E2E Value Chain
Retail & CPG: Winning the Cost and Profitability Race in a Volatile and Uncertain Market
Today’s business landscape in the retail and CPG world is riddled with unprecedented global uncertainty. Inflationary pressures, logistical issues, foreign exchange and energy price rises – the variability and volatility in component costs have increased...
E2E Value Chain
Purposeful Shopping Can Be a Question Mark for CPGs — Is Data Transparency an Answer?
The pandemic accelerated changes already in motion. McKinsey coined “the next normal” to describe the Covid-spurred generational shift in how people live and shop and, most crucially, what they care about. Buyers today are doing...
E2E Value Chain
Building a Data Foundation to Help Democratise Data Analytics For CPGs
At a recent conference, I was struck by an admission of a data leader at a top 10 consumer goods company about the poor state of data in CPG. “Nobody has figured out master data...
E2E Value Chain
5 Retail-Consumer Products Trends to Watch in 2022
Retail struggling!? Not quite in 2021 according to IHL Group[1]. US Retail growth in 2021 through November was $831B USD. The growth for November alone was $91.1B USD. Total retail growth year to year is...
E2E Value Chain
Trends in the CPG Industry
In this episode of The Consumer Goods Forum’s End-to-End Value Chain (E2E) podcast series, Justin Honaman, Amazon’s Head of Worldwide Business Development, Consumer Products – Food & Beverage, has a lively discussion with E2E Director,...
E2E Value Chain
The Future of Ethical Commerce and Sustainability in Fast Moving Consumer Goods Companies (FMCG)
The UN World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainability as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Sustainability is therefore the process by...
Why Brands Must Master Marketplace Strategies to Win Consumers, and Not Focus on Mass Personalisation
Retail is on the cusp of entering Generation 5.0 (Retail 5.0), the next era of its evolution. In this new future phase of worldwide retail, growth for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands will be...
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...
E2E Value Chain
Artificial Intelligence is Accelerating Business-to-Consumer Response
I got an email recently from Amazon, that as a Prime member, I was now eligible for free grocery delivery, which previously cost $14.99/month with the AmazonFresh grocery delivery service. Amazon is rolling out...
Corporate
CGF Announces New Members for April 2021
PARIS, 29th April 2021 — The Consumer Goods Forum is delighted to announce the following new companies have joined our global membership community and, in doing so, have confirmed their commitment to our vision of...
E2E Value Chain
WinterComes Pilot Spotlight: TradeLens
In this episode of The Consumer Goods Forum’s End-to-End Value Chain (E2E) podcast, Mattias Praetorius, Global Head of FMCG, and Jeppe Kobbero, Senior TradeLens Product Manager at Maersk join to share insights on their TradeLens pilot project, featured...
Corporate
Online Global Growth of 163% Predicted By 2023, Adding $257bn to Food and Consumer Goods Industry
LONDON and PARIS, 5th June 2019 — Digital technologies are revolutionising the way the food and consumer goods industry operates and online sales are forecast to grow 163% by 2023 across major markets, according to a...
E2E Value Chain
Data and Analytics for CPGs
In this latest episode of the E2E Value Chain Podcast Series, we are joined by Amazon’s Justin Honaman for the second of our discussions on retail and CPG trends. In this chat, Justin talks to...
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...
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...
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...
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