Category: CPG

Coca-Cola İçecek (CCI) is the world’s sixth largest bottler of Coke products. Headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, CCI brings some impressive stats: They manufacture 1.2 billion cases of drinks produced annually across 26 bottling plants with operations in 10 countries, including Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, and serve 400 million […]

In part one of this series of blog posts, Why CPGs and Logistics Vendors Need a Fleet Management Data Lake, we explained why CPGs and logistics vendors need a data lake for transportation and fleet management. To quickly recap, a data lake is an ideal way to store, manage, and analyze transportation and fleet data […]

Demand disruption has been a huge challenge for consumer packaged goods (CPG) supply chain management in 2020, and it will continue to be a big issue going forward. As we discussed in an earlier blog post, Data-driven Demand Planning: Managing Disruption in CPG with ML and Demand Sensing, one part of solving supply-chain demand disruption […]

Many consumer packaged goods (CPGs) companies have been eyeing a move into the direct-to-consumer (DTC) space as a way to boost sales, increase market share, and get closer to consumers. This shift to a DTC model means that most CPGs need to collect first-party data and, in many cases, overhaul or transform their website and […]

AWS and Noodle.ai are on a mission to help Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers solve the on time, in full (OTIF) dilemma that began in 2020. In our recent blog, How Retail/CPG Can Improve On-Time, In-Full (OTIF) Deliveries, we introduced the concept of OTIF and why it matters to CPGs. As put by Michael Connor, […]

Transportation is a critical piece of the puzzle for consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers. It’s important to deliver materials and component parts to manufacturing facilities and to transport finished goods to retailers and consumers. This means CPGs are impacted twice when transportation and logistics become a challenge. According to inboundlogistics.com, transportation is expected to be […]

The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented disruption. In a matter of days, our world turned upside down. As shelter-in-place lockdowns, mask mandates, and social distancing rules took hold, new patterns of consumption quickly emerged. Arguably, no industry felt the pandemic’s dramatic impact more than consumer packaged goods (CPG). However, leaders are forging ahead with resilience, tenacity, […]

The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented disruption. In a matter of days, our world turned upside down. As shelter-in-place lockdowns, mask mandates, and social distancing rules took hold, new patterns of consumption quickly emerged. Arguably, no industry felt the pandemic’s dramatic impact more than consumer packaged goods (CPG). However, leaders are forging ahead with resilience, tenacity, […]

Have you ever placed an ecommerce order and your package arrived late? Or maybe you received your package on time, but some items were missing. I’ve had a couple of these unsatisfactory ecommerce experiences recently. I ordered new Keen hiking shoes that I planned to use on a weekend getaway. Although the shoes were supposed […]

Since the COVID-19 pandemic we’ve seen a seismic shift around the world to online shopping and direct-to-consumer sales. Arguably, the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry felt this shift more than any other industry. According to Statista, “Retail websites generated almost 22 billion visits in June 2020, up from 16.07 billion global visits in January 2020.” […]