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Implementing Vistex Solutions By Focusing On The People Side Of Change

5 key concepts that strategically guide the process of implementing effective change management and ensuring its success, while prioritizing the well-being and engagement of your workforce.

October 26, 2023

Can You Afford Not To Invest In B2B Brand Equity?

Investing in B2B brand equity is crucial for the success and growth of retail consumer products businesses

October 8, 2023

It’s A VUCA World We Live In

What if AI could tell CPGs precisely how to optimize trade spend planning? In previous blogs, we have described how data science and analytics can help Consumer Products Ma...

July 11, 2023

CPGs Take A Hard Right Turn Down Digitalization Lane

Prioritize RGM opportunities created by your 21st century odyssey During the last couple of years, Consumer Products manufacturers have been exposed to new challenges. Thes...

July 6, 2023

Are You Ready To Skate To The Winners' Circle?

A CPG Revenue Growth Management blog series on optimization sophistication: advanced level. Moving to the advanced level of optimization sophistication is not an easy achiev...

May 3, 2023

Unraveling The Mystery: Trade Spend And Year-End Close

Tips to stay focused and identify your CPG trade spend liability Flashy reporting and dashboards are an easy way to get caught up in data, predictability and “what-if” scen...

April 3, 2023

Intermediate Sophistication May Be The Road Less Traveled In Your CPG Organization

A CPG Revenue Growth Management blog series on optimization sophistication: intermediate level In a previous blog, we talked about optimization at an entry level and the be...

March 13, 2023

Once The Be All, End All – Are BOGOs Really Working For You?

A CPG Revenue Growth Management blog series on optimization sophistication: entry level Like all industries, consumer packaged goods manufacturers are focused on Revenue Gr...

February 1, 2023

Looking for a needle in a haystack?

Discover the 5 benefits of crawling global web data In a recent blog, we talked about the 9 types of data to consider gathering for Revenue Growth Management and their impo...

January 24, 2023

Wrangling A Foodservice/B2B Solution Into A Retail TPM Solution

Is it possible to run retail promotion management and foodservice contract management in one place? Anyone who has worked with or for a consumer products manufacturer can t...

December 1, 2022

Topping The Agenda: Mastering The Data Challenge On The Road To Optimization

9 types of Consumer Product data to consider for predictive analytics It’s no surprise that the benefits resulting from digital transformation programs have been demonstrat...

October 4, 2022

Invalid CPG Claims Could Be Costing You a Ton – What You Need To Know

Reclaiming your claims may feel like you’re just shuffling papers or even getting cheated Loosely defined claim audit standards applied without consistent rigor can r...

August 9, 2022

It’s The Right Time To Try Something Different

Will your CPG promotional spending continue to underperform in the current environment? In the past couple of years, promotional activities have been reduced when compared ...

July 21, 2022

The Struggle Is Real

Revenue growth management during inflation and how to protect your margins. There's no doubt that price has always been a key component of RGM (Revenue Growth Management)...

April 21, 2022

Digital transformation journey will improve your 2022 RGM

Connecting The Digital Dots To Revenue Growth Management

What’s your digital transformation journey timeline? In the new fast-moving reality of our world, Consumer Goods manufacturers have had to face a great deal during the pand...

February 28, 2022

Steps to optimize your CPG ecommerce strategy

Back To The Store? 

Tips to optimize your 2022 CPG ecommerce strategy and retain healthy margins It is well known that ecommerce sales shot up 70% during the beginning of COVID. Grocery online...

January 28, 2022

A Front Row Seat 

3 retail industry trends for 2022 provoked by the pandemic that are upstaging decision-making The Retail Industry has had a front row seat in dealing with Covid-19 for near...

December 2, 2021

2022 manufacturers face supply chain problems and labor shortages

Figure It Out Or Lose Your Shirt

A look at how labor shortages are driving supply chain disruption and rising costs Consumer Products Manufacturers like you are facing multiple challenges: labor shortages,...

November 10, 2021

Trends in Digital Acceleration Retail Industry

What Are The 5 “Secret Clichés” For Success?

Key Factors in Digital Acceleration for Retail and Consumer Products While DT (Digital Transformation) may seem like an overused term, it is top of mind for CP manufacturer...

August 17, 2021

Foodservice Channels Digital Coupon Strategy

The Clash of the Coupons

The future is so redeeming As customers shifted from shopping in store to retailers’ ecommerce sites, digital coupon vs. paper coupon usage has also been impacted but to wh...

June 14, 2021

What's in store for CPG food and beverage manufacturers in 2021?

Food for thought While everyone is anxious to close or should I say, slam the door on 2020, there will certainly and unfortunately not be, a ringing in of immediate change ...

January 21, 2021

Incremental Volume, Promotion Planning, the Shift in CPG to Ecommerce and How to Contain the Fire

My observation is that CPG manufacturers are sometimes slow to change with the times. A large portion of CPG manufacturers recognized a growing shift in consumer shopping t...

January 13, 2021

What Does Your Top-Down and Bottom-Up Trade Plan Look Like in a COVID-19 World?

In the next few months, most retail and foodservice CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) manufacturers like you, will be starting their annual process for 2021 S&OP (Sales &am...

October 12, 2020

Developing your “Data Spine” through a centrally-trained data “Hub of Excellence”

Not everyone in your organization is a doctor, so why should we expect them to be? How much data do you need to identify an opportunity for a business decision? Recognizing...

April 1, 2020

How a Compliance Council Clears the Chaos and Boosts the Value of Your Policy Exception Strategy

Death by a Thousand Favors Customers challenge commercial policies daily with the goal of cutting costs with their trading partners. While holding to policies is always the...

October 29, 2019

Visibility and Transparency into Consumer Products

Visibility and Transparency – A Bird’s Eye View into Consumer Products

As long as I can remember, senior management within consumer products manufacturers have talked about achieving a working framework for sales planning and forecasting provi...

April 25, 2019