Blog Post Supply Chain Consumer Products Network Design Optimization: Is Your Supply Chain Built for the Future? During the Panama Canal drought in October 2023, many CPG, life sciences, and retail companies experienced up to three-week in ...
Case Study Consumer Products Food and Beverage Standardizing GS1 Labels and Streamlining Vendor Selection for a CPG Manufacturer In this standardizing GS1 labels case study, Clarkston Consulting recently supported a food manufacturer through a vendor selection. Read a ...
Blog Post Consumer Products Retail Considerations for Modernizing Your ERP For many businesses, ERP is the backbone to system operations. Modernizing an ERP involves transforming a business’s legacy ERP system ...
Case Study Consumer Products SAP + Technology Supporting SAP EWM/TM Training for a Leading CPG Company Clarkston Consulting recently engaged with a CPG client, supporting SAP EWM TM training to enhance user readiness. Read a synopsis ...
Blog Post Digital Consumer Products How Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is Changing with AI Search engine optimization (SEO) has been around for decades. Over that time, algorithms have evolved, ranking factors have shifted, and ...
Blog Post Consumer Products POI 2025 Fall Summit Recap: The Future of RGM, Data, and AI Clarkston’s Idoia Hidalgo and Brandon Miller recently attended the POI 2025 Fall Summit in Dallas, Texas, where industry experts gathered to discuss best practices for today’s ...
Case Study Consumer Products Food and Beverage Category Management Transformation Assessment & Operating Model Development Clarkston Consulting recently partnered with a CPG company on a category management transformation assessment. Read a synopsis of the project ...
Blog Post Data + Analytics Consumer Products How CPG Firms Can Leverage AI and ML for Revenue Growth Management AI and Machine Learning (ML) seem to be on the minds of just about everyone who is seriously thinking about ...
Blog Post Consumer Products Food and Beverage Responding to the Red Dye Ban: Shifts in the Food and Beverage Industry In January 2025, the FDA banned synthetic food dye Red No. 3 under the Delaney Clause due to concerns over health risks. The food and ...
Multimedia Consumer Products Retail How to Better Manage Change Resistance with Feedback Loops Organizations don’t change – individuals within the organization change, one individual at a time. This is a sometimes-overlooked concept that ...
Blog Post Data + Analytics Consumer Products Salesforce and Agentic AI: Takeaways from Dreamforce 2025 Earlier this month, Clarkston attended the 2025 Dreamforce event in San Francisco to explore the latest strategic direction and product ...
Case Study Consumer Products Retail Conducting a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Assessment In this PLM assessment case study, Clarkston Consulting helped a client prepare for a PLM implementation, with a detailed assessment ...