Supply Chain Management

Henkel selects Datalliance VMI as the next-generation platform for its consumer goods Vendor Managed Inventory program.

By synchronizing from shelf to supplier, ScottsMiracle-Gro improves customer service and achieves annual supply chain savings.

Kimberly-Clark China works with Retail Solutions Inc., to improve product availability, uncover new business opportunities and drive sales at Walmart stores throughout China.

The acquisition of Evenex extends HighJump Softwares EDI capabilities into the EMEA region.

Lilly Pulitzer is expected to improve the shopping experience for its customers across channels and create a single view of customer transactions and inventory, with a solution from Manhattan Associates.

At the end of the day, manufacturing a consumer product comes down to selling, servicing and delivering.What product? How many units? Shipped by when? Which customers? On which terms? These are the kinds of questions that producers of consumer goods are generally expected to address on a more or less real-time basis.

As we enter the second half of the year, the editors of CGT revisited the headiness that you read most. What do they tell us? You love a good list, especially if it predicts consumer trends OR ranks competitive products. Let us know what you think of these articles in retrospect. Did market predictions made ring true? Do the leading products still lead? Did key consumer trends take off or taper off? And what do you expect in the second half of 2013?

More than 200 executives from leading consumer goods and retail organizations worked together to focus on how the industry can bring benefits to consumers through collaborative initiatives. The effort was triggered by the significant changes in society, consumer behavior, the environment and technology. In the end, two megatrends and three action plans emerged.