While few serious economists and industry analysts expect stagflation to become a household word again, most are predicting that commodity costs will continue their upward trend...

Executives must migrate the Finance function from the transactional-heavy environment of today to become a more strategic provider of information and insight to operations – in short, to become the value-added partner of the business.

A look at the dynamics of innovation and complexity reveals that escalating CPG supply chain complexity is far out-pacing the impact of SKU rationalization, process optimization and other simple efforts to combat it. If these traditional levers aren’t cutting it, what should CPG companies do?