E2E Value Chain Delving Into Digital Manufacturing & Operations For the first End-to-End Value Chain podcast episode of 2021, we’re taking a deep dive into digital manufacturing and operations. Tune in to hear insights from Tracey Countryman, Senior Managing Director, Industry X Manufacturing and Operations at Accenture, as she delves into this topic with the CGF’s E2E Director, Ruediger Hagedorn. The CGF and Accenture […] 
E2E Value Chain CGF End-to-End Value Chain Newsletter – Q4 2020 Check out the latest updates from our End-to-End Value Chain initiative at The Consumer Goods Forum. 
Product Data From Laggard To Leader: Scaling Digital Operations & Extracting Value It’s a tricky time for Manufacturers. Technological advances, global trade tensions and market evolutions and, most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic, have accelerated the shift to digital, end to end, from consumer to supply chain and operations. It all adds up to a tenuous time for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) leaders —and a compelling need to […] 
Product Data Containerised Data: Innovative CGF Peer-to-Peer DataPorts Protocol Successfully Tested The CGF’s Product Data Coalition of Action co-hosted the first virtual DataPorts pilot on 25th November, alongside CGF members SyncForce and Capgemini, with the aim of testing a new protocol for peer-to-peer data exchange. During the pilot, several suppliers, manufacturers and retailers showcased how data could be exchanged seamlessly in real time across different operating systems. […] 
E2E Value Chain COVID-19 Causes a Stutter Step in Sustainability Progress, What’s Next? Sustainability Then and Now Prior to the pandemic, consumers around the world were focused on sustainability; reuse and recyclables, organic and natural food products, to do their part in managing the effects of climate change. Millennials led the charge by voting with their wallets, challenging retailers and suppliers to provide sustainable products and packaging […] 
Product Data CGF Members Work to Improve Product Data, Reducing Supply Chain Costs and Ensuring Consumer Trust PARIS, 12th November 2020 – The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) announces five projects, as part of its Product Data Coalition of Action, that are designed to address two fundamental challenges in the industry’s data exchange processes. The projects, managed with the support of GS1, aim to improve the quality of product data and reduce inconsistencies […] 
E2E Value Chain End-to-End Value Chain | Close-up with Ruediger Hagedorn Learn more about The Consumer Goods Forum’s End-to-End Value Chain initiative and Product Data Coalition in this close-up video with director Ruediger Hagedorn. 
Product Data Increased Profits Driving Dynamic Pricing Adoption Dynamic pricing is on the cusp of wide-scale adoption across all types of retailers. Once a plaything of airlines and the travel industry, dynamic pricing has gone mainstream. A Bain & Company global survey of 1,700 business leaders revealed that 85% of company management believe they need to make better pricing decisions. However, only 15% […] Product Data CGF’s End-to-End Value Chain Director Ruediger Hagedorn Co-Hosts Academic & Business Partnership SCM for ECR Conference The CGF is delighted to have partnered with SCM-ECR Laboratory in the organisation of their annual conference that took place virtually on 22-23 of October, and to have contributed to the discussions on the Management of Digitisation in Supply Chain with Shoppers and Users. The conference, moderated by Professor Virgil Popa, Ph.D., Valahia University of […] 
E2E Value Chain E2E SpringBoard | The Virtual Frog Event | Visit the Virtual Environment The Consumer Goods Forum End-to-End Value Chain Initiative hosted a virtual SpringBoard in an exciting new platform. Watch the video to get a sense of the virtual environment the event took place in! 
E2E Value Chain Supply Chain Transparency, Reimagined In this episode, CGF’s Ruediger Hagedorn speaks to Trinanjan Gupta at TagOne, a blockchain empowered tech traceability platform, about the challenges in supply chain transparency and the role blockchain and cloud tech play in capturing and sharing data in food supply chains. Sign Up For More End-to-End Value Chain Podcasts iTunes Spotify 
E2E Value Chain Responsive Supply Chains In this episode of the End-to-End Value Chain podcast series, CGF’s Ruediger Hagedorn speaks to Rebecca Liao, Co-Founder and COO at Skuchain about the role deep-tier financing and blockchain play in achieving responsive supply chains. For more information, read the blog post Achieving a More Responsive Supply Chain. Sign Up For […] 
E2E Value Chain The Scientific Lifecycle Analysis Tool (LCA) as a Positive Force for Achieving Ambition 2030 P&G harnesses the scientific Lifecycle Analysis tool (LCA) as a positive force for achieving Ambition 2030 Over the course of 2020, the world, and the way we live in it, has changed. We’ve seen proof that when we act collectively, our actions have the ability to conserve, protect and even help recover our natural environment. […] E2E Value Chain Making Packaging Intelligent Through the Use of Digital Watermarks: A Deep Dive Into Project HolyGrail & the New Possibilities of HolyGrail2.0 HolyGrail is a collaborative effort designed to solve one of the largest obstacles facing plastic recycling – inefficient sorting at sorting and/or recycling facilities. In 2016, as P&G’s sustainable packaging expert, I worked with P&G to kick off a coalition of companies to pioneer HolyGrail in Europe under the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy […] 
E2E Value Chain CGF End-to-End Value Chain Newsletter – Q3 2020 Check out the latest updates from our End-to-End Value Chain initiative at The Consumer Goods Forum. 
