
The Walmart Inflation Test (Part 1)
For all you CPG and food companies in the audience (not to mention manufacturers), it should be no surprise that many producers are beginning to pass along the impacts of commodity price inflation, longer lead-times and in certain…
P&G – Where Revenue, Savings and Sustainability Go Hand-in-Hand (Part 3)
One area that many individuals tend not to lump in with supply chain sustainability initiatives is supplier diversity. But supplier diversity, which still falls under the same CSR umbrella as other sustainability programs in some companies — at leas…

Marketing Spend — The Straight Dope From the Spending Culprits (Part 3)
In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, I looked at a number of observations from a recent Advertising Age article examining how the marketing and agency world is looking at procurement’s involvement in marketing spend with equal degrees of fear, cynicism a…

P&G — Where Revenue, Savings and Sustainability Go Hand-in-Hand (Part 2)
In the first post in this series highlighting how P&G is not only improving its overall CSR profile but also driving savings and revenue by embracing sustainability at all levels in its supply chain — from retail displays to supplier management — I…