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With All the Research, Innovation at Hand, CPG Companies Largely Clueless Which Products Will Succeed
Consumer packaged goods companies have a big problem: They have almost no idea which of their new products will end up being popular with consumers. Despite big data, despite a decade of heavy investment in innovation, despite chief innovation officers and efficient R&D, failure rates for new products have hovered at 60 percent for years. Two-thirds of new product concepts don't even launch.
Research Says Global GDP Growth Rate May Drop Almost 40 Percent Over Next 50 Years
For the last 50 years, the world economy has benefited from a demographic boom that has contributed 1.8 percent to average annual global GDP increases, helping to generate an unprecedented level of growth. This demographic headwind is coming to an end.
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Combined Procurement Helps Pharma Distributors Stay in the Black
One of the most powerful middleman industries in the global economy – pharmaceutical distributors – is emerging from more than a half-decade of difficult transition.
Political Upheaval, Cybercrime Top List of Supply Chain Risk Concerns
The globalization of today's economy means that businesses are more interconnected than ever, creating a greater risk of business interruption, supply chain disruption, and exposures that can quickly multiply.
Manufacturers Upbeat and Gearing Up to Hire More in 2015, Survey Says
Manufacturing executives like what they are seeing on their balance sheets, are increasingly confident about the U.S. economy and plan to do more hiring and operational spending in the year ahead, a new survey from PwC US reports.
Is China Manipulating Its Currency?
Is China guilty, as charged by U.S. traders, of keeping its currency artificially weak?
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CDM Media Announces Partnership with SupplyChainBrain
New Performance Protocol Simplifies RFID Tag Buying and Selling
You'd be forgiven for missing the most important development in RFID, or for dozing off if you did spot it. But earlier this month, GS1 announced the Tagged Item Performance Protocol (TIPP), a new approach to testing tags that simplifies life for retailers, suppliers and tag vendors, and ensures that tags will really work in the field.
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With Acquisition of SDI Group, Dematic Expands Clout in Order Fulfillment
Dematic Group, a supplier of integrated automated technology, software and services to optimize the supply chain, has acquired FSU Investments Limited, which holds a majority stake in SDI Group, a supplier of garment-on-hanger and flat sorter technology in Europe. Dematic intends to make an offer for the remaining share capital. The purchase of SDI Group Europe will expand Dematic's global order fulfillment offerings in apparel, retail and e-commerce markets.
Artificial Intelligence Meets Inventory Optimization
Inventory optimization vendors are starting to leverage artificial intelligence as a means to optimize complex supply chains for large stock holdings and multiple stocking locations, according to the Technology Value Matrix for Inventory Optimization released by Nucleus Research.
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HighJump Issues App for In-Store Fulfillment; Partners With Unata
HighJump Software Inc. has released HighJump Retail Advantage for in-store fulfillment.
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