Category: Industries

Opportunity at the intersection of demand and supply Complexity and volatility characterized the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and retail industries even before the pandemic impacted all of us. According to a Boston Consulting Group study, the associated opportunity loss due to complex and volatile business is estimated to be 8–10 percent, and poor anticipation of demand […]

WirelessCar worked alongside Amazon Web Services (AWS) to commoditize connected vehicle services and turn its data into insights, digital services, and revenue. Connected vehicle services in any vehicle— not just premium vehicles—is becoming a new normal. Vehicles are producing a huge amount of sensor and user pattern data, and there is a shift of user […]

For consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies that sell finished goods on Amazon, improving demand forecasting can be a large step towards maximizing revenue. CPG companies must accurately forecast and anticipate variable product demand to provide sufficient time to manufacture and deliver products to Amazon’s fulfillment centers. Many CPG companies already use Amazon Vendor Central, yet […]

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are undergoing massive transformations on multiple fronts to cater to the demands of ever-changing consumer behavior, new supply chain practices, and increasing competition with new market entrants. A survey conducted by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) with global business leaders, whose companies underwent a transformation over the past five years, suggests […]

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is enabling accelerated digital transformation in many industries, and the power and utilities industry is no exception. Today, IIoT is transforming the way utilities operate to serve customers, optimize operational costs, and enhance the community they serve. One of the cornerstones in enabling this digital transformation is the ability […]

1. Introduction Equipment failure imposes an enormous burden on industry. It is estimated that unplanned downtime reduces plant productive capacity by between 5 and 20 percent and costs industrial manufacturers $50 billion annually. The cost to repair or replace equipment may be significant, but the true cost of unplanned equipment failure is its consequences. The […]

A staggering 83% of consumers believe businesses should actively be shaping their best practices around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, as based on a 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility Survey. Retailers are getting serious about slowing the effects of climate change by reducing their carbon footprints. Many are committed to net-zero emissions targets within the […]

Welcome back to the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series. Each month we look at five key considerations that FSI customers should focus on to help streamline cloud service approval for one particular service. Each of the five key considerations includes specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code that can be […]

Blog guest authored by Utsab Ray, Amir Alavi, Amit Dixit, Vandhana Krishnan, and Amir Bahmani from Stanford University. Genomics researchers often face challenges in accurately estimating the compute and memory resources required for their workloads as they work to migrate their data processing to the cloud. AWS cloud computing infrastructure offers scalable and cost-effective solutions […]

Introducing a digital blueprint cloud factory, scalable across the world. In this blog post, we discuss how Northvolt has approached the challenge of scaling next-gen connected factories in the cloud. We introduce a concept, called Cloud Factory Module, which consists of reusable pieces of cloud-infra for any Northvolt factory. This article explains who Northvolt is, […]