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Accelerating Innovation in a Crisis Economy Economic crises have always yielded winners and losers in business, and the COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses to re-evaluate their strategic priorities, including their innovation efforts. In some industries, innovation investments are up dramatically as. In others, conservation is the order of the day. Both consumer and commercial routes [...]

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Continuing with new product development efforts is more critical than ever. Your initial response might be to hide out but stopping innovation altogether might put your organization at risk of being way behind the competition when things return to ‘normal’. Sopheon has the software and experience to support you to innovate through this time of [...]

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Effective and efficient gate meetings underpin healthy decisions in the innovation process. As you re-evaluate your investment and innovation plans for the short- and medium-term, ensuring fast and informed decisions by a broad group of stakeholders is more important than ever before. As a central repository for initiative and portfolio data, Accolade helps your cross-functional [...]

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Consumer goods importers and distributors are master jugglers, managing product development, to forecasting and importing, to direct-to-consumer shipping, to warehouse logistics, and everything in between. Running your operations with the right ERP system has the potential to change everything about your consumer goods business. This guide was developed to help you understand the critical areas [...]

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If you work in consumer goods, depending on your particular industry, demand and inventory can fluctuate and shrink at any number of points throughout the year. For importers and distributors, their high-demand months occur just before those high-demand consumer seasons. With seasonality, it’s all about planning and forecasting. No matter your industry, no matter your [...]

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