Data & Analytics

Alliance participants, including Coke, Kraft, and P&G among others, first convened in March 2010 to discuss the state of publicly available product data, and decided to form the alliance and work together to improve it.

There's no doubt that quickly and accurately unlocking insights from retailer data can yield enormous benefits for consumer goods firms. Here, the manufacturer of stationary products, lighters and shavers, explains how it had put an enterprise DSR to good use.

Both retailers and suppliers see the value of data sharing, but there is still a long way to go before benefits are realized. Proving there are exceptions to this rule, Kraft Foods, Delhaize America and Bozzuto's gathered to lend real-world context to the findings of the first annual Shared Data Study. Learn about their winning data sharing programs here.

Mergers and acquisitions have caused Foster's to have a mix of enterprise resource planning systems and different methods for defining and processing key business data, such as information on customers and products.

Doug Sloan, director of Supply Chain Operations for Unilever North America, reveals details of the company's journey to boost its demand sensing and inventory optimization capabilities globally.

One of the first companies to recognize the potential of the supermarket channel for fresh-cut flowers, Sunshine Bouquet will tap Retail Solutions to transform retailer data into actionable insights.

This week, IBM announced plans to acquire Netezza, a leader in data warehouse, analytic and monitoring appliances, for $1.7 billion. Are these companies well matched? And how is the acquisition going to impact the competitive data warehousing landscape? Here, bloggers and industry experts share their thoughts in this big deal.

Leveraging retailer downstream data both for visibility purposes but also to drive systematic improvements is a core strategy for Burt's Bees.