Consumer Packaged Goods

The Payoff of Customer Preference Planning

May 2, 2012

Gene Bornac, Product Manager Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Planning, Manhattan Associates

The days of planning based on history or store volume have gone the way of the buggy whip. It is no longer enough for buyers to arm themselves with a spreadsheet and a prayer. Omni-channel commerce requires companies to re-think their planning processes in order to profit. In this new retail environment, old paradigms have been shaken, replaced by much more complicated planning tools that answer the omni-channel commerce questions that can make or break a business.

JDA Software Releases 3D Virtualization, Retailer Assortment Tools

May 2, 2012

JDA Software Group Inc.

JDA Software Group Inc. has released JDA 3D, an application that provides integrated category optimization with three-dimensional virtualization, to enhance collaboration among retailers, distributors and manufacturers.

Tire Maker Uses RFID Technology to Track Components, Reduce Wastage

May 1, 2012

RFID Journal

The Continental Tire factory in Sarreguemines, France, has increased its production of tires from 33,000 tires per day to 38,000, thanks to a real-time location system it installed in September 2011 to track tire components. The RTLS has also helped the company reduce wastage of tire components, known as "semi products," by 20 percent.

Arkieva Software Implementation Helps Major Chemical Company Manage Recession

May 1, 2012

Challenge: A significant percentage of what this major chemical company manufactures is used in the automotive industry, and as a result they found demand dropping far below what any previous forecast could have predicted.

How Major Engines/Machinery Manufacturer Used Visibility to Reduce In-Transit Inventory By 15%

May 1, 2012

Challenge: Previously our client, one of the world's largest engines and machinery manufacturers, spent years trying to build systems and get more information from its service providers, before moving to the cloud with a pay as you go service - lower risk approach with better results.

Custom Modeling Identifies More Than One "Best Case" Scenario for Network Optimization

May 1, 2012

Challenge: A retailer with 4,400 independently owned and operated stores needed to optimize their distribution network, including 100 inbound source origins, 1.5 billion pounds per year shipped through 14 regional service and six consolidation centers, while maintaining 100 percent delivery within two days.

#1 Leading Chile Department Store Revolutionizes Supply Chain

May 1, 2012

Challenge: This retailer sought a collaborative supply chain execution platform that would create more cost-effective global logistics processes. The retailer used a single agent, based in Shanghai, who needed visibility into order and supplier milestones, in-transit shipments and trade document status.

Major Food Distributor Implements New WMS Using Bar Code Labels

May 1, 2012

Challenge: A major U.S. food manufacturer and distributor wanted to implement a new warehouse management system using bar code labels to track the movement of products within its warehouses and to customers. A difficult challenge for a 100,000 sq. ft. warehouse with 1,600 different products in inventory.

Warehouses Aren't Making Room for the Recovery

April 30, 2012

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

You could call inventory and warehouse space the twin evils of the supply chain. Both are big drags on the balance sheet. So it should come as no surprise that the two categories are lagging the recovery - or what's passing for one.

E-commerce to Be Large Part of Growing App Downloads for Tablets

April 30, 2012

ABI Research

Eighty percent of tablet app downloads will be for e-commerce, games, digital publishing and social networking by 2016.

Consumer Packaged Goods

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the consumer packaged goods industry. Learn how consumer packaged goods companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.