Tag: Supply Chain

A solution guidance to help direct store delivery, route sales, and field service teams take the fastest path Time spent in traffic is the penalty paid by all route sales representatives and field service technicians just to do their jobs. Saving drive time adds to employee morale, customer satisfaction, and company bottom lines. In this […]

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, […]

Blog Guest authored by Amey Rajput of the SmarTrust Business Unit at Tech Mahindra Having a trusted provenance for life saving drugs, like vaccines, is a must. Consumers today are more informed, active, and cautious. They question the authenticity of every product and service before buying or endorsing.  This has been amplified more so with […]

CPG organizations are learning how to consistently innovate and deploy new ideas faster by optimizing supply channels, identifying consumer trends, and utilizing various marketing and product positioning strategies at retail locations. This responsive approach to the market has helped to increase market share, consumer traction, and profitability for numerous brands and products. In today’s market, […]

Many of the latest trends in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry have centered around the supply chain, manufacturing, and customer execution aspect of solutions. Foundational to these solutions is data and analytics capabilities that enable innovation, advancement, and speed. Let’s explore how data and analytics have evolved for CPG companies, where we’re experiencing new patterns […]

In our previous blog, How to build a dynamic supply chain platform: a primer, we discussed how companies can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a dynamic supply chain that can proactively react to events and also provide complete visibility, communication, and data transfer. By collecting and analyzing near-real-time supply chain data, companies can […]

Overview of Trucking Detention Time Inbound detention time is the time spent loading supplier goods at the warehouse, and outbound detention time is the time spent unloading goods from the warehouse and onto destination delivery trucks. Lengthy detention times have put pressure on the trucking industry for years. This has caused serious consequences to both […]

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 consumption patterns 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, and […]

Introduction Digital transformation is not a buzzword anymore. In fact, the last 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic have upended the very nature of work to the extent that we are currently experiencing what many are calling the “Great Resignation.” The new normal is quite different; remote work is here to stay. If companies do […]

A couple of weeks ago at AWS re:Invent 2021, we announced more than 50 new products and services. If you have time, be sure to watch Adam Selipsky’s keynote address to hear major news, and also read the Top Announcement of AWS re:Invent 2021 blog post to learn even more details about some of our […]