Industry Insights

Cheryl Perkins, founder and president of Innovationedge, assesses how current trends are shining new light on the meaning of innovation.

Sustainability is one of the latest, perhaps most important, trends to impact the consumer products industry in many years. But what is its ultimate purpose, and why is it critical that we wholly embrace this social, environmental, and yes, business imperative?

Tips on how to build a foundation for the successful utilization of TPM

Global Commerce Initiative, Capgemini and representatives from 22 retail and consumer packaged goods companies share the results of their recent "Future Supply Chain" project.

Contributing author Simon Ellis, practice director, supply chain strategies for Manufacturing Insights, an IDC company, provides step by step instructions on how supply chain professionals can better sense and respond to massive amounts of data rather than become victim to it.

A quick scan of recent news accounts illustrates just how much the temperature within the consumer goods (CG) industry is rising toward the boiling point.

Ready or not, it is here to stay

People, process and communication are of prime importance