CGT Online -- October 2007

Visit www.consumergoods.com to take advantage and register for interactive Web seminars, thought-leadership whitepapers, weekly news briefs and networking events.

 

 

Downstream data is being leveraged by visionary companies outside of the traditional confines of sales and marketing - whether it be point-of-sale data, transactional data or even RFID data and loyalty card data. Please join Consumer Goods Technology; Tony van der Hoek, director, Strategy & Business Solutions, The Coca-Cola Company; and Lora Cecere, research director, Consumer Products, AMR Research, at 2:00 p.m. ET on November 13 for a comprehensive online web seminar titled, "Downstream Data: Benefits Beyond Sales & Marketing". Together, they will explore how Coca-Cola and other consumer goods companies are implementing strategies to ensure that these critical demand insights are integrated into multiple disciplines, including sales, marketing, product innovation, supply chain and operations.

 

Visit consumergoods.webex.com for more information and to register.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sign up online to receive updates on the most buzz-worthy news affecting the consumer goods industry each week. Plus, read our Vantage Point articles for thought-leadership surrounding top-of-mind industry trends and best practices.

 

 

Visit our archives to read cover stories on Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark and Campbell Soup. Plus catch up on industry trends around RFID, Product Management, Supply and Demand Chain, Collaboration, Data Sync and more.

 

 

 

Helping to define the leaders in the consumer goods industry, this annual issue provides rankings by 2006 annual revenue of the Top 100 consumer goods companies. Our rankings are then broken down by major vertical markets such as Food, Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods, Footwear and Apparel, Health & Beauty Aids, Pharmaceuticals, Housewares and Appliances, and more. Also in November, CGT, RIS News and IDC Research present results from the 2007 Shared Strategy Study, a report that examines the degree of collaboration between manufacturers and retailers. It digs deeply into the state of manufacturer and retailer collaboration by analyzing the areas where firms work together, the technologies that they use to support collaboration, and the benefits and challenges of relying more and more on trading partners.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lora Cecere, Research Director, Consumer Products, AMR Research Tony van der Hoek, Director, Strategy & Business Solutions, The Coca-Cola Company

 

Downstream data, whether it be Point-of-Sale, transactional data, or RFID or loyalty card data, is being leveraged by visionary companies outside of the traditional confines of sales and marketing.

 

Please join Consumer Goods Technology and Tony van der Hoek, Director, Strategy & Business Solutions, The Coca-Cola Company, for a comprehensive online discussion as we explore how Coca-Cola is implementing strategies to ensure that these critical demand insights are integrated into multiple disciplines, including sales, marketing, product innovation, supply chain, and operations. Register today!

 

 

 

 

Mike Liard, Research Director, RFID & Contactless, ABI Research Roberta Teran, Associate Director-Supply Chain Innovation, Procter & Gamble

 

Today's ever-evolving value chain can cause consumer goods manufacturers to struggle with tracking materials and assets and meet the visibility and tracking requirements of their customers.

 

Once clunky, expensive and with a limited array of solution providers, modern RFID has progressed as prices have dropped, reliability and ease-of-integration has improved, and projects are driven by real-business value.

 

Join CGT and a panel of industry experts for an online discussion around using RFID as a part of your business strategy, including an RFID thought leader who will share successes with the initiative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lora Cecere, Research Director, Consumer Products, AMR Research Larry Kumor, VP, Enterprise Applications, The Scotts Company Greg Tadych, Director of Information Technology Services, Consumer Product Supply, Kimberly-Clark

 

Technology is a key component to empowering the vision and needs of an organization, and propelling that vision into action. Demand data, innovation, trade promotion, and data synchronization are just some of the timely technology-driven initiatives in today's challenging consumer goods industry.

 

Join CGT for this one-hour virtual roundtable discussion, featuring AMR's Lora Cecere and two leading CG executives, who will focus on recent research and provide insight on topics such as:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Krzysztof Kaziow, Project Manager, SAP APO PP/DS, Danone; Kimberly Knickle, Program Director, IT Strategies, Manufacturing Insights, IDC

 

High levels of service and operational efficiency can only be achieved through excellence in integrated planning and detailed scheduling. A committed SAP shop, Group DANONE, one of the world leaders in the food & beverage industry, is extending SAP APO PP/DS with ILOG's analytic application, Plant PowerOps. DANONE has provided its planners with a decision support tool able to plan and schedule both intermediate product and finished goods production; as well as to optimize production plans, balancing multiple goals.

 

In this presentation you will learn how DANONE has achieved the following results at its first implementation pilot site: