Tag: IoT

Few companies break the mold in retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG). Even fewer are successful year after year, especially with global disruptions pressuring the industry for nearly three years and counting. What’s the secret to success? Recently, three leading industry analyst firms—Forrester, Gartner, and International Data Corporation (IDC)—have weighed in on this topic, citing Amazon Web […]

Mounting pressure on the supply chain isn’t anything new. But its impacts are giving us something else to talk about these days. Across industries, not just consumer packaged goods (CPG), we see an acceleration in new capabilities, with companies driving better decisions and spearheading greater innovation. Take smart factories, for example, where visionary consumer goods […]

Customers care about how their purchases affect the planet. They want to make buying decisions that they can feel good about. Retailers are offering new customer experiences using technology that informs a customer’s purchase and helps them be more impactful in their shopping. In a digital world, everything is at your fingertips. But behind every […]

Many Life Sciences organizations struggle with lab digitalization that can scale, automate data tasks, enable AI/ML, and create collaborative environments that support diverse R&D efforts. The AWS Digital Lab Strategy is a set of services, architectures, and partners to help take advantage of cloud scale and agility. Efforts to build digital lab capabilities seem to […]

Many people consider pets to be members of their family, and owners simply want to provide the best care for their furry friends. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted just how much we want and need pets for companionship during stressful times. With the spike in pet adoptions over the past two years, now 75% of U.S. […]

Achieving tasty, healthy, and sustainable hydration can’t be done without a technical overhaul—especially when solving the touchless challenge. Britvic, a UK-based soft drinks company, is the largest supplier of branded still soft drinks and the second largest supplier of branded carbonated soft drinks in the UK, as well as an industry leader in Brazil, Ireland, […]

– Using LoRaWAN to build up a smart water metering infrastructure – For water utilities around the world, aging infrastructure and technology have become an increasing problem. To actively manage the water system, getting information like consumption, pressure, and flow data in real time is essential. Of all the different components in the water system, […]

The importance of asset tracking Every day, Amazon.com receives millions of shipments from suppliers. A purchase order from Amazon to a supplier typically includes a large quantity of shipping containers, or assets, that will be delivered to various Amazon warehouses at different times. To determine if items are lost or misplaced in the large, complicated […]

A Customer Data Platform (CDP) for CPG manufacturers?! Yes. Let’s start by defining a Customer Data Platform (CDP): A CDP is a technology platform that creates a persistent, unified customer view (e.g., a single view of customer activity). Data is pulled from multiple sources, cleaned, and combined to create a single customer profile. For example, […]

The How We Built This blog series features conversations with C-suite executives that are building innovative restaurant technologies on AWS The recipe for restaurant recovery begins with efficient operations and satisfied customers. But inflation, rising food costs, and supply chain disruptions present daunting headwinds. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, foodservice employee turnover rates […]