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

Logility

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

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. The next frontier in lean programs has the potential for far-reaching benefits.

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A New Era in Transport Logistics with Big Data and Self-Driving Trucks

Logistics Viewpoints

This requires complete transparency across all steps and events along the entire supply chain. This is where big data technologies come into play. Big data for real-time optimizations in transport logistics. Logistics and transport service providers create enormous data records as they manage the flow of goods.

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Is the “Autonomous Supply Chain” a Pipe Dream?

Logistics Viewpoints

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. The supply chain team must grapple with a couple of questions.

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Three Tips for Building an Agile CPG Supply Chain

ToolsGroup

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.

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Global Supply Chain Recovery Dependent On A Vaccine

Supply Chain Shaman

However, supply chain leaders well understand that drug discovery, manufacturing, and distribution are all necessary to deliver the vaccine to a willing arm. Development and distribution, as any supply chain leader knows, are two different topics. As a result, the supply chain, as we knew it is dead.

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The Routeique Story with Mike Allan

The Logistics of Logistics

Mike Allan is the President and CEO at Routeique , a cloud-based software platform for managing the logistics and delivery operation – both in the office, and in the field. Routeique is offered as SAAS (Software As A Service) and requires no special hardware or software and no IT staff or technical resources.