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CPG Companies Without Digital-Specific Strategies 'Face Stagnation and Share Loss'

March 16, 2016

Today's consumer packaged goods companies are facing a winner-take-all world in which about half the sales growth - more in certain categories and markets - is coming from digital channels. Companies have to earn their online market positions with new approaches and skills tailored to digital sales, says a report released by The Boston Consulting Group and the Grocery Manufacturers Association.

Exploiting Digital Business to Transform Consumer Products Companies

February 29, 2016

SupplyChainBrain

Analyst Insight: Digital business creates new opportunities for consumer packaged goods companies to transact directly to their end consumers. Digital business is information-enabled business that employs an abundance of new information in ways that better service customers. Bottom-line digital business offers the potential to transform the way that CPG companies interact with and serve their customers allowing them to create new operating models that tighten the bonds with their end consumer, which has the potential to transmogrify the CPG industry. - Dwight Klappich, Vice President, Supply Chain Research, Gartner

Pepsi's Sustainability Initiatives Reportedly Save Company $375M

September 30, 2015

PepsiCo's environmental sustainability programs saved the company more than $375m since its goals were established in 2010, according to Pepsi's 2014 sustainability report.

The 3D Printing Revolution: How It Will Affect Procurement Strategies

September 26, 2014

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

3D printing is one of the hottest technology developments in supply chain today. Is it for real?

SAS Issues Demand Signal Analytics Tool for CPG

March 11, 2014

SAS

SAS, a vendor of business analytics software and services, has created SAS for Demand Signal Analytics.

Customer-Centric Levers Can Release Value for Consumer Goods Industry, Report Finds

September 12, 2013

Boston Consulting Group

In the face of challenging economic headwinds, consumer goods manufacturers have focused on cutting costs and optimizing working capital. Those routes still offer opportunity, but recent analysis indicates that traditional assumptions regarding tradeoffs among costs, inventory and service don't always hold true, and leading companies are using new, customer-centric levers to unlock value. These actions could yield a potential value of nearly $50bn industrywide, according to research conducted by The Boston Consulting Group on behalf of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).

'Digital World' and 'Fight for Resources' Are Megatrends Affecting Future Value Chain

July 1, 2013

Consumer Goods Forum

A report from he Consumer Goods Forum and Capgemini calls for the consumer goods and retail industries to meet head on challenges posed by increasing digitalization and the availability of resources.

Report: CPG Companies, Retailers Shift Focus to 'New Rules of Consumer Engagement'

June 24, 2013

Grocery Manufacturers Association, PwC

Retailers and consumer packaged goods companies are dealing with new rules of consumer engagement as they seize opportunities from advanced technology and the digitally connected consumer, according to the 2013 Financial Performance Report by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and PwC US, titled Growth Strategies: Unlocking the Power of the Consumer.