E2E Value Chain
Three Tips to Win the Last-Mile Delivery Planning Battle in Disruptive Times
It’s now more important than ever to excel in last mile delivery. In the current uncertain times, the majority of customers are house-bound – and they are relying more on home delivery services. This spike in home deliveries disrupts supply chains and increases planning complexity for retailers and express companies. These companies are increasingly pressured […]
Corporate
The Year Ahead for CGF China
In the Chinese Zodiac, the new year that started on 12th February is the Year of the Ox. The many qualities of the ox are believed to influence the year’s outcome: a symbol of hard work, positivity and honesty, the ox can bring long-awaited success and prosperity to 2021. The Consumer Goods Forum’s team […]
E2E Value Chain
7 Questions Away | Product Data Interview With Ethem Kamanlı, Migros Ticaret
The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) caught up with Ethem Kamanlı, Supply Chain Solutions Director at Migros Ticaret, to talk about his company’s experience in collaborating with the CGF’s End-to-End (E2E) Value Chain initiative and rolling out Product Data Coalition projects in Turkey. Get insights on their experience and how championing Product Data projects has enhanced […]
E2E Value Chain
Food Fraud: Impact of Counterfeits on Consumers’ Safety & Brand Reputation
With over 30% of shoppers saying they will shift at least some of their spending away from brick-and-mortar stores towards e-commerce, consumers are showing increased trust in online shopping for their groceries. In fact, the recent spike in consumer demand for fresh and frozen food in the e-commerce channel is expected to climb from nearly […]
E2E Value Chain
Digital Product Data Is The Future: A Case for Machine Learning
The online grocery industry hit a turning point in 2020. While the COVID-19 pandemic brought on the inevitable push towards eCommerce acceleration, the deeper wave was felt by systems and processes ill-equipped for agility and scale. In the past it was commonplace to have skepticism and internal resistance about eCommerce inside many brands, as brick […]
E2E Value Chain
Breaking Down Functional Silos and Harnessing the Power of Analytics to Design to Margin
Growing demand for personalisation, omnichannel, and responsible products is undeniable and is creating an inevitable and significant increase in innovation, operations, and pricing intricacies. Harnessing intelligence from the entire value chain to proactively manage and predict the cost/opportunity of this complexity is a new frontier which CPG companies need to master in order to achieve […]
Product Data
CGF Board Co-Chair Shares Migros Ticaret’s Product Data Journey in Turkey
The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) launched its Product Data Coalition of Action in 2020 to address weaknesses faced in today’s data exchange processes by ensuring that all products have a unique identification, that all IDs can be verified in real time, and that all brand owners, retailers and platforms follow the same Global Data Model […]
E2E Value Chain
There Is No Label That Stands Above Truth
Learn how emerging yet available technologies such as Optical Emission Spectroscopy (OES), image recognition, HF-RFID, and down the road mobile enabled smell or DNA, will combine to better inform consumers / shoppers at the point of purchase. In order to build a sustainable relationship of trust, quality will need to be proven through immediate […]
E2E Value Chain
Avoid Missed Sales Opportunities: Keeping Production Pipelines Fresh
Calavo Growers had long used spreadsheets to track opportunities with customers. With the move to remote working came a greater need for visibility and accountability to ensure smooth operations and better customer experience. When I first arrived at Calavo Growers over three and a half years ago, we did not have a system […]
E2E Value Chain
Spotlight on Design to Margin
In this episode of the CGF End-to-End (E2E) Value Chain podcast, E2E Director, Ruediger Hagedorn speaks to Accenture’s Global Managing Director – Supply Chain & Manufacturing Strategy Practice, Russ Rasmus. Russ takes a deep dive into Design to Margin ahead of the SpringBoard event sponsored by Accenture on this topic, taking place on 30 […]
E2E Value Chain
A Fork in The Road: Committing to Food Traceability in 2021
We are standing at the dawn of a trust revolution in the retail sector, in which food traceability becomes a global trend and consumers obtain visibility on the entire food journey. This transformation is compounded by the ever-increasing importance of health, safety and well-being concerns in society – accelerated further by the COVID-19 pandemic. As […]
E2E Value Chain
Growing the Joint Profit Pool of Retailers and Manufacturers in Europe
In Europe, modern trade retailers account for 40% to 80% of annual sales and gross profit for most consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs). Much of that profit is concentrated in four to five main customers in each country. A good year with one of these key customers typically translates into a good year for the […]
Product Data
How Accurate & Harmonised Product Data Streamlines Global Industry Operations & Builds Consumer Trust
Presently, it is near impossible to accurately estimate the number of products traded across global markets, and even more so to understand how many of them have unique identifiers and find each product’s history and associated details. Data inconsistencies lead to costly workarounds and manual alternations. For businesses, this can be harmful to operations and […]
End-to-End Value Chain Publishes Digital Manufacturing & Operations SpringBoard Executive Summary
The Consumer Goods Forum and Accenture hosted the first in a series of three unique virtual SpringBoard events on 19 January 2021. The event brought together senior supply chain, operations and product development executives to delve into the topic of digital manufacturing and operations. This comes at a time when it is more important than […]
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