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Tag: CPG
Get Results in Just Three Weeks: Take the OTIF Challenge with Noodle.ai
You know the saying: Results speak louder than words. But fast results speak even louder. Which is why at AWS, we say speed and fast results are critical to business survival. With CPG leaders forging ahead with resilience, tenacity, and innovation, those continuing to innovate at speed are delivering crucial business results. And now, it’s […]
Retail Partner Conversations: How Retailers are Driving Enhanced Conversion, Loyalty, and Lifetime Value Through Real-time, Personalized Customer Engagement with Algonomy
The global retail industry is experiencing unprecedented disruption, but leading retailers are demonstrating resilience, tenacity, and a capacity for innovation. We’ve embarked on a series of conversations with executives from AWS Retail Competency Partners to showcase their leadership and innovation in these challenging times. In the latest installment of our AWS Retail Competency Partner Conversations […]
How Retail/CPG Can Improve On-Time, In-Full (OTIF) Deliveries
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 […]
How to Create a Modern CPG Data Architecture with Data Mesh
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.” […]
CPG Partner Conversations: Geospatial Analytics and Sustainability with Orbital Insight
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, […]
How to Predict Shipments’ Time of Delivery with Cloud-based Machine Learning Models
Transportation and logistics businesses have seen an upsurge in trade over the last few years, with increasing ecommerce and online sales driving demand. This welcome growth has, however, been accompanied with an ever-more demanding consumer looking for certainty and reliability in their service delivery alongside a more competitive landscape, forcing prices down with tightening margins. […]
Success Strategies for Moving to a Microservice Architecture in CPG
In my last blog post (Three Steps for Modernizing Your DTC Ecommerce Website), I shared three strategies for modernizing your direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce website: Lift and shift your DTC ecommerce website to AWS. Decompose your ecommerce website and rearchitect it with microservices. Move to serverless computing so you can focus on your business. Why Microservices […]
Three Steps for Modernizing Your DTC Ecommerce Website
I’ve spent more than 15 years working with many of the most innovative consumer brands to help them architect their ecommerce platforms. At AWS, my focus is helping consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies enhance customer experiences and gain operational efficiencies, especially with their direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce websites. CPG customers regularly ask how they can realize […]
CPG Partner Conversations: Customer Data Strategies with Treasure Data
The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented disruption, and 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 shopping quickly emerged. Arguably, no other industry felt the dramatic impact of the pandemic more than consumer packaged goods (CPG). However, leaders are forging ahead […]
Data-driven Demand Planning: Managing Disruption in CPG with ML and Demand Sensing
Even in normal times, demand volatility is a constant challenge for consumer packaged goods (CPG) supply chain management. But these are not normal times. The COVID-19 pandemic has upped the ante, completely disrupting supply chain planning. As unforeseen external factors trigger extreme consumer demand changes, multiple supply chain components in multiple locations are affected, and […]