Consumer Packaged Goods

Kellogg Is the Latest Food Company Looking to Shed Brands

November 14, 2018

Kellogg is looking for buyers of its cookies and fruit snacks businesses as the cereal maker seeks to refocus on the fast-growing parts of its business.

A Tale of 3 Supply Chains

November 13, 2018

Elementum

Why Companies Screw Up Digitization

November 13, 2018

Elementum

Orchestrating Your Supply Chain to Drive Availability

November 13, 2018

Elementum

Asian Grocers in U.S. Are Bearing the Brunt of China Trade War

November 12, 2018

Bloomberg

Asian-focused retailers are particularly vulnerable to President Donald Trump’s escalating tariffs, including the latest round in September covering $200bn of imports from the Middle Kingdom.

Coty CEO Is Frustrated With Supply Chain Snags at Beauty Brands

November 8, 2018

Bloomberg

Coty Inc. suffered multiple disruptions to its supply chain in Europe and North America that hindered the beauty giant’s operations and stifled sales last quarter.

Automating Information Helps Logistics Co. Optimize Its Contract Packaging Supply Chain

November 7, 2018

Nulogy Corporation

Challenge: A global logistics company’s contract packaging operations relied on a paper-based system. Outdated processes increased complexity, response time for track-and-trace requests, and errors from manual data entry.

Think Tank

Winter (Shopping) Is Coming. Are You Prepared?

November 7, 2018

Sean McCartney, SCB Contributor

When the days get shorter and the weather gets colder, retailers have one thing on their minds: the peak-season holiday shopping rush.

Packages Delivered Via Robot? Now There’s an App for That.

November 6, 2018

The Washington Post

Starship Technologies plans to broaden its delivery service beyond food to include packages, a move that led it to declare itself “the world’s first robot package delivery service.”

'Performance Follows Culture': IBP Helps Strengthen Cultural Footing

November 1, 2018

Oliver Wight Americas

Challenge: A mobile-device case manufacturer was experiencing astronomical growth at a breakneck pace. Without enough resources to serve customers, the company’s core value of integrity was at stake.

Consumer Packaged Goods

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the consumer packaged goods industry. Learn how consumer packaged goods companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.