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Hormel Foods implemented Siebel Business Analytics and Siebel Consumer Goods to improve trade promotion management, customer relations, productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of marketing investments.

Retailers are challenged to be ever more responsive to consumer demand. Strategies, like customer-centricity and multi-channel convergence, put pressure on instore inventory, which then pressures the consumer goods supply chain to perform flawlessly.

As General Mills began planning a recent expansion to its corporate campus in Minneapolis, Minn., the company's IS team realized it was the perfect time to implement new functionality and performance into its existing HP ProCurve network.

Nestl employs close to 250,000 people and maintains factories or operations in almost every country in the world.

Georgia Pacific, one of the world's largest manufacturers of tissue, paper, packaging and other consumer products, selects ToolsGroup's DPM Inventory Optimization Solution to optimize customer service to a diverse customer base, while simultaneously reducing inventory and operating costs.

By the time you read this, academy award nominations have been announced or the announcement is only a few days away.

New Year celebrations typically come with inspirational stories of resolutions and the expectation of heartwarming endings and goals achieved.

Unlike water through its faucets, information did not always flow smoothly at bathroom fittings manufacturer Hansgrohe AG.