planning Seasonal Food Production in Uncertain Times

DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 6, 2020

Demand planning, however, gets even tougher for manufacturers with the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. How will panic buying and shortages of certain basic goods affect seasonal products? Will sales in grocery stores increase drastically because everything else is closed or will people consume less seasonal foods?

Scenario Planning

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Will Consumer Goods Be Stronger from the Pandemic?

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Consumer goods article and permission to publish here provided by Wouter Nederkoorn. We all know and regularly purchase Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG, often also referred to as Consumer Packaged Goods, or CPG). You need to embrace agility if you plan to emerge from this crisis stronger than ever before.

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Can Omni-Channel Help Consumer Goods Companies Fight Private Label?

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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S&OP in Consumer Goods: A Cumulative Research Study

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.

S&OP

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Walmart Lowers their Shipping Requirements, but their Suppliers Still Struggle

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.

Shipping

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Planning Food Logistics Efficiently in Times of Disruption

DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 26, 2020

It is critical for retailers to quickly respond to these sudden changes, but many struggle with this because their planners still rely on spreadsheets and legacy tools to plan their logistics operations. These methods aren’t made to solve today’s complex supply chain planning challenges.

Sourcing Strategies

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2019 Conferences for Consumer Goods Professionals

Alloy

JANUARY 10, 2019

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. Which events are you planning to attend? Many of these are geared toward a specific audience, such as sales or supply chain. Are there any others you recommend we check out?

Consumer Goods

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Supply Chain Planning for Direct-To-Consumer

ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) presents special supply chain planning challenges for both smaller microbrands (e.g., eyeglass brand Warby Parker or mattress seller Casper) and much larger consumer goods incumbents, but the planning challenges are different depending on which type of company you are.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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Supply Chain Planning in a Post-S&OP Era

Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

“Over the last fifteen years,” writes Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, “Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) enjoyed a renaissance.”[1] Bowman, Managing Editor of SupplyChainBrain , to ask him, “Is sales and operations planning obsolete?”[3]

S&OP

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Three Tips for Building an Agile CPG Supply Chain

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. Anticipate Consumer Demand and Supply Chain Uncertainty with Probabilistic Planning.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

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Consumer Goods Forum Creates Sustainable Supply Chain Program

Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 7, 2018

"Today, any company wanting to assess the sustainability of their value chains faces a confusing array of different technical standards and auditing approaches,” Peter Freedman, managing director, The Consumer Goods Forum. The development process for the environmental benchmark is planned to begin in early 2019.

Consumer Goods

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Benchmarking Your Supply Chain Planning in 2017

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. The key challenges cited most often by clients in different industries were: Consumer Goods. Consumer Goods. Industrial.

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Consumer Goods Technology Releases List of Top Supply Chain Companies

Logility

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Consumer Goods Technology recently released its 2012 Consumer Goods Technology Reader’s Choice survey results. In Supply Chain Planning, Logility was voted highest in customer experience of all solution providers. White Paper: Successful Sales and Operations Planning in 5 Steps.

Consumer Goods

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“Digital Transformation” and Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

MAY 15, 2018

Your company has an older supply chain planning (SCP) system of record (SOR) like SAP APO that was developed in the 1990s. But it’s clear that this platform is not getting you what you want: a “next generation”, “low touch”, and “not stapled together” planning platform. Stepping up to Connected Planning. Here is the scenario.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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Case study: supply chain forecasting as a service in consumer goods

Aioneers

DECEMBER 9, 2021

For complex supply chain networks in a VUCA world, expertise in supply chain planning is key to meet demand most efficiently and reliably possible. In that case, supply chain planning as a service can be a good alternative by utilizing the expertise of specialized data scientists to increase the quality of your forecasts.

Forecasting

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Supply Chain Planning BPO: What’s Driving It and Should You Get On Board?

ToolsGroup

AUGUST 20, 2019

More and more businesses are hopping on the outsourcing bus and letting the experts take the wheel to drive supply chain planning processes. Several years ago ToolsGroup pioneered business process outsourcing (BPO) as an alternative to in-house supply chain planning (SCP). Those companies also reduced planning spend.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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Contingency Planning Amid a Potential Rail Strike

QAD

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The other 50% consists mostly of shipping containers carrying smaller consumer goods. An Urgent Need for Contingency Planning . The specter of a rail strike highlights the critical importance of contingency planning. Events like a rail strike underline how urgent contingency planning really is.

Scenario Planning

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Turning Your Consumer Goods Supply Chain Into a Competitive Advantage

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.

Consumer Goods

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Data Project Helps Consumer Goods Company Save $1.5 MM and Improve Truckload Planning

CHAINalytics

JANUARY 25, 2023

A leading consumer goods company was undergoing a massive transformation and was ready to implement a Transportation Management Solution, but there was a big hurdle to overcome. With the inconsistencies … The post Data Project Helps Consumer Goods Company Save $1.5

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5 Tips for Supply Chain Planning in a Turbulent Environment

CHAINalytics

APRIL 21, 2020

Food and consumer goods manufacturers along with their retail counterparts are dealing with unprecedented highs across consumer channels, while “non-essential” companies are being plagued with historical lows. In both cases, planning for the future has become increasingly difficult.

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Is the “Autonomous Supply Chain” a Pipe Dream?

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Aera Technology offers a solution they call “Aera Decision Cloud” A key challenge for manufacturers is connecting integrated business planning (IBP) – a longer term plan – to operational planning and execution – what needs to be done in the near term. What part of the plan should be executed?

Supply Chain Planning Software

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Is your supply chain planning ready for the “Experience Economy”?

ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 17, 2017

AI systems boosts planning agility by supporting decision-making in highly complex, changing environments, all the time getting smarter as they acquire more human knowledge and context. Early adopters like Lennox are refining their algorithms and improving planning outcomes over several years already - and they continue to do so.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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Supply Chain Planning BPO: What’s Driving It and Should You Get On Board?

ToolsGroup

AUGUST 20, 2019

More and more businesses are hopping on the outsourcing bus and letting the experts take the wheel to drive supply chain planning processes. Several years ago ToolsGroup pioneered business process outsourcing (BPO) as an alternative to in-house supply chain planning (SCP). Those companies also reduced planning spend.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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Better Together: Logility and Parker Avery Group Announce Partnership

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. NASDAQ: AMSWA).

Logility

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

Chakri Gottemukkala, CEO at Supply Chain Planning Vendor o9 Solutions There are several young supply chain software companies that are unicorns. o9 Solutions has grown from a small company to a significant player in the supply chain planning (SCP) market in a short period of time. A unicorn has a valuation of over $1 billion.

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No chicken, no gravy, no customers – KFC’s planning woes are entirely preventable

AIMMS

MARCH 14, 2018

” The supply chain meltdown can be attributed to planning issues and risk management. If KFC had used Prescriptive Analytics to test their assumptions and evaluate risks, they could’ve seen this coming and had a plan in place. They went from 6 distribution centers to 1. We’re here to help.

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Target’s Acknowledgement and Plan to Address Excess Inventory

Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 10, 2022

In our Supply Chain Matters commentaries focused on online customer fulfillment and especially the 2021 holiday fulfilment period, we cautioned retail and consumer goods supply chain management teams to be watchful for the bullwhip effect in inventory planning and replenishment needs to support expected customer demand.

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No chicken, no gravy, no customers – KFC’s planning woes are entirely preventable

AIMMS

MARCH 14, 2018

” The supply chain meltdown can be attributed to planning issues and risk management. If KFC had used Prescriptive Analytics to test their assumptions and evaluate risks, they could’ve seen this coming and had a plan in place. They went from 6 distribution centers to 1. We’re here to help.

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Do I really need S&OP? 3 Questions to Answer

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MAY 5, 2022

There was an excellent article from McKinsey published on 2 March 2022 entitled: “ Autonomous supply chain planning for consumer goods companies ”.

Supply and Demand

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The Coolest Supply Chain Boutique Consultants

Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I’ve completed research on supply chain planning (SCP) boutiques. Clarkston Consulting is focused on the Consumer Goods and Life Sciences industries. They also have a rigorous approach to integrated business planning consulting. They do supply chain strategic consulting and supply chain planning implementations.

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ToolsGroup Wins Microsoft’s Best ISV Partner Award for the Second Year in a Row

ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2022

Milan, July 27 , 2022 – ToolsGroup , a global leader in AI-driven retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, is proud to announce it has been awarded Microsoft Italy’s Best Independent Software Vendor Partner Award for the second year in a row. About ToolsGroup.

ToolsGroup

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Optimized Planning for an Explosive 4th of July

Logility

JULY 4, 2018

Most people don’t think about all the planning that needs to take place in the months leading up to the 4 th to make sure everything is available to make the 4 th a success. Procurement and manufacturing plans need to be created and executed based on these forecasts.

Optimal Sourcing

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Optimized Planning for an Explosive 4th of July

Logility

JULY 3, 2018

Most people don’t think about all the planning that needs to take place in the months leading up to the 4 th to make sure everything is available to make the 4 th a success. Procurement and manufacturing plans need to be created and executed based on these forecasts.

Optimal Sourcing

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Unilever’s Relentless Commitment to S-Curve Transformations

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 31, 2023

Unilever (NYSE: UL) is one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies. Providing one face to the customer required better order management, improved master data, and a new supply chain planning (SCP) solution from Kinaxis. The savings from SCP would be used to fuel Unilever’s aggressive growth plan.

Inventory Reduction

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LIXIL Partners with o9 Solutions to deploy AI enabled Demand planning

o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2020

This article has also been published on Business Wire o9 Solutions today announced that LIXIL in the Americas, pioneer of water and housing products across brands including American Standard, GROHE and DXV, will deploy the next-generation AI-enabled o9 platform for demand planning.

Supply and Demand

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What’s Wrong with Aftermarket Parts Supply Chain Planning?

ToolsGroup

MAY 10, 2016

What’s wrong with aftermarket supply chain planning really has nothing to do with planning, but with management expectations. New technologies have enabled far better approaches to planning aftermarket and service parts and far better results. This is actually a trick question. For more details on their story, see my 2015 blog.

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Consumer Goods: A Formula for Service, Speed, & Brand Success

Build Digitally Lean Consumer Goods and Home & Lifestyle Manufacturing Teams

Trending Sources

Exploring the Evolution of the Consumer Goods Industry with SAP’s John Buckley

What’s Good for Consumer Goods Manufacturing?

Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Digital Supply Chains Change the Game in Consumer Goods, Part 1

Digital Supply Chains Change the Game in Consumer Goods, Part 2

With ToolsGroup’s AI-Powered Planning, Legami Delivers Customer-Centric Service While Driving Business Growth

Planning Seasonal Food Production in Uncertain Times

Will Consumer Goods Be Stronger from the Pandemic?

Can Omni-Channel Help Consumer Goods Companies Fight Private Label?

S&OP in Consumer Goods: A Cumulative Research Study

Walmart Lowers their Shipping Requirements, but their Suppliers Still Struggle

Planning Food Logistics Efficiently in Times of Disruption

2019 Conferences for Consumer Goods Professionals

Supply Chain Planning for Direct-To-Consumer

Supply Chain Planning in a Post-S&OP Era

Three Tips for Building an Agile CPG Supply Chain

Consumer Goods Forum Creates Sustainable Supply Chain Program

Benchmarking Your Supply Chain Planning in 2017

Consumer Goods Technology Releases List of Top Supply Chain Companies

“Digital Transformation” and Supply Chain Planning

Case study: supply chain forecasting as a service in consumer goods

Supply Chain Planning BPO: What’s Driving It and Should You Get On Board?

Contingency Planning Amid a Potential Rail Strike

Turning Your Consumer Goods Supply Chain Into a Competitive Advantage

Data Project Helps Consumer Goods Company Save $1.5 MM and Improve Truckload Planning

5 Tips for Supply Chain Planning in a Turbulent Environment

Is the “Autonomous Supply Chain” a Pipe Dream?

Is your supply chain planning ready for the “Experience Economy”?

Supply Chain Planning BPO: What’s Driving It and Should You Get On Board?

Better Together: Logility and Parker Avery Group Announce Partnership

Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

No chicken, no gravy, no customers – KFC’s planning woes are entirely preventable

Target’s Acknowledgement and Plan to Address Excess Inventory

No chicken, no gravy, no customers – KFC’s planning woes are entirely preventable

Do I really need S&OP? 3 Questions to Answer

The Coolest Supply Chain Boutique Consultants

ToolsGroup Wins Microsoft’s Best ISV Partner Award for the Second Year in a Row

Optimized Planning for an Explosive 4th of July

Optimized Planning for an Explosive 4th of July

Unilever’s Relentless Commitment to S-Curve Transformations

LIXIL Partners with o9 Solutions to deploy AI enabled Demand planning

What’s Wrong with Aftermarket Parts Supply Chain Planning?

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