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] Another trend that appears to have staying power is hybrid work, which makes the home the hub of more activities than ever before. ”[3].

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 31, 2023

The food and beverage (F&B) industry has always been highly responsive to changes in consumer behavior, but rising food prices have brought about new challenges—pushing manufacturers to search for new ways to adapt and remain competitive in a rapidly changing market.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My first focus was on China sourcing. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) Model Local Market Trends. A Sample Demand Pattern for Consumer Goods. Explore alternative analytics and data sources to eliminate black holes. My last post on the Supply Chain Shaman blog was forty-five days ago.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

Organizations are ‘going carbon neutral by 2025’, and ‘implementing Artificially Intelligent business systems’ and ‘sourcing form solely environmentally friendly suppliers’. Here are 7 Trending Business Practices disrupting Traditional Procurement ! Responsible Sourcing. So… out with the old and in with the new!

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Alloy

JANUARY 24, 2019

IDC Study: Industry Trends and Why a Demand-Driven Organization is Critical Alloy recently commissioned IDC for a Market Spotlight on the future direction of consumer goods companies, which you can read here.

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EMERGE App

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The voracious appetite of US consumers for goods — from Apple products to Xmas trees — saw China become the de facto manufacturer of consumer goods. Business costs will rise for those who are sourcing some or most of their raw materials or goods from China. So, the inevitable will happen.

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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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Requis

JANUARY 9, 2020

Here are the supply chain trends that we see shaping the conversation, and the actual evolution, of B to B in 2020. In most of the supply chain trends articles you’ll read this month, there’s a lot of excitement about technologies like AI, IoT, blockchain, and in some sectors, BIM (building information modelling). Digital twins.

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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. Be a good shipper. Rethink Manufacturing.

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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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SupplyPike

JUNE 15, 2020

Learn about: The definition of consumer packaged goods The types of CPGs What the CPG marketplace looks like Top trends in the CPG industry. Consumer packaged goods (CPG) describe merchandise that has to be reloaded frequently, as opposed to items that can be replenished after longer durations. Local brands.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Factoring PMI reporting for the month of November, the second month of the final quarter of 2023, the various published actual and leading indicator indices indicate some stabilization in consumer goods production but continued contraction in intermediate goods production.

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Logistics Viewpoints

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. Like GlobalTranz, Transplace is private.

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3PL Insights

MAY 3, 2021

“Our customers identified a need for a data insight tool that shows trends in their inventory and transactions,” Evans says. Evans365 accesses and analyzes data sets from Evans’ warehouse management system and other data sources and presents findings graphically. This is only the beginning.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

From our lens, the August data further reflects ongoing shifts in production sourcing within specific industry sectors. Further reported was that contractions in intermediate and investment goods more than offset modest increases in consumer goods manufacturing levels. in August compared to 57.7

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20Cube Logistics

MAY 23, 2022

Storing domestically consumed goods duty-free at ports can save costs. The transportation costs can also be saved through port-centric logistic setups as the goods do not need to be carried to the inland distribution hubs. Global businesses that need to fulfil just-in-time demands can shorten the long lead-times significantly.

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crisp

JULY 12, 2023

Crisp’s resident supply chain expert Barry Bradley shares an update on the state of the consumer goods supply chain, offering insight on how companies can stay ahead of the trends and gain a competitive advantage. Planning with precision An efficient supply chain starts well before products are loaded on a truck.

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Oracle SCM

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

It is a horror that no parent wishes to face – but it is also something that consumer goods companies want to avoid at all costs. In the past however, there was little that companies could do in this regard beyond looking at historical sales trends and trying to project from them what will or won’t be hot in the season ahead.

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Locus

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Between the Covid-19 waves, a trend emerged in the US and the rest of the world that earned the popular name of ‘revenge shopping’. According to McKinsey’s latest consumer pulse survey, Spending in March 2020 was down by 18% as compared to two years later. Sources: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]. Schedule Demo.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In a recent panel discussion with Consumer Goods Technology , Conagra Brands shared how its reworked supply chain strategy is helping the brand meet customer expectations, drive internal performance and find consistent results by transforming supply chain planning. 2 at 4 p.m. 2 at 4 p.m.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Gartner says we are entering what they call the ‘Experience Economy”, where personalization, speed, agility and the ability to predict consumer trends before they happen will separate the winners from losers ( Aspire, Challenge and Transform in a Disruptive World , 27 September 2017).

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2020

He explains, “Most CSR is focused on ‘social compliance’ and ‘auditing’ Audits and compliance have their place and are an important part of ethical sourcing. She states, “Now, what about those consumer goods companies — the ones who make those products we love like coffee and chocolate?

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 5, 2023

Source: S&P Global Monthly PMI Reporting Highlights of Regional Reporting Continued High expansion in India Manufacturing activity levels across India remained at high expansion levels in May, outpacing all other regions. The latest Manufacturing ISM Report on Business® reported a PMI value of 46.9 for May, 0.2 value reported for April.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 2, 2023

Report authors however, qualified that the domestic market demand was the prime source of activity growth. The trending likely involves industry-specific dimensions, a good example being high tech and consumer electronics supply network resiliency needs. for February compared to January’s value of 47.4.

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SupplyShift

APRIL 14, 2020

The abrupt shift in shopping patterns and demand for certain consumer goods and medical supplies compounded the problem and revealed the risk of maintaining small inventories through just-in-time sourcing. Now, roughly six weeks later, the scope of the outbreak and disruptions has magnified. But that’s just the start.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Keeping up with demand and market trends challenges most supply chain operators. It involves analyzing historical sales data, understanding market trends, and considering various factors influencing demand, such as economic conditions, consumer behavior, and competitor activities.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Tim Denman ( @TimDenman ), editor in chief of Consumer Goods Technology, writes, “The supply chain is the lifeblood of the consumer goods industry. Below are some of the supply chain trends subject matter expert believe will have significant impacts in the coming years. ”[2] How are things changing?

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We see consumers change their preferences all the time through nutrition, wellness, and health trends that are constantly evolving. EGIDS is poised to transform the global agriculture and consumer goods value chain.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2021

Q1 is historically a slow trucking period, but that may not be the case this year as online ordering, and the shift into consumer goods has buoyed freight volume. ” A shift in purchasing trends could flip the market mid-year—similar to years past. .” Buying Trends Could Shape 2021 Freight Outlook.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Demand planning also considers factors such as: Your marketing strategy Seasonality Market trends Demand planning teams need to constantly be alert to technology advances such as in Artificial Intelligence or software tools which can be utilised to their advantage. They must draw on all these factors to create a ‘demand plan’.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 6, 2016

For instance, in a recent application that involved temperature and ice cream, a consumer goods company deployed machine learning to develop a model for five European countries: Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and France. Source: NYCCSC.

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QAD

MARCH 30, 2023

They don’t have an internal power source, so range and data storage is sacrificed to gain cost efficiency and lifespan. Passive Ultra High Frequency (UHF) tags are frequently used to track consumer products. Battery-enabled RFID tags use either battery-assisted passive (BAP) or active RFID technology.

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Logility

JANUARY 13, 2014

Just before the holiday break, dropped the very interesting results of a Gartner survey on the challenges to sales and operations planning in Consumer Goods. The trend over the last few years has been to deploy S&OP support tools and processes that aggregate and summarize the demand and supply matching process. Why is that?

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Logility

JANUARY 13, 2014

Just before the holiday break, dropped the very interesting results of a Gartner survey on the challenges to sales and operations planning in Consumer Goods. The trend over the last few years has been to deploy S&OP support tools and processes that aggregate and summarize the demand and supply matching process. Why is that?

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 29, 2015

What will be the key trend that changes the manufacturing industry in 2015? SCN: What is the biggest trend you feel will impact the manufacturing industry’s supply chains in 2015? So whether it’s consumers, customers, suppliers, academics, or open-source innovation, it all plays nicely in this context of the innovation network.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Common examples of finished goods inventory include: Fast-moving consumer goods Electronics Clothing Healthcare products Homeware Vehicles Retailers will typically refer to finished goods as merchandise inventory. Leverage your inventory data to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities for improvement.

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Provenance

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

However, the need for more information is still there, so the trend turns to “influencers”. . ” – Consumer Goods Forum 2019. As brands, you are creating products that have an impact, so the decision you are making from sourcing to packaging matter. There’s a lot of noise from random people.

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