Category: CPG

Unplanned downtime can cost consumer-goods manufacturers millions each year. Production-line disruptions often create ripple effects throughout supply chains, reducing inventory and negatively affecting the customer experience. While advancements in monitoring and predictive maintenance solutions have helped manufacturers reduce downtime, they still need to act quickly when an unplanned disruption occurs. Manufacturers also need solutions to […]

Traeger Grills, a pioneer in wood-pellet grilling technology, revolutionizes outdoor cooking by combining traditional wood-fired flavor with modern, smart connectivity. Its WiFIRE®-enabled grills and mobile app allow home cooks to monitor and control their grills remotely. This convenience helps users bring precision to grilling, smoking, baking, and BBQ. With hundreds of thousands of connected devices […]

Companies across industries aim to deliver personalized customer experiences and optimized advertising campaigns by resolving customer identities. However, being able to reliably match records across fragmented, inconsistent, and often messy datasets can be hard and complicated. Organizations using traditional rule-based matching techniques to help match exact records often miss valuable connections due to slight variations […]

With physical stores still accounting for 80 percent of sales, the pressure to optimize in-store operations has never been more intense. The rise of ecommerce hasn’t just changed shopping habits—it’s created an urgent need for physical stores to deliver smarter, more efficient store experiences while reducing their technology footprint. Physical store companies commonly face the […]

When it comes to long-term success, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies have a lot to consider. They need to maintain brand control, improve profit margins, and find new ways to engage customers, among other things. The good news is that the advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has created many opportunities for CPG businesses to […]

Tapestry, a global luxury fashion holding company, oversees iconic brands such as Coach, Kate Spade New York, and Stuart Weitzman. With over 1,400 retail stores worldwide and more than 18,000 employees, Tapestry sits on a wealth of information that it could use to improve customer experiences and optimize its operations. The company needed an effective […]

Today, your garden variety order management system (OMS) might be slipping behind the times. We’re seeing a seed change in order management, orchestration, and advanced fulfillment. That change is, quite simply, the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into all aspects of the order life cycle. With AI participating in the order cycle, real-time inventory updates […]

Retail’s “Big Show” is back and bigger than ever. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is thrilled to return to the Javits Center in New York January 12-14, 2025. It’s going to be another big year of learning and networking with insights on the future of retail: connected, cutting-edge, and customer-obsessed. Join us at NRF 2025 at […]

While artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI remain a hotly debated topic, consumer goods companies seem to adopt these capabilities at lower rates. In a 2024 McKinsey global survey on AI, 71 percent of consumer goods leaders reported adopting AI for at least one business function. However, to gain a competitive advantage and unlock AI’s […]

While humans have been cooking with fire since their first appearance on Earth, we’ve come a long way from a slab of sabretooth meat hanging over a campfire. Like all corners of life, technology has evolved how we do things—and when it comes to cooking with fire, Traeger has led the charge on change. Established […]