Consumer Goods Technology - August 2017 - 2

CONTENTS
August

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CGT ADVISORY BOARDS
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

COVER STORY

WHO'S

WHO

Julia Anderson
Smithfield Foods

Jon Harding
Conair Corporation

Denny Belcastro
Kimberly-Clark

EJ Kenney
SAP

Tony Bender
Edgewell Personal Care

John Phillips
PepsiCo

Pam Brown
Del Monte Foods

Kevin Puppe
Johnson & Johnson

Justin Honaman
Accenture

Doug Rammel
BAI Suavecito

Constance Howlett
Estée Lauder

John Rossi

Michael Forhez
Oracle
Mike Gorshe
Accenture

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Steve Sigrist
Newell Brands
Swan Sit
Revlon

IN DATA & ANALYTICS

CGT continues its new Who's Who series
of editorial features focusing on the
people behind the systems and processes
that make consumer goods businesses
run eﬃciently. This month, we recognize
noteworthy executives who are developing
systems and processes that turn raw
data into business-improving and
sales-driving insights.

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Departments

Feature

03 E D I T O R ' S N O T E
Superstar Unicorns
The most daunting challenge is ﬁnding
those "unicorns": executives who can
look at data, see an insight and explain
it to management.

TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS GUIDE
Data & Analytics Solutions

10 For consumer goods companies these days, success is driven largely by their ability to eﬀectively
manage, analyze and mine insights from the tsunami of data ﬂowing into their organizations. To help
their eﬀorts, CGT presents a concise, comparative
19 S T R A I G H T T A L K
glimpse of 42 data & analytics solution providers.
If you think that developing an accurate,
Plus, our corresponding roundtable looks at the
long-term supply chain plan isn't worth
possibilities for "single view" data management,
the time and eﬀort that it takes, you
the promise of IoT technologies and potential
should probably think again, according
methods of driving actionable insight.
to this month's Straight Talk.

EDITORIAL
Kevin Barnes
Ferguson Enterprises
Tony Bender
Edgewell Personal Care
Rick Brindle
Mondelez International
Ann Dozier
Southern Wine & Spirits
Michael Ferrara
HairUWear
Jon Harding
Conair Corporation
Peter Hatch
Reynolds American Inc.
Service Co.
Chris Hobson
VF Corp.

Constance Howlett
The Estée Lauder
Companies, Inc.
Betsey Nohe
Morton Salt, Inc.
John Phillips
PepsiCo
Kevin Puppe
Johnson & Johnson
Doug Rammel
BAI Suavecito
Steve Sigrist
Newell Brands
Dan Woo
Nestlé USA
Filiz Yavuz
Perry Ellis
International

RESEARCH
Gene Alvarez
Gartner

Don Lanham
Hitachi Consulting

Lora Cecere
Supply Chain Insights

Meena Surti Patel
Cognizant

Michael Forhez
Oracle

Cheryl Perkins
Innovationedge LLC

Nona Cusick
Capgemini

Radha R
Mindtree

Kimberly Knickle
IDC

Steve Rosenstock
Clarkston Consulting

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