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RFID in the Supply Chain: Improving Performance Through Greater Visibility

whitepaper A special section focuses on the recently announced RFID compliance requirements in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. This whitepaper offers an overview of RFID technology advances and the most relevant technology standards, before exploring...

Tags: rfid, supply, supply chain, rfid

[04 Apr 2008]

SAS Value Chain Analytics: At Last, Financial Transparency - The Evolution of Financial Analysis in the Retail/CPG Industry

whitepaper As this paper demonstrates, both activity-based costing and value chain analysis have their proper places in the retail/consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. The ongoing debate about the differences between activity-based costing and value chain...

Tags: business management

[31 Mar 2008]

Increased Forecast Accuracy Using SAP APO Demand Planning for Leading FMCG Giant

whitepaper The client, India's leading manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of packaged Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), lacked an efficient forecasting system. Existing systems provided a conflicting and disjointed perspective to manufacturing...

Tags: infrastructure management

[27 Mar 2008]

Improving Innovation Productivity in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

whitepaper Successful innovation is critically important to the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry and will largely define winners and losers. The rapidly growing phenomenon of Internet-based, interactive, collaborative communication has created an...

Tags: hr

[28 Feb 2008]

IBM Mid-sized Consumer Packaged Goods Executive Kit: How to stay relevant in a changing CPG marketplace

whitepaper Why take risks when you're already keeping up with market trends? Because there's more value up for grabs than you might think. Go beyond fine-tuning your static business model. This kit provides 5 key materials and new ways to help you position...

Tags: crm software, materials, risks, moment

[18 Feb 2008]

Photos: Retailers take stock with video tech

Photo The technology is currently ready to pilot and Accenture is in discussions with retailers and consumer packaged goods companies, which can lose up to 25 per cent of their investment in product compliance agreements by items being in the wrong place.

Tags: goods, credit, stock, retailers

[31 Jan 2008]

Procter & Gamble Creates a Collaborative Community

whitepaper Procter & Gamble (P&G) is one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer packaged goods. The company markets nearly 300 brands to approximately five billion consumers in more than 160 countries.

Tags: groupware - workflow

[14 Jan 2008]

IBM Mid-sized Consumer Packaged Goods Executive Kit: How to stay relevant in a changing CPG marketplace

whitepaper Why take risks when you're already keeping up with market trends? Because there's more value up for grabs than you might think. Go beyond fine-tuning your static business model. This kit provides 5 key materials and new ways to help you position...

Tags: materials, moment, risks, business model

[02 Jan 2008]

Surmounting mid-sized consumer packaged goods challenges

whitepaper Learn how IBM Software solutions for mid-sized consumer products manufacturers help you integrate all your business processes, so you can operate more efficiently and respond quickly to customer- or market-driven shifts in your business.

Tags: compliance, manufacturers, consumer, integrate

[12 Dec 2007]

Nielsen to outsource IT in $1.2bn deal

News Nielsen provides TV and internet audience measurement and analysis of consumer behaviour for the packaged goods and retail industries, as well as business publications and trade shows. Media and information company Nielsen is to spend $1.2bn over...

Tags: bpo, outsource, offshore

[19 Oct 2007]

Unilever CIO: Gender balance challenges in IT

News The consumer packaged goods giant could typify many UK companies finding it difficult to maintain the gender balance in its IT department. Retaining female IT staff is a greater challenge than keeping male team members as they progress up the...

Tags: hr, women, unilever

[15 Oct 2007]

Visible Breakthrough: Advantage Sales & Marketing Embraces New Market Opportunities

whitepaper Advantage Sales & Marketing LLC (ASM) is a leading provider of sales and marketing solutions to the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. ASM wanted a scalable, flexible IT infrastructure to empower business growth and ensure business continuity.

Tags: disaster recovery, marketing, recovery, consolidation

[02 Jun 2007]

Profiting From Promotions Analysis

whitepaper With the help of a case study from a major European market, the presenter shows how one Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturer has developed a systematic, computerised approach to analysing this data to extract key learnings on the...

Tags: knowledge and data management, effectiveness, profitability, programmes

[12 May 2007]

Three Terabyte Data Warehouse Set for Growth With SQL Server 2005

whitepaper CROSSMARK helps the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry refine marketing efforts by gathering vast amounts of Point-Of-Sale (POS) information into a data warehouse. As the company prepared to expand its biweekly POS data loads from 300 million...

Tags: warehouse, reporting, sql server, sql

[22 Feb 2007]

KidsFutures Uses SAS to Grow Futura Rewards Program

whitepaper Participating program partners, which include grocery retailers and packaged goods companies, will also benefit from the information created by SAS software, and they will be able to access customer information through online reports that will...

Tags: program, retailers, sas, rewards

[21 Feb 2007]

Quality Manufacturing: A Blockbuster Opportunity for Pharmaceuticals

whitepaper Decades of regulatory and industry standard practice in manufacturing are being reworked to help push operating efficiency in pharma closer to other "Normal" industries such as semiconductors, industrial chemicals and even consumer packaged goods.

Tags: manufacturing, efficiency, goods, consumer

[08 Feb 2007]

The Challenge of Global Data Synchronization

whitepaper This paper describes the coming paradigm shift in Data Quality Management (DQM) and explains how Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) enterprises can empower themselves to improve and maintain their critical master data in the era of global data standards.

Tags: standards, data quality, consumer packaged goods, points

[05 Feb 2007]

IBM eServer xSeries Provides a Key Ingredient in Campbell Soup Company's New Trade Funding Solution

whitepaper Campbell has been a leader in business process improvement for the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. It wanted to provide powerful and reliable servers on which to standardize applications for a new business critical, integrated, real-time...

Tags: x86-standard servers, microsoft windows, operating system, management system

[25 Jan 2007]

Yahoo! Q4 profits fatter than expected

News continues to be the leader in display advertising, with strong sales from financial services, consumer packaged goods makers and pharmaceutical companies, according to Semel. announced a reorganisation in which it aligned into three units...

Tags: yahoo

[24 Jan 2007]

Sun Shines on Automatic-ID

whitepaper The Auto-ID Center has been dominated by retailers and consumer packaged goods companies. Sun Microsystems was the first large, high-tech manufacturing company to join the center. The company actually got involved with RFID, even before the Auto-ID...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, rfid, johnson, auto id center

[15 Nov 2006]

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