Henkel eyes cost savings with streamlined supply chain
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 15, 2024
The Germany-based CPG has already reduced a number of production lines and cut roughly 100 contract manufacturers.
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Watch: Will Retail Supply Chain Challenges Get Worse Before They Get Better?
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 3, 2022
Better data sharing between retailers and CPG manufacturers can help overcome supply chain challenges, says Inna Kuznetsova, chief executive officer of 1010Data.
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FTSE 30 CPG Client – IT Procurement
Barkers Procurement
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Barkers were retained by a FTSE 30 CPG client to support its selection of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software and a MES Systems Integrator and the subsequent software licensing and implementation contract negotiations.
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Top Supply Chain Challenges for CPG companies in 2023
Solvoyo
MARCH 3, 2023
Commerce is global and regional at the same time, the world is getting smaller and more interconnected, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in this build-anywhere and sell-anywhere market. The post Top Supply Chain Challenges for CPG companies in 2023 appeared first on Solvoyo.
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Top Supply Chain Challenges for CPG companies in 2023
Solvoyo
MARCH 3, 2023
Commerce is global and regional at the same time, the world is getting smaller and more interconnected, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in this build-anywhere and sell-anywhere market. The post Top Supply Chain Challenges for CPG companies in 2023 appeared first on Solvoyo.
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Product quality issues hamper Conagra in Q1
Supply Chain Dive
OCTOBER 11, 2022
The CPG was forced to pause manufacturing on multiple lines when certain goods did not meet specifications.
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Top 5 Digital Supply Chain Challenges for CPG
Solvoyo
JULY 15, 2021
Decision-making at the Speed of Business The commerce is global and regional at the same time, the world is getting smaller and flatter, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in this build-anywhere and sell-anywhere market. The post Top 5 Digital Supply Chain Challenges for CPG appeared first on Solvoyo.
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Episode 78: Empowering Procurement to Create Broader Value with Brian Chaplin
Una
AUGUST 17, 2022
Brian has experience managing indirect procurement in manufacturing-centric industries like CPG, aerospace, and energy. Episode 77: Manufacturing Macrotrends and the Metaverse with Minesh Pore. Connect With Us. una.com | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube. Get new resources weekly! Subscribe to Unaversity.
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Over 60% of suppliers reveal they can’t do their best for big brands
HICX
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Over 500 suppliers – all of whom serve some of the biggest brands in the world across the CPG, FMCG, Aerospace and Defense and Energy sectors – shared how they perceive their most important customers. Findings show that for manufacturers, “customer-of-choice” is a status worth having. Read full article.
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CSR is Good for Business, an Independent Consulting Study Reports, but Official Targets & Policies are Lagging Behind
ivalua
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Survey participants included decision-makers in procurement in various industries, including CPG, finance, telecommunications, technology, and manufacturing/ automotive. The study began in March 2021 and was completed in August 2021. To read the full study, please visit: [link].
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Survey: Most Suppliers Experience “Operational Friction” When Serving Manufacturers
HICX
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
According to a survey conducted by HICX, a supplier experience platform provider, 61% of suppliers are struggling to put their best foot forward for major manufacturers, presenting an opportunity for brands to improve supplier experience and boost competitiveness. The “ Voice of the Supplier ” survey, released Sept.
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Ivalua Continues Global Expansion with New Office in Sydney, Australia
ivalua
MAY 14, 2019
Throughout his career, he has worked with clients across multiple industries including Real Estate, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Retail and Distribution, Oil, Manufacturing, CPG and Government industries within Australia , New Zealand , Europe and USA.
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61% of suppliers struggle to do their best for big brands
HICX
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
According to HICX’s new ‘Voice of the Supplier’ survey, 61% of suppliers are struggling to put their best foot forward for major manufacturers – presenting an opportunity for brands to improve supplier experience and boost competitiveness. Findings show that for manufacturers, “customer-of-choice” is a status worth having.
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Recapping new product announcements from Docusign Momentum 2024
Spend Matters
APRIL 16, 2024
Krakovsky also announced vertical-/industry-specific IAM applications, such as IAM for sales, customer experience, procurement, manufacturing, tech, retail, CPG and financial services. Users can simply search for systems in an app store-like interface to enable quicker, bidirectional data integrations.
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Ivalua Continues Global Expansion with New Office in Sydney, Australia
ivalua
MAY 14, 2019
Throughout his career, he has worked with clients across multiple industries including Real Estate, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Retail and Distribution, Oil, Manufacturing, CPG and Government industries within Australia , New Zealand , Europe and USA.
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Bye Bye Barry’s Bikes and Baking Powder – Supply Chain Upheaval Prompts Flight to Technology
Supply Chain Collaborator
JULY 22, 2020
This sea change in the beer industry has also had outsized consequences for the supply of CPG packaging (huge increase in demand) as well as for the manufacture of draft barrels (demand ground to a halt).
How foundation models can help make steel and cement production more sustainable
IBM Supply Chain Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2023
We have started deploying this technology in a large steel plant in India, a cement plant in Latin America and CPG manufacturing in North America. Ultimately, it’s about people: the operators in the plant must embrace it, the process engineers should love it, and the plant management must value it.
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Volumes are booming this holiday season as F&B, CPG and Retail work to keep shelves full
FourKites
DECEMBER 21, 2020
This massive uptick in e-commerce is, in turn, necessitating a change in the ways that manufacturers, distributors and retailers transport their wares to the end consumer, forcing them to rely more heavily on less-than-truckload and parcel shipments. Retail and Essentials Are Rallying.
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Process Excellence: A transformational lever to extreme automation
IBM Supply Chain Blog
APRIL 20, 2023
What do a Canadian energy company, a Dutch coffee retailer and a British multinational consumer packaged goods (CPG) company have in common right now? All are transforming their procurement operations by leveraging state-of-the-art process mining and intelligent automation technology. dollars annually in direct or indirect procurement.
Roadmap of Industry Groups – Your Complete Guide to Supply Chain Sustainability Collaboration
SupplyShift
JULY 23, 2021
Procurement and Supply Chain Aim-Prog r ess : This forum of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturers and suppliers promotes responsible sourcing practices and sustainable supply chains. The Consumer Goods Forum : The Consumer Goods Forum brings consumer goods retailers and manufacturers together globally to drive change.
Roadmap of Industry Groups – Your Complete Guide to Supply Chain Sustainability Collaboration
SupplyShift
JULY 23, 2021
Aim-Progress : This forum of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturers and suppliers promotes responsible sourcing practices and sustainable supply chains. The Consumer Good Forum brings consumer goods retailers and manufacturers together globally to drive change. Procurement and Supply Chain. Responsible Business Alliance (RBA).
From “Doing Digital” to Being Digital: How Decision Intelligence is Transforming Supply Chains
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MARCH 1, 2023
Our customers in life sciences, CPG, petrochemicals, high tech and other industries have moved from “human-in-the-loop” decision making (where users review the generated recommendations and manually accept them) to reorganizing their businesses to capitalize on real-time decision automation.
The Demand Sensing Revolution–A Webcast
The Network Effect
MAY 29, 2015
We’ll talk about how one of the world’s largest CPG companies is doing demand sensing at the world’s largest retailer…it’s a project that I’m personally involved in, and it’s sure to be an interesting discussion. Could Demand Sensing help your company?
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Will Consumer Goods Be Stronger from the Pandemic?
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
We all know and regularly purchase Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG, often also referred to as Consumer Packaged Goods, or CPG). No FMCG manufacturer can offer everything to all retailers, but with a dynamic strategy you can offer different resources to each retail client so they have better metrics to manage cost and efficiency.
The Smart Supply Chain in Action!
Supply Chain Game Changer
MARCH 16, 2021
We had a consumer packaged goods (CPG) customer for whom we would receive their coffee pods shipped in bulk from the manufacturers. Without I/T experts to create and implement the digital vision there is no technological capability to build a Smart Supply Chain.
Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Scott Cleaver, COO at ecobee!
Supply Chain Game Changer
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
The next 5 years were pivotal in my career as I was exposed to many other aspects of Supply Chain and Manufacturing. When I moved to Spin Master it was a whole new experience as I really had limited knowledge of the CPG industry and working with Retailers. What are some of your greatest achievements in the Supply Chain and in Business?
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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Scott Cleaver, COO at ecobee!
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
The next 5 years were pivotal in my career as I was exposed to many other aspects of Supply Chain and Manufacturing. When I moved to Spin Master it was a whole new experience as I really had limited knowledge of the CPG industry and working with Retailers. What are some of your greatest achievements in the Supply Chain and in Business?
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The Role of Managed Procurement Services in Supply Chain Optimization
Empowering CPO
JUNE 30, 2023
A global consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturer sought to transform its source-to-pay processes to improve focus on indirect spend, deliver savings, and advance its procurement capabilities. To illustrate the impact of managed procurement services on supply chain optimization, let’s consider a real-world example.
Shannon Hamilton on Authenticity and Bringing Diversity to Transportation & Logistics
Let's Talk Supply Chain
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Retail, CPG, and Manufacturing—all of it exposed me to the challenges across the supply chain and the need to foster ecosystems of companies that benefit from working together to solve their supply chain issues. .
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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #1
Supply Chain Trend
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Jim is a “ FOOD, BEVERAGE, CONSUMER PRODUCT GOODS (CPG) Management Professional (Retail and B-to-B Foodservice). As I worked for and was involved with various enterprises over my career, some manufacturing, some service related, retail, etc. In this week’s interview: Jim Biel. SCT: What needs to be done to reach that vision?
Seasoned Leadership in Action! An Interview with Paul Kretz, Head of SCM at Church & Dwight!
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 11, 2018
I started my career in Automotive parts manufacturing as a shift supervisor and can remember when my boss asked me to come off shift and become a master production scheduler. The site had been trying to fix it and were using the manufacturing engineering team to drive the improvements. Productivity was like 1 line an hour.
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Putting the “S” Back in the S&OP Planning Process
Supply Chain Opz
JANUARY 18, 2015
In this article, Dr. Marcel Zondag who is an expert in CPG industry will explain some ways to streamline the planning process. Sales & Operations Planning has been accepted more and more by both academia and practitioners as the way to balance demand and supply.
The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm
Supply Chain Trend
DECEMBER 22, 2023
However, for a manufacturer a price or promotional change might first need to be aligned with the customer. Think about this anecdotal example of a very large CPG with a portfolio of 25,000 SKUs with 800 planners for a certain geography, versus an mostly digitized online retailer with 5 million SKUs, 15 planners and 150 analysts.
Supply Chain Visibility – An Overcomplicated Challenge!
Supply Chain Game Changer
AUGUST 26, 2021
I’ve worked for major manufacturers in CPG, Automotive, and Defense Contracting, and I can honestly say that some of the largest organizations are nowhere near accomplishing this. This does not necessarily guarantee a complete failure of the customer’s manufacturing plan, but it can if the communication is not made.
Automated Planning Platform for Omni-Channel Operations
Solvoyo
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Consumer Electronics Manufacturer The consumer electronics manufacturer used an analytics platform to automate planning platform to support omni-channel operations. The post Automated Planning Platform for Omni-Channel Operations appeared first on Solvoyo.
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Why is Procurement spend data so messy?
Procurement Software
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Industrial Manufacturing In manufacturing businesses, it’s pretty normal that Procurement reports into Operations. It’s no coincidence that indirect spend is usually an afterthought, and consequently often a mess, in manufacturing businesses. Where does Procurement typically report into?
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Ambient Network Fulfillment & Transportation
Solvoyo
JANUARY 24, 2023
Fortune 100 Global CPG Company Ambient Network Fulfillment & Transportation Fortune 100 Global CPG Company ~1000Shipping Points 20.000+Shipments/Year 2 DCs Goals Smarter fulfillment decisions through advanced analytics Optimization to increase service level Automating daily fulfillment & transportation decisions with a goal of no-touch planning (..)
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How Can I Improve My Forecast Accuracy?
Supply Chain Action Blog
JULY 8, 2021
After a short stint in manufacturing process engineering in another industry, she got interested in the business side of things and moved into supply chain planning, starting in demand planning. This is a particular challenge in the retail and CPG industries. She got her bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering about five years ago.
The Titan Challenge
The Network Effect
JANUARY 30, 2016
Omnichannel, Customer Centricity and Crossborder Commerce are not 3 distinct areas, but rather, parts of an integrated strategy addressing the opportunities and threats in the tech era of retail, as well as CPG, manufacturing, distributors and wholesalers, and logistics and transportation service providers.
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Amazon Go and the Future of Sentient Buildings: An Analysis
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 4, 2018
The Amazon Go data should also have a lot of value to CPG manufacturers, as well as to Amazon’s own merchants, planners, and store designers.
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3 Steps for Making Digital Transformation Happen in Supply Chain Planning
Solvoyo
MAY 27, 2019
In the case of CPG companies, this could mean looking for ways to link the inter-related decisions along the supply chain such as sudden peaks in demand updating future forecasts and triggering automatically changes for supply, either in way of purchase orders or production plans as well as dynamically updating the distribution plans.
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