 In This Issue
January 2012 |
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| 2012 Readers' Choice Survey |
| 02/14/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman, Kara Romanow & Alarice Padilla |
| For the 12th year in a row, CGT handed the microphone over to our readers to identify their most valued technology solutions and service providers across 10 categories. Based on their uncensored opinions and real-world experiences, the results are honest indicators of how the industry is approaching technology adoption. |
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| 2012 Readers' Choice: Business Intelligence |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman, Kara Romanow & Alarice Padilla |
| The Top 8 providers of a point software solution or a software suite for Business Intelligence, including analytics, data warehousing, etc. |
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| 2012 Readers' Choice: Consulting |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman, Kara Romanow & Alarice Padilla |
| The Top 10 providers of strategic and tactical consulting services to the consumer goods industries. |
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| 2012 Readers' Choice: Customer Relationship Management |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman, Kara Romanow & Alarice Padilla |
| The Top 8 providers of an enterprise software suite specific to Customer Relationship Management, including marketing, salesforce automation, customer service, mobile technology, category management, etc. |
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| 2012 Readers' Choice: Demand Data Analytics |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman, Kara Romanow & Alarice Padilla |
| The Top 10 providers of a point software solution or a software suite for the cleansing, analysis and integration of downstream demand data, including POS, syndicated, etc., for use by sales, marketing, supply chain operations and R&D. |
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| 2012 Readers' Choice: Editors' Picks |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman, Kara Romanow & Alarice Padilla |
| This year’s Readers’ Choice survey spans 10 categories, but some companies do not fit snugly into any one group. In response, we created the Editors’ Pick section to recognize solutions and service providers that are making a difference in the consumer goods industry and should be dually noted. |
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| 2012 Readers' Choice: Enterprise Resource Planning |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman, Kara Romanow & Alarice Padilla |
| The Top 5 providers of a complete suite of enterprise-wide ERP software, including Finance, HR, CRM, Supply Chain, PLM, etc. |
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| 2012 Readers' Choice: New Product Development & Introduction |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman, Kara Romanow & Alarice Padilla |
| The Top 10 providers of a suite of software application or point solution for product management, including new product development, formulation, packaging, introduction and launch. |
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| 2012 Readers' Choice: Outsourcing |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman, Kara Romanow & Alarice Padilla |
| The Top 10 providers of business outsourcing services to the consumer goods industry. |
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| 2012 Readers' Choice: Supply Chain Execution |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman, Kara Romanow & Alarice Padilla |
| The Top 10 providers of a suite of software or point solution for Supply Chain Execution, including warehouse management, transportation management, shipping management, load optimization, etc. |
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| 2012 Readers' Choice: Supply Chain Planning |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman, Kara Romanow & Alarice Padilla |
| The Top 5 providers of a suite of software or point solution for Supply Chain Planning, including demand forecasting, distribution, inventory optimization, etc. |
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| 2012 Readers' Choice: Trade Promotion Management |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman, Kara Romanow & Alarice Padilla |
| The Top 8 providers of a software solution for trade promotion effectiveness, including traditional TPM, promotion analytics, price management, trade promotion optimization, etc. |
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| Editor's Note: |
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| Great Expectations |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alliston Ackerman |
| CGT Executive Editor Alliston Ackerman gives you a sneak peek into the trends and topics discussed in this month's issue. |
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| Insights: |
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| Private Label: Collaborate, Not Confront |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: : Robert Berkey, Senior Manager, Accenture Consumer Goods & Services |
| Can CPG manufacturers and retailers with private-label ranges collaborate in their efforts to attract the same consumer? Counterintuitive though that proposition may appear, the real question is “can they afford not to?” |
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| Custom Research: |
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| Leveraging Customer Demand Signals |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: Kara Romanow |
| This month, CGT partners with JDA Software Group to bring you a different perspective on downstream data initiatives: The retailer’s side of the story. |
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| The Pulse: |
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| Avon Searches for New CEO |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: Alarice Padilla |
| Andrea Jung will continue as company chairman while the company conducts a search for new CEO. |
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| Moms Inspire Kimberly-Clark |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: Alarice Padilla |
| Huggies' MomInspired grant program provides seed capital and resources to help fund women-owned business startups and new product innovations inspired by personal motherhood challenges and experiences. |
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| Starbucks Grows in China |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: By Alarice Padilla |
| The company continues its growth momentum in fiscal 2012 to achieve its goal to serve customers through 1,500 stores in Mainland China by 2015. |
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| Between the Lines: |
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| Next Generation ERP |
| 02/01/2012 |
| Author: Albert Guffanti |
| 2011 has been a pivotal year for ERP software. A new generation of solutions has emerged. Michael Griffiths, Microsoft Business Solutions’ global retail & distribution product director, explains how these systems are putting powerful yet cost-effective capabilities into the grasp of CG companies. |
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