Robotics/Automation

Supply Chain Planning
Supply Chain Investments to Continue, Plus 8 Key Areas of Growth From Gartner
Budgets may be tighter this year as consumer goods companies navigate a troubled economic climate, but it’s not keeping consumer goods companies from making major investments in their supply chain.
Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT: Do These Transformative Consumer Goods Use Cases Outweigh Concerns?
In this edited webinar transcript, Albert Guffanti, VP of the Retail Technology Group at Ensemble IQ, leads a discussion on the topic of generative AI, touching on use cases and reasons why the consumer goods industry should embrace the tech.
Cloud Architecture
Henkel To Shift Entire Digital Infrastructure to the Cloud
Henkel has announced plans to migrate fully to the cloud over the upcoming months.
Virtual Reality
Coty Launches Internal Upskilling Metaverse for Global Workforce
Beauty company Coty has stepped into the metaverse, launching a virtual campus designed to upskill its global workforce.
Robotics/Automation
How Unilever Expedites Product Innovation With AI, Automation, and Robots
Three robots are working alongside 250 R&D experts at Unilever’s 120,000-square-foot facility to help develop science-backed products through the power of automation. Learn more.
Robotics/Automation
PepsiCo’s John Phillips On Navigating the Post-Pandemic VUCA Era
John Phillips, PepsiCo senior VP, customer supply chain and go-to-market, presents ways to turn VUCA into opportunities and success in this radically shifted post-pandemic CPG environment.
Artificial Intelligence
SAS’ Reggie Townsend Talks Responsible AI and Data Ethics
Speaking at the most recent League of Leaders gathering SAS’ VP of data ethics, Reggie Townsend discussed how businesses today can harness the sociotechnical space while making sure there's ample space for the human to show up too.
Cloud Architecture
Unilever Becomes a Cloud-Only Enterprise Following Massive Migration
The company completed its migration in about 18 months. Learn how the organization will benefit.
Sponsored
Webinars
How Reckitt Maximizes E-commerce Sales through AI-Driven Targeting
On-Demand: Join us for a roundtable discussion with Imteaz Ahamed, Director of Performance Marketing of Nutrition at Reckitt, Sigmoid Senior Strategy Consultant Sundeep Kumar, and CGT Editor Maia Jenkins.
Digital Transformation
Q&A: Henkel's Dean General on Prioritizing IT Innovation Investments and a Digitally-Powered Supply Chain
Learn about their digital transformation investments across the supply chain — despite ongoing economic headwinds — and how these changes will trickle down to the end-consumer.
Personnel Moves
Consumer Goods Tech Jobs of the Future
CGT parsed through a wealth of workforce trends and leadership announcements from the last year, and spoke with a number of industry experts, to formulate a list of job titles we see emerging in the future.
Artificial Intelligence
Help Wanted: Fewer Fears, More Training With AI’s Impact On the Future of Work
One of the most pressing questions on the minds of consumer goods executives took center stage last week as the National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC) met to discuss the evolving state of U.S. artificial intelligence competitiveness and what AI means for the future of work.

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