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Inside the Top 25 Supply Chains
Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25 list for 2012 includes eight pure play consumer goods companies. Some are perennial leaders, like P&G. Others climbed the ranks with impressive supply chain transformations. Unilever, for example, broke into the top 10 this year, and Kimberly-Clark made its debut at No. 25.
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Americans Name Top Retailers in 2012
While a fickle economy forced many retailers into challenging periods of deep discounting, some top retail brands have stayed above the fray. In a recent survey of Americans about brands across several retail segments, Walgreens emerged as the first ever drugstore brand of the year; Target stores was top-ranked for second straight year; and Woot.com replaced Groupon as the best daily deal web site.
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2012 Standout SMBs
CGT connects you with nine standout small to mid-sized consumer goods companies that are hitting it off big with consumers. Some names you'll recognize, other you won't. Find out what they've been up to over the last year and what's they've got in store for the future.
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Looking Back: The Best Business & Tech Initiatives of 2011
To maximize growth opportunities, CG companies must think outside of the box. In 2011, CGT honored 15 companies that did just that with the 2011 Innovation, Business & Technology Awards. Click here to remember the standout technology and business initiatives that earned first-place accolades for Newell Rubbermaid, McCormick & Co., Kimberly-Clark, Goya Foods and Johnson & Johnson.
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IDC Assesses the State of Retailer/Supplier Collaboration
Are consumers ready and willing to shop? One month the answer seems to be "yes" and the next "maybe not". Here, two IDC directors — one from the manufacturing side and one from the retail side — talk about the state of collaboration between manufacturers and retailers.
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2012 Readers' Choice Survey
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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10 Predictions for Brand-Oriented Manufacturers
What will 2012 hold for Brand-Oriented Value Chain manufacturing supply chain organizations? How about intelligent innovation, Big Data dilemmas and social business, to name a few? Find out what other expectations IDC Manufacturing Insights has for consumer goods manufacturers in areas like supply chain, PLM, operations technology, IT, and more.
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Top 10 Manufacturing Supply Chain Predictions
The past five years have brought dramatic change to the manufacturing supply chain — more so, perhaps, than any other five-year period in recent memory. Find out the top 10 predictions IDC Manufacturing Insights has identified that will drive supply chain activity and IT investments for the year.
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2012 Readers' Choice: Supply Chain Execution
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: Demand Data Analytics
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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