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

BlueYonder

JANUARY 10, 2023

We at Blue Yonder have the privilege of serving hundreds of consumer goods companies globally. Consumer goods companies are: Reviewing working capital investments and their CFO’s are speaking to us about our industry-leading multi-echelon inventory optimization. Integrated planning is a hot topic.

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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. Economic pressures.

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Webinars

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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. It will initially focus on social compliance with a view to expanding the scope to environmental compliance.

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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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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. " Aggressive competitors, margin erosion, and quickly changing consumer preferences and behaviors pose serious challenges to the consumer goods industry.

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Special Report: Supply Chain Trends in Retail and Consumer Goods

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 10, 2020

As the world moves toward near-sourcing, instantaneous commerce and automated logistics, these are the steps companies are taking to build efficient supply chains.

Consumer Goods

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The Pros and Cons: International and Domestic Sourcing

Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

It’s easy to oversimplify the differences between sourcing for parts locally or internationally. When considering where to purchase from, the prevailing idea seems to be that domestic sourcing allows for better control and shorter lead time, but international sourcing is more cost-effective. International Sourcing.

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Mid-Year Assessment of 2022 Supply Chain Sourcing Predictions- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

Restoring More Direct Control in Materials Sourcing. Prediction Two of this year predictions indicated the following: Restoring More Direct Control in Strategic and Tactical Direct Material Sourcing Will be the Driving Force for Businesses and their Supply Chain Management Teams in the Coming Year. Mid-Year Assessment.

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Is the “Autonomous Supply Chain” a Pipe Dream?

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. They are designed to have minimal impact on the performance of the underlying source systems. Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis. I believe this claim.

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Happy Groundhog Day

Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As shown in Figure 1, there are many types of networks: industry-focused networks, functionally focused networks (like sourcing and logistics) and specialized networks for discovery (marketplaces), product serialization, open innovation. I know of no-means to drive interoperability across make, source, and deliver in a multi-tier network.

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Sustainable Product Packaging Impacts Supply Chain Transformation

QAD

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving consumer landscape, the way products are packaged plays a pivotal role in the success of consumer goods manufacturing and the overall supply chain. The transformation has touched all inventory levels from material sourcing to end product delivery.

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Ivalua Supports the Digitalization of Tchibo’s Indirect Purchasing Process with its Source-to-Contract Solution

ivalua

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Ivalua, a global leader in spend management , today announced that Tchibo, one of the largest coffee roasters in the world, has chosen Ivalua and its partner Capgemini to digitize Source-to-Contract (S2C) for its indirect purchasing of goods and services. Founded in 1949, the company today has a turnover of €3.2 ivalua.com.

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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).

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

In consumer goods industries, better forecasting leads to lower fines from retailers for late or incomplete deliveries. Increasingly, forecasts are being improved by leveraging outside data sources rather than merely relying on a company’s internal historical shipment data. This increases sales.

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

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. It was announced at Inspire 2022, the annual event dedicated to the Microsoft partners ecosystem. About ToolsGroup.

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Five Tips on Sourcing Products From China

EMERGE App

JULY 11, 2018

Google a phrase like “sourcing products from China” and you’ll instantly be faced by almost 39 million results! You need to source for products to sell at wholesale prices to your retail customers. And the place to source for most, if not all, of your products is in China. This sounds good so far!

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How To Overcome Supply Chain Disruption

GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Don’t expect to plan for every disruption; instead, develop a strategy to overcome supply chain disruption, regardless of the source. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues. Trade disputes and tariffs.

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Kimberly-Clark’s Digital Transformation of Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

Driver dwell is a key source of driver dissatisfaction and contributes to the driver shortage. Kimberly-Clark is public consumer goods company that generated over $19 billion in revenues last year. K-C needed one solution … to understand where loads are all across the organization” based on “one source of truth.”

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Driving a Responsive, Sustainable and Efficient Food Supply Chain

DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 31, 2023

Source: Deloitte – Consumer sustainability tops the innovation agenda The effective implementation of sustainability goals on emissions, circularity, waste reduction and the recyclability of materials requires a transformation of company operations spanning the entire supply chain—of which digital transformation is a key part.

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What is Supply Chain Resiliency?

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues.

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Metcalf’s Law Does Not Apply to Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Global Wide Manufacturing Output Strengthens in March 2024

Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

New order growth reportedly accelerated at the fastest in nearly three plus year, which is a likely indication that this region has become the new go-to for China Plus product sourcing strategies. This is not only from the notions of China Plus sourcing actions, but is responding to export demand from other Asian, Europe and U.S.

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Consumer Packaged Goods Manufacturers and Consumer-centric Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

JANUARY 14, 2022

Lisa Johnston ( @thatljohnston ), Senior Editor at Consumer Goods Technology, writes, “Much has been written about the extreme shifts in consumer behavior patterns.”[2] Because consumer behavior has changed rapidly and dramatically during the pandemic, relying on historical data is not always a good strategy.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America. If you take a big consumer goods company, you don’t need to just model products and customers,” o9’s CEO explained. “The There is no one source that can provide good sustainability data.

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Strong Supply Chains Required For an Economic Rebound: Six Steps To Take

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My first focus was on China sourcing. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) A Sample Demand Pattern for Consumer Goods. Consider technologies like 1010 Data in consumer goods in conjunction with demand sensing technologies to replace rules-based consumption of demand into an inventory signal.

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Supply chain mapping meets blockchain tracking: Provenance partners with Sourcemap to power end-to-end, robust traceability for consumer goods

Sourcemap

JULY 23, 2017

Provenance blockchain technology tracks every transaction between the suppliers in real-time, to verify that every product is sourced through the authorized chain of custody. Sourcemap's supply chain social network connects all of the suppliers and sub-suppliers in a global network, ensuring that they are who they say they are.

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Logility to Acquire Network Optimization Provider Starboard Solutions

Logility

JUNE 28, 2022

Serving leading companies in consumer goods, retail, discrete manufacturing, 3PL’s and management consulting across the globe, Starboard is the fastest growing Supply Chain Design Platform and the most current technology available in the market.

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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. This multinational operates 280 factories and 500 warehouses, that source raw materials from 52,000 suppliers in over 150 countries, processes 25 million customer orders annually, that are then shipped to customers in over 190 nations.

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“Why Do I have to Wait?” Supply Chain Disruption Gets Its Day

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Source: Descartes Datamyne.

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Powering the Sustainable Enterprise with Supply Chain Innovation

Logility

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In a previous release of the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform, we touched on two core principles that we are returning to repeatedly as we think about how best to serve our customers: Most advantageous for our customers is the opportunity to be transparent with their customers; Customers expect to have their order fulfilled quickly, safely, (..)

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Mars Wrigley’s Highly Successful Supply Chain Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars is one of the largest fast moving consumer goods companies in the world. Demand sensing involves the use of the external data sources – particularly the latest sales and market data – to improve short-term forecasting and then be able to use that improved understanding of consumer behavior to improve their supply planning.

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The Messages of 2022 Cyber Monday and Black Friday Are Far Different

Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Specifically for retail and consumer goods focused supply chain management teams, a short-term tactical concern is the ongoing management of excess product inventories, which in many cases, need to be trimmed before the end of the year. Implications of Covid Lockdown Challenges Across China.

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Roadmap of Industry Groups – Your Complete Guide to Supply Chain Sustainability Collaboration

SupplyShift

JULY 23, 2021

Aim-Progress : This forum of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturers and suppliers promotes responsible sourcing practices and sustainable supply chains. The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) is a global non-profit organization helping members drive transparency and sustainability in consumer goods supply chains.

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Roadmap of Industry Groups – Your Complete Guide to Supply Chain Sustainability Collaboration

SupplyShift

JULY 23, 2021

Procurement and Supply Chain Aim-Prog r ess : This forum of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturers and suppliers promotes responsible sourcing practices and sustainable supply chains. The Consumer Goods Forum : The Consumer Goods Forum brings consumer goods retailers and manufacturers together globally to drive change.

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Supply Chain Transformation, Part One: The Transformation Imperative

Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Journalist Lisa Terry notes that, even before the pandemic, consumer goods manufacturers were reeling from uncertainty. 7] Lisa Terry, “ Enabling a Future-Proof Supply Chain ,” Consumer Goods Technology, 31 August 2021. [8] ” Concluding Thoughts. ” Concluding Thoughts.

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Planning Food Logistics Efficiently in Times of Disruption

DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 26, 2020

Planning and optimization software, powered by mathematical optimization, can perform calculations based on all available data sources to generate optimal plans It will help your planners manage existing resources and constraints to meet your business goals.

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o9 Solutions Partners with Columbus Consulting International to Help Companies Accelerate Adoption of a Global Unified Commerce Model

o9 Solutions

JANUARY 18, 2022

18 , 2021 – o9 Solutions , a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance with Columbus Consulting International , a boutique consulting firm specializing in solving problems for consumer goods companies and retailers, including grocers. .

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CPG / Food & Beverage

Vecco International

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Large global consumer goods companies with a combination of internal manufacturing and outsourcing must effectively predict demand and manage complex multi-national supply chain networks to ensure on-time in full delivery to their retail customers such as WalMart, CostCo, Amazon, QVC.

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5 Top resources for launching products into new retail stores

Alloy

AUGUST 10, 2021

For consumer goods brands, launching into new stores provides major opportunities, but also comes with major risks. In fact, 74% of consumers switched brands last year due to lack of product availability. How native partnered with Alloy unlock Target retail data & grow sales (Consumer Goods Technology).

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Defining Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

SupplyPike

JUNE 15, 2020

Types of Consumer Goods. Consumer goods are items meant to be consumed every day. There are two types of consumer goods: fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and slow-moving consumer goods (SMCG). This, in turn, establishes the turnover of goods. Local brands.

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Data is Essential for CPG Success

Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

.” According to Nimrod Kaplan, CTO and Co-Founder at Water.io, consumer data might not be as abundant as people think. He explains, “Big data essentially has three sources: social data, machine data and transactional data. Social data is comprised of a consumer’s online behavior.

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ToolsGroup’s Michael Haiber and Stefano Novati Named Supply & Demand Chain Executive “Pros to Know” for 2021

ToolsGroup

MARCH 17, 2021

Michael has been particularly instrumental in the past 12 months working closely with companies in the fast-moving consumer goods industry on COVID-19 response and recovery.

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Global Supply Chain Recovery Dependent On A Vaccine

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 30, 2020

The companies are just not good at managing inventories and orchestrating distribution strategies. The industry planning team expertise lags the consumer goods, and hi-tech industries. They are seldom cross-functional to optimize source, make, and deliver together. New Problems Require New Solutions.

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

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

Webinars

Trending Sources

What’s Good for Consumer Goods Manufacturing?

Webinars

Consumer Goods Forum Creates Sustainable Supply Chain Program

Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Consumer Goods Technology Releases List of Top Supply Chain Companies

Special Report: Supply Chain Trends in Retail and Consumer Goods

The Pros and Cons: International and Domestic Sourcing

Mid-Year Assessment of 2022 Supply Chain Sourcing Predictions- Part Two

Is the “Autonomous Supply Chain” a Pipe Dream?

Happy Groundhog Day

Sustainable Product Packaging Impacts Supply Chain Transformation

Ivalua Supports the Digitalization of Tchibo’s Indirect Purchasing Process with its Source-to-Contract Solution

Better Together: Logility and Parker Avery Group Announce Partnership

The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

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

Five Tips on Sourcing Products From China

How To Overcome Supply Chain Disruption

Kimberly-Clark’s Digital Transformation of Shipping

Driving a Responsive, Sustainable and Efficient Food Supply Chain

What is Supply Chain Resiliency?

Metcalf’s Law Does Not Apply to Supply Chain Management

Global Wide Manufacturing Output Strengthens in March 2024

Consumer Packaged Goods Manufacturers and Consumer-centric Supply Chains

Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Strong Supply Chains Required For an Economic Rebound: Six Steps To Take

Supply chain mapping meets blockchain tracking: Provenance partners with Sourcemap to power end-to-end, robust traceability for consumer goods

Logility to Acquire Network Optimization Provider Starboard Solutions

Unilever’s Relentless Commitment to S-Curve Transformations

“Why Do I have to Wait?” Supply Chain Disruption Gets Its Day

Powering the Sustainable Enterprise with Supply Chain Innovation

Mars Wrigley’s Highly Successful Supply Chain Digital Transformation

The Messages of 2022 Cyber Monday and Black Friday Are Far Different

Roadmap of Industry Groups – Your Complete Guide to Supply Chain Sustainability Collaboration

Roadmap of Industry Groups – Your Complete Guide to Supply Chain Sustainability Collaboration

Supply Chain Transformation, Part One: The Transformation Imperative

Planning Food Logistics Efficiently in Times of Disruption

o9 Solutions Partners with Columbus Consulting International to Help Companies Accelerate Adoption of a Global Unified Commerce Model

CPG / Food & Beverage

5 Top resources for launching products into new retail stores

Defining Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

Data is Essential for CPG Success

ToolsGroup’s Michael Haiber and Stefano Novati Named Supply & Demand Chain Executive “Pros to Know” for 2021

Global Supply Chain Recovery Dependent On A Vaccine

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