http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/By_Industry/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/default.htm Largely viewed as commodity businesses and facing the additional risk of limited growth and value creation potential, consumer goods providers must embrace several attributes that are critical to business performance. In fact, companies exhibiting these attributes over recent years have been able to outperform their peers. en-us Business http://www.accenture.com/NR/exeres/2F065061-8F0F-4E2E-AD5D-7E599AFE5275.htm Procter & Gamble (P&G) understands, better than most, that the path to long-term success is forged through the efforts, talents and skills of its global workforce. To that end, the company is committed to offering training and development opportunities to its employees throughout their careers. By maintaining and supporting P&G’s learning management system, Accenture is helping P&G deliver on this commitment and working to ensure that P&G people have access to the critical training necessary to help the company remain on the path to high performance. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:03:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/ProcterGambleeLearningProgram.htm Procter & Gamble (P&G) understands, better than most, that the path to long-term success is forged through the efforts, talents and skills of its global workforce. To that end, the company is committed to offering training and development opportunities to its employees throughout their careers. By maintaining and supporting P&G’s learning management system, Accenture is helping P&G deliver on this commitment and working to ensure that P&G people have access to the critical training necessary to help the company remain on the path to high performance. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:58:44 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/MengniuDairy.htm View our interactive credential Media Help Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:39:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/Developing-Tomorrow.htm The weak global economic environment is wreaking havoc upon many companies' bottom lines, and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are no exception. Consumers have adjusted their free-spending ways very quickly, so much so that item price is now the most important buying criteria for 87 percent of consumers. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:04:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/OptimizingHP.htm It's clear that a new approach to trade promotion management is needed—one that can help consumer packaged goods companies break the cycle of spending substantial sums of time and money on promotions and getting little to show for it in return. Such an approach must address some of the main obstacles to more effective trade promotion management—which include well-entrenched business practices and behaviors, data and technology limitations, and generally ineffective processes no longer relevant to today's complex and largely global consumer goods supply chain. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:50:15 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/APassageToIndia.htm When it comes to cracking the conundrum of the Indian consumer, the key to success is adaptability. The winners will be those who enter into the fabric of society and work with Indians as partners. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:07:39 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/MakeDecision.htm Informal networks can play a pivotal role in how organizational decisions are framed and executed. But they can also result in too much collaboration—the kind of lengthy and expensive decision making that can cost companies dearly in missed opportunities. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:26:15 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/TargetPractice.htm Consumer product innovation is often a hit-or-miss affair—but it doesn’t have to be. By letting customers and employees tell them what works and by aggressively culling what doesn’t, the industry’s high performers are scoring consistently well. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:47:53 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/MakeConsumerTradeDown.htm As discretionary spending all but disappears, companies must make adjustments in product mix, pricing, promotions and channel strategy to deliver the innovation today's customers value. By providing offerings with a clear range of desirable benefits and delivering them at the right price point, leading companies will be showing a clear way forward. Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:15:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/SpiritedPerformance.htm The lion's share of future value in this industry will go to a select group of companies that have unlocked value through a restructuring and reinvestment cycle—one that not only finds new sources of revenue but also makes existing revenues more profitable. Above all, they will develop a model that embraces all three major sectors of the business. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:12:57 GMT http://www.accenture.com/NR/exeres/2CAEED23-2A82-4141-B1D0-BF68429A22E6.htm Beyond economic factors, consumer goods and services companies face a host of competitive issues that require action now if they are going to increase shareholder returns today and tomorrow. Many still carry a burden of debt from past acquisitions. Some are freezing discretionary budgets, preparing for the worst even as they hope for the best. And all are affected by the volatility of raw material, energy and packaging costs. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:47:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/CGS-Building-Competitive-Stamina-Downturn.htm Beyond economic factors, consumer goods and services companies face a host of competitive issues that require action now if they are going to increase shareholder returns today and tomorrow. Many still carry a burden of debt from past acquisitions. Some are freezing discretionary budgets, preparing for the worst even as they hope for the best. And all are affected by the volatility of raw material, energy and packaging costs. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:30:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/RecipeforSuccess.htm This industry's high-performance businesses have turned category focus, incremental innovation, targeted marketing and R&D investment, and ruthless cost control into a formula that delivers tasty long-term shareholder value. Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:49:26 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/Channel-Optimization.htm Manufacturers of branded products are finding themselves in a value squeeze. Accenture believes that a solution to this challenge lies in channel optimization—a program that can help companies make better decisions about applying services and resources across the retail customer base to grow long-term profitability and, ultimately, achieve high performance. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:43:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/NR/exeres/27900AA9-E219-4AD1-B394-6DC0A1CD23EC.htm Asia Pacific, simply put, offers a powerhouse opportunity in the world of alcoholic beverages. Just look at the numbers. Around the globe, alcoholic beverages today are a trillion-dollar industry, growing at 2.6 percent a year. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:40:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/H-P-Beverages-Industry.htm Asia Pacific, simply put, offers a powerhouse opportunity in the world of alcoholic beverages. Just look at the numbers. Around the globe, alcoholic beverages today are a trillion-dollar industry, growing at 2.6 percent a year. Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:23:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/AchievingOptimization.htm Despite the significant impact that inventory management can have on a company’s ability to achieve high performance, many companies continue to rely on basic, ineffective inventory policies. Accenture outlines the benefits of a more sophisticated approach to inventory optimization and details the elements of such an approach. Tue, 26 May 2009 06:39:36 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/HR_Efficiency_Excellence.htm Compass Group PLC is the world's largest food service and hospitality organization, with annual food service revenues of approximately £11 billion (US$21 billion) and 400,000 employees in more than 90 countries. In the United Kingdom, Compass provides a range of food services for offices, factories, railway stations, airports, universities, schools, health care institutions, offshore and remote sites, retail stores and shopping malls, serving more than three million meals a day Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:33:39 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/Achieving-High-Performance.htm Accenture recently revisited and extended our 2006 research into high performance within the home and personal care segment to see if our original findings were still relevant. They were. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:40:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/NR/exeres/7F60B5D1-1CB6-45A3-AEA3-EF66917F9711.htm Accenture recently revisited and extended our 2006 research into high performance within the home and personal care segment to see if our original findings were still relevant. They were. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:18:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/TradePromotionManagement.htm Against ever growing competition in the consumer goods industry, P&G saw an opportunity to streamline its trade promotion management capabilities. Trade promotion management is typically a significant expense category. With such a significant investment, P&G needed a solution that would allow it to better measure the results of its promotions strategies. The solution needed to be able to consistently identify the most profitable tactics or decisions that would optimize promotion spending in the future. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:46:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/Heineken-Espana-SA.htm Heineken España S.A. (Heineken Spain) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Heineken N.V. Holdings. With 2008 revenues of over €14.0 billion (approximately $20.1 billion) and more than 50,000 employees, Heineken N.V. Holdings makes, sells and distributes more than 200 international premium, regional, local and specialty beers, making it the owner and manager of one of the globe’s leading portfolios of beer brands. Further, the holding company, which enjoys the widest international presence among global brewers through its worldwide network of distributors—and 125 breweries in more than 70 countries—is also one of the world’s leading brewers in terms of sales volume and profitability. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:47:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/CGS-Talent-Mgt.htm Acquiring and retaining talent has become a C-level agenda item for consumer goods and services companies for a variety of reasons. Few industries depend as much on talent to drive customer loyalty and, in turn, growth. And today’s sluggish global economy has opened possibilities for luring talent from other industries and geographies into the consumer goods fold. That’s the upside of the downturn. The downside: With financial strain impacting many companies, it is imperative for existing employees to contribute to the highest levels of performance possible. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:11:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/CGS-Sustainability.htm The sustainability challenge for any organization is to balance growth, profitability, operational and reputational risk, even as it strives to extend its global footprint and capture new consumers in important and growing emerging markets. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:13:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/CGS-Rapid-Sustained-Cost-Mgt.htm How do organizations gain advantage during times of economic turmoil? This question is uppermost in business leaders' minds today. Accenture’s ongoing research into High Performance Business and our experience in working with clients have yielded important insights into how high performers distinguish themselves. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:35:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/CGS-Integrated-Demand.htm According to Accenture research, high-performance businesses are much better—and faster—than their competitors at allocating resources and achieving superior return on investment. And that is largely because their approach to demand planning is highly sophisticated. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:48:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/CGS-Insight-Decision-Makinge.htm At a time when many companies offer similar products and use comparable technology, the ability to simulate and act upon analytical insight increases return on investment by enabling a clearer understanding of the investment priorities that best meet consumer need. To drive insight, consumer goods and services companies have augmented their technology and data management, but payoffs aren’t always realized. That’s often because the right people with the appropriate skills aren’t aligned to key processes which means that data comes into the company—but analysis and insight into customer needs aren’t driven out. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:02:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/ERP-Transformation.htm In today’s global environment, consumer goods and services companies need an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that supports the growth of business operations in both mature and emerging markets. Successful companies are running regional and global operations enabled by a common ERP footprint, which supports integrated business models, standardized processes and harmonized data. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:04:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/CGS-Demand-Generation.htm Today’s rapidly shifting consumer landscape makes it a must for consumer goods and services companies to integrate their sales and marketing information and key processes—gaining the flexibility that leads to real competitive advantage. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:27:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/CGS-Demand-Fulfillment.htm Consumer goods and services companies are increasingly global in their operations. This geographic expansion is driven by two primary forces: savings through low-cost sourcing of parts—materials and manufacturing that have stretched the value chain across regions and borders; and growth, particularly in emerging markets. But few industry players have been able to establish a global footprint that is also responsive to local needs—one that balances highly efficient demand fulfillment capabilities with cost optimization. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:53:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/CGS-Alliance-Partners.htm Accenture helps consumer goods and services companies achieve high performance by choosing the right partners and managing the collaborative environment successfully. To that end, Accenture has forged close relationships with some of the most important technology vendors in the consumer goods and services space, enabling our clients to obtain unprecedented access to the highest technological and support skills. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:01:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/AchievingTimes.htm We face a challenging environment. But while some organizations struggle to survive, others will emerge even stronger. Having worked for decades with the world’s most successful companies—through up cycles and down—Accenture has the experience to help you come out on top. Accenture brings a unique perspective and body of knowledge that can help you make and implement the best decisions. Read the insights from our research of how successful companies achieve high performance during times of economic turmoil. Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:33:12 GMT http://www.accenture.com/NR/exeres/4ED63F22-9E08-4705-B634-37A328549BE3.htm We face a challenging environment. But while some organizations struggle to survive, others will emerge even stronger. Having worked for decades with the world’s most successful companies—through up cycles and down—Accenture has the experience to help you come out on top. Accenture brings a unique perspective and body of knowledge that can help you make and implement the best decisions. Read the insights from our research of how successful companies achieve high performance during times of economic turmoil. Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:41:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/Commercial-Intelligence-Companies.htm Many consumer goods and services companies have invested in business intelligence systems in recent years to store and manage the vast amounts of data generated throughout the company, as well as to extract actionable insights from that data. Better systems, data that is more accurate and supporting data warehouses are necessary foundational tools for gathering and reporting data. However, companies armed with this business intelligence are still missing the opportunities to use the data to get the right products to the right locations at the right time, leading to loss of real return on their investments. Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:52:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/Achieving-Lessons-Masters.htm Whether run as an insourced or outsourced solution for common service delivery, shared services as a business model is here to stay. For several decades now, shared services has delivered impressive results for companies in terms of cost, quality, productivity, customer service and other key business metrics. Organizations have already seen that shared services works. Now, Accenture’s 2009 global shared services study, Achieving High Performance through Shared Services: Lessons from the Masters, shows that demand for expanding shared services’ scope and geographic reach has truly exploded. Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:23:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/UnileverHROutsourcing.htm Unilever is a leader in the food and personal care brands, with 12 brands that generate more than US$1 billion each in revenues. In a recent agreement, Accenture signed a seven-year contract to provide application outsourcing including applications development, implementation and support for Unilever across Europe. Wed, 23 May 2007 23:32:30 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/SupplyChainCollaboration.htm Since the early 1990s, consumer packaged goods companies have been implementing collaborative business programs with many of their top customers. Many of these programs have yielded specific and tangible benefits, yet a challenge remains in sustaining and scaling the processes and benefits across the enterprise. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:10:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/RespondModel.htm For consumers, few experiences prove more frustrating than going to a store in search of a favorite product and finding it is out of stock, or that a heavily promoted new product has not yet made it onto the shelves. The frustration is equally great for the retailer, and for that matter, all the way back through the supply chain to the manufacturer. Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:30:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/CustomerAcquisitionRetention.htm Leaders use sustainability to drive high performance by approaching their current sustainability challenges as an opportunity to get closer to customers and find new business opportunities. These organizations are poised to emerge as winners in an increasingly competitive business environment—even in the face of worldwide economic challenges. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:14:53 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/MartiniRossi.htm Accenture helped Martini & Rossi streamline its supply chain on a number of fronts. By leveraging the inherent functionality of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, the company has refined its Italian logistics system, given its sales force real-time access to its systems and largely automated a complex pricing regime with retailers. Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:00:11 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/NewOrganization.htm New Zealand’s Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd. occupies a unique position in the worldwide dairy market. The company exports 95 percent of its product—or the equivalent of more than 13 billion liters of milk each year—to a customer base that stretches across 140 countries. Fri, 22 May 2009 02:51:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/PricingOptimization.htm Yet economic uncertainty does not have to lead to a strategically barren series of price wars and round after round of random, desperate price cutting. Contrary to many managers’ expectations, not all pricing power is lost. If a company avoids the knee-jerk reactions that so many give in to when the economy slows, and replace rampant price cuts with more sound improvements in pricing efficiency, a recession can actually spur future profitability and market share growth. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:12:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/MengniuCredential.htm Wed, 06 May 2009 17:23:33 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/PortfolioCompanies.htm While most consumer packaged goods companies aim to optimize their portfolio and related processes, as well as identify products that should be discontinued or developed, their efforts may not yield optimum and sustainable results. Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:39:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/NR/exeres/CA0E399D-D69E-4F22-9320-3E279E9C1C31.htm High-performance businesses in the consumer goods and services industry fixate on value creation. Their strategies are grounded in discrete, measurable value drivers, and all their operations—from executive decision-making to global supply chains—are geared to meet those metrics. This capability—enterprise performance management—is identified by Accenture’s High Performance Business research as a strong contributor to mastery in the finance function and a distinguishing characteristic of a high-performance business. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:20:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/ValueCreationConsumerGoods.htm High-performance businesses in the consumer goods and services industry fixate on value creation. Their strategies are grounded in discrete, measurable value drivers, and all their operations—from executive decision-making to global supply chains—are geared to meet those metrics. This capability—enterprise performance management—is identified by Accenture’s High Performance Business research as a strong contributor to mastery in the finance function and a distinguishing characteristic of a high-performance business. Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:58:09 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/ProcterGamble.htm P&G saw an innovation opportunity in trade promotion. It believed it could achieve even greater benefits by accelerating the delivery of trade promotion management application upgrades and enhancements. Achieving this goal would require the company to create a Siebel CRM application development capability that would streamline and standardize the trade promotion management applications, improve productivity and lower P&G’s total cost of application ownership. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:41:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/APACHPBFoodNonAlcBevPoV.htm Asia Pacific’s rising power and importance in the world economy offer unprecedented opportunities for the consumer goods and services industry. Certainly that includes a generous share of business for the food and non-alcoholic beverages sector. After all, 60 percent of the world’s population lives in Asia Pacific. By 2020, that will mean three billion people, including 700 million new consumers. With the region’s booming economy and rising middle class, those consumers will be able to spend increasing sums of money, much of it on food and beverages. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:19:44 GMT http://www.accenture.com/NR/exeres/9194EDDB-DA47-42DB-BBE0-DD1A0EAB2074.htm Asia Pacific’s rising power and importance in the world economy offer unprecedented opportunities for the consumer goods and services industry. Certainly that includes a generous share of business for the food and non-alcoholic beverages sector. After all, 60 percent of the world’s population lives in Asia Pacific. By 2020, that will mean three billion people, including 700 million new consumers. With the region’s booming economy and rising middle class, those consumers will be able to spend increasing sums of money, much of it on food and beverages. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:07:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/SynchronizationPartnering.htm Research conducted by Accenture quantifies the benefits of global data synchronization for the first time, revealing that the advantages are likely to be even greater than initially projected. Lagging consumer goods companies must take advantage of early-adopter experience to kick-start their own programs, or risk being left behind. Tue, 08 May 2007 20:09:30 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/PernodRicardIntegration.htm To achieve the planned synergies from a complex merger, Pernod Ricard knew that integrating and streamlining its IT systems was vital. With Accenture's help, savings of 30 percent have been identified and the group's progress toward high performance materially advanced. Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:57:19 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/EnterpriseCompanies.htm High-performance businesses in the consumer goods and services industry fixate on value creation. Their strategies are grounded in discrete, measurable value drivers, and all their operations—from executive decision making to global supply chains—are geared to meet those metrics. This capability—enterprise performance management—is identified by Accenture’s High Performance Business research as a strong contributor to mastery in the finance function and a distinguishing characteristic of a high-performance business. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:14:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/HomePersonalCareIndustry.htm The rapid growth of the global market for home and personal care products offers tremendous opportunities for future value gains—in the neighborhood of US$230 billion over the next three or four years. Few regions offer more opportunities than Asia Pacific (APAC). Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:58:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/ManufactureMgntConsumerCo.htm While consumer packaged goods companies continue to enjoy increasing sales, a number of challenges and external pressures are causing deterioration in margins. Competition from private-label and other manufacturers, combined with shifting consumer habits, has limited consumer products manufacturers' ability to maintain margins with existing products or price increases, requiring increased promotional spend and new product introductions. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:42:00 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/ForecastCompanies.htm Consumer packaged goods companies introduce many new products and line extensions each year and most of these introductions are supported by trade promotions run with their retail customers. In fact, these events account for approximately 40 percent of annual product sales for manufacturers. Unfortunately, Accenture research and other studies reveal that retail level out-of-stocks increase significantly during promotions and new product introductions. This negatively affects consumer uptake as well as manufacturer-retailer relationships. Consequently, it is critical to overcome the challenge of predicting consumer demand for these products during promotions to drive category and sales growth. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:42:10 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/MasteringCompanies.htm Information is the lifeblood of global consumer packaged goods companies. Not only is it more critical than ever, it is also more difficult to manage, distribute and control. Data needs to be consistent-providing "one version of the truth"-across geographies and functions. Significant value is created and performance enhanced throughout an organization when high-quality data is available, governed and used to interact and operate differently. Numerous amounts of sales are lost every year due to incorrect prices or erroneous item numbers exchanged by trading partners. Worse yet, bad data delays time-to-shelf-dulling a company's competitive edge considerably resulting in losses in revenue and margin. Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:15:16 GMT http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/RSS_and_Podcasts/By_Industry/Consumer_Good_and_Services_RSS_Feed/SourcingManagement.htm High commodity prices as well as rising oil prices and transportation costs are undermining consumer packaged goods companies’ ability to maintain margins. In part, this is a function of not having a true understanding of their total cost of ownership and its impact on the extended supply chain. Global sourcing is one part of the solution and is a viable solution for consumer packaged goods companies that are willing to invest in improving the core components of their procurement operations. 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