Supply chains are getting increasingly more complex. Add to this the fact that consumers want more and more information about the products they buy. How can we obtain and store…
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Palm oil has a reputation as a “bad” product, but do we really know why this is, and where it’s used? And more importantly, can we do something about it?…
On June 24, 2016, the UK decided to exit the European Union (EU). Impacts are to come, but let’s evaluate what those could be in term of supply chain. …
The Consumer Goods Forum launches the Consumer Trust language with the Transparency Open API at the Cape Town Summit. One year ago, at the Consumer Goods Forum in…
Transparency is key in the market industry today. However, nobody can be transparent if they don’t collaborate with their partners, including suppliers, manufacturers and retailers. Collaboration is essential but cannot…
We attended Neo technology’s Neo4J graph database event GraphConnect in London a few days ago. As we mentioned in a previous post, we’ve been using graph technology from the beginning,…
Product, price, and quality used to be enough. Brands created products with good, better, best strategies targeting specific customer segments based on price and quality differences. Classifying customers and products…
“Fifty years ago, the average grocery store stocked about 200 items, of which 70 percent were grown, produced or processed within 100 miles of where they were eventually purchased. Today,…
