Precoro

MARCH 31, 2023

March 21 was the second annual iteration of World Sustainable Procurement Day , an online event organized by the Sustainable Procurement Pledge team, SPP Chapters, SPP Champions, and partners to raise awareness about the importance of ethical procurement and to share the best sustainability practices with organizations worldwide.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

Supply chain technology industry analyst and Supply Chain Matters Founder Bob Ferrari provides added perspectives and highlights to last week’s announced acquisition of Starboard Solutions by Logility. Noted customers include Porsche , Deloitte , CBRE , Flexe, Geodis, Miele, One Network , and Topco , among others. Added Perspective.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2023

Analysts say Amazon’s service can help the company retain users of its $139-a-year Amazon Prime subscription, which also provides streaming, discounts at Whole Foods Market and other perks. Technology partner Fulfil Solutions Inc., Amazon’s fast-shipping service can add fees for small orders. into a micro-fulfillment center (MFC).

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The call to action in April 2016 was: Increasingly companies are evaluating business network solutions to close the gap on inter-enterprise visibility ; but as companies work on the problem, they find that they need to somehow interconnect business networks. Defining a solution to close the gaps are not so easy. The gaps are large.

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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] Stable Consumer Behaviors. Taking the Digital Path to Purchase. Purchasing Out of Necessity. ”[3]. ”[3]. ”[5].

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Locus

JULY 25, 2023

“E-commerce is becoming a reality,” the management consulting company stated, “reinventing consumers’ path to purchase, forming new customer experiences , disrupting business models, and creating growth opportunities for large and small retailers as well as for a new generation of pure E-commerce players.”

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 27, 2022

Department of Agriculture (USDA) has raised its 2022 food inflation forecasts again reports Jim Wiesemeyer ( @Jim_Wiesemeyer ).[1] 1] This means today’s grocery food price hikes are the highest in 42 Years. ”[2] Their research found, “Consumer prices for food, personal care, and household items are up 13.9%

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

As you bring a consumer into the relationship, Reily admonishes, “Make sure that [the relationship is] genuine, and is something consumers actually want, versus something the brand wants them to do. Reily explains, “Realize that a d-to-c strategy is not necessarily exchanging goods for money. .”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

While time slot management applications work as a stand-alone application, it is more valuable when it is integrated into with other applications on a common platform such as warehouse- and yard management or visibility solutions. If “the forecast is always wrong,” is improving forecast accuracy even the solution to our demand planning woes?

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Logility

JULY 4, 2018

Of course there was always the abundance of kid friendly foods like hot dogs, hamburgers, popsicles, watermelon (and the ensuing watermelon seed spitting distance contest), salty chips of all kinds, and lots of sugary drinks. Procurement and manufacturing plans need to be created and executed based on these forecasts.

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Logility

JULY 3, 2018

Of course there was always the abundance of kid friendly foods like hot dogs, hamburgers, popsicles, watermelon (and the ensuing watermelon seed spitting distance contest), salty chips of all kinds, and lots of sugary drinks. Procurement and manufacturing plans need to be created and executed based on these forecasts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2021

Truck driving shortage impacting cost of goods. The figure includes Panasonic’s purchase of the remaining 80 percent of shares in Blue Yonder for $5.6 Increased demand for consumer goods, especially as the pandemic has lingered on, are exacerbating the capacity crunch. billion, plus debt repayment.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

7 KPIs Your Procurement Team May Be Ignoring! But, when my mom was buying a new vehicle, she didn’t decide to scrap the vehicle from 1993 and purchase one from 1995. Procurement is a business function that has undergone a lot of change in the last few years. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 5, 2023

STANDARD ASSESSMENT THESIS for Retailers The Sustainability Insight System (THESIS), created by The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) and powered by SupplyShift, is a science-based performance management system helping retailers transform the consumer goods industry to deliver more sustainable consumer products.

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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.

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Logility

JULY 20, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to be sure you’re equipping your organization with the right demand planning software. When you choose the right solution, you can stay ahead of fluctuations in customer demand, achieve high levels of forecast accuracy, handle seasonality, and drive collaboration across supply chain stakeholders.

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SupplyPike

JUNE 15, 2020

Types of Consumer Goods. Consumer goods are items meant to be consumed every day. Food and non-food items fall into this category. There are two types of consumer goods: fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and slow-moving consumer goods (SMCG). Who can be a CPG?

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 29, 2021

He writes, “The pandemic has been tough on many businesses, but that hasn’t been the case for the makers of household cleaners and shelf-stable food. Consumer Packaged Goods Trends. Hiebert reports, “The pandemic has altered not just what types of food people buy, but how they buy it. Rise in e-commerce.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 30, 2023

Both consumers and enterprises in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector are taking notice. Analysts at NielsenIQ observe, “Positive consumer sentiment toward sustainability has been growing for more than a decade, but the impact of purchasing preferences has yet to inspire a green revolution within the retail industry.

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Unleashed

MARCH 13, 2019

We’ll highlight a few of the common inventory management problems facing business owners and discuss how they can be mitigated with practical solutions. It is a multifaceted tool that will support many new inventory solutions in your warehouse. One of these solutions provides help to decrease dead stock. Human error.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

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. Low-cost country sourcing is a procurement strategy that falls under a broad category of procurement efforts called global sourcing.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Mass customisation is also known as: Made-to-order Built-to-order Increasingly popular in the retail goods sector – but also used in the automotive, software and finance sectors – mass customisation allows customers to purchase a product that is more ‘them’. What about mass customisation in software?

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

The diamond and gold, tea and coffee, beverage, food, and automotive industries all have participants with blockchain applications under test, operating as pilots, or implemented as digital solutions to improve supply chain operations. So how well is blockchain living up to commercial and organizational expectations?

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Kroger collaborates with thousands of food and beverage, health, beauty, and personal care companies to service roughly 2,800 stores. If you’re one of these food & beverage companies or play in the general merchandise health and beauty care (GM/HBC) space, Kroger is likely one of your best clients.

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Provenance

APRIL 10, 2019

“For every $1 spent on food, society pays $2 in health, environmental, and economic costs” (Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation ). The comprehensive report, “Cities and Circular Economy for Food” from the Ellen Macarthur Foundation, looks to address key challenges created by the food industry today: Annual costs of $5.7

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QAD

JUNE 16, 2021

As manufacturing and supply chains scale to meet larger global needs, real-time data and software systems allow manufacturers to automate processes and make smart data-driven decisions. Two commonly implemented software systems are ERP (enterprise resource planning) and MRP (material requirements planning). What is an MRP System?

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 25, 2023

Tomorrow, 26 April 2023, is international Stop Food Waste Day. According the Stop Food Waste Day website , “Stop Food Waste Day is the largest single day of action in the fight against food waste. Food waste only exacerbates the challenge — and it’s everywhere. ” Why all the fuss?

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

There are growing worries about global food security. Earlier this year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, stated, “This year’s food crisis is about lack of access. Next year’s could be about lack of food.”[1] ”[1] When lack of food is a concern, food waste should also be a concern.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 13, 2020

In fact, people in developed nations generally take the food supply chain for granted. When the novel coronavirus started spreading around the world, people started worrying about how it would affect their ability to obtain food. Pandemic impacts on the food supply chain. And consumer purchasing patterns are changing rapidly.

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crisp

APRIL 21, 2023

For Earth Day, we spoke with Crisp customers (and B Corps) Good Food for Good and Purely Elizabeth to learn about the global B Corp movement and what it means to be a mission-driven CPG brand. The certified B Corp makes organic, better-for-you packaged sauces and donates a meal to those in need with every purchase.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 22, 2022

CEO Doug McMillon indicated at the time that consumers were being impacted by the effects of high inflation and were purchasing more affordable food and groceries, shunning discretionary purchases. Executives indicated a swift reversal of shopper buying behaviors continuing, with even less demand for discretionary goods.

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QAD

MAY 19, 2021

While spreadsheets and manually tracked processes can help organize internal processes in the early days of any business, manufacturers and suppliers often turn to enterprise software like ERP or CRM to help scale their business. Food and Beverage. Retail and Consumer Goods. But when do you need ERP and CRM? What is ERP?

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Logility

MARCH 30, 2020

For the first time in history, shelves of stores across the globe that sell food, beverage and other fast-moving consumer goods (including toilet paper, hand sanitizer and cleaning products) are nearly empty. Looking back a few months, no one could have predicted the current state of the global supply chain.

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Locus

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Fuelled by a strong return to normalcy, ‘revenge festivities’ is a simmering trend that picked up during this Navratri in India, leading to a 15% spike in FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) sales with kirana stores stocking up 18% more. retail and food services sales for September 2022 stood at $684.0 billion, which was an 8.2%

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Here we will discuss the four main components of supply chain traceability: raw material tracking, production tracking, distribution tracking, and consumer tracking. Consumer Tracking Consumer tracking involves tracking the movement of a product after it has been purchased by a customer.

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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. This can lead to stockouts, lost sales, and increased costs.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 31, 2019

Procurement – the effective purchasing of raw materials, back-office goods and professional services – as well as Logistics – the orchestration of the movement of those goods – might not seem to be as important as sales, marketing, R&D or finance at first blush.

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