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Expert Voices from the Consumer Goods Industry

Leaders across the consumer goods industry share their expertise to help you drive growth across your retail and ecommerce business, and grow your career in Sales, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Finance.

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EP14: Summer 2024: State of Retail and Consumer Demand

Dive deep into the latest earnings reports and economic trends in Summer 2024. Economist and Alloy.ai CEO Joel Beal helps us decode the complex relationship between consumer spending, inflation, and market reactions. Discover the hidden dynamics of retail pricing and shrinkflation, which retail sectors are poised to thrive, and more.

EP13: The Key to Retailer-Supplier Collaboration with Peter Smith

Peter Smith, a seasoned executive with a rich background at Carters, Party City, and VF Corporation, discusses the role of data in retailer-supplier collaboration.

EP12: Easy Ways to Use POS Data to Sell More and Avoid Inventory Problems

With the help of Manfred Reiche we delve into the intricacies of point-of-sale data and its transformative impact on the consumer goods industry. Learn easy ways to use POS data to solve sales and supply chain challenges in the CPG space.

EP11: The Potential & Pitfalls of AI in the Consumer Goods Industry

Lasse Holmstedt, VP of Engineering at Alloy.ai, joins the Shelf Life Podcast to discuss the dynamic role of generative AI, large language models and machine learning within the consumer goods sector.

EP10: The Mindset and Tactics that Drive Growth for Consumer Brand Startups

On this episode of the Shelf Life Podcast, we discuss the path to growth as a consumer brand startup — with a focus on Ember’s exponential growth, how they integrate technology into the heart of their supply chain, the role of AI, the essence of culture, and the art of innovative product development.

EP09: Why timing can make or break your brand’s Easter sales

The Alloy.ai team, Joel and Logan, discuss the commercial and consumer-behavior dynamics at play during holidays like easter, and what they mean for consumer brands.

Joel Beal

CEO & Co-Founder @ Alloy.ai

Joel started Alloy.ai to help consumer goods brands to make faster and smarter supply chain, planning and sales decisions. Alloy.ai is the platform of choice for leading consumer goods brands – including Bosch, Crayola, Ferrero, Melissa & Doug, Valvoline and many more – across multiple industries.

Logan Ensign

Chief Customer Officer @ Alloy.ai

Logan is an expert in predictive analytics, AI and supply chain. As Chief Customer Officer, his team works closely with customers to help them solve their retail, ecommerce and supply chain data challenges. Before joining Alloy.ai, Logan worked for InsideSales.com, an AI and predictive analytics platform for sales operations.

Abby Carruthers

Product Manager @ Alloy.ai

Abby manages Alloy.ai’s predictive and prescriptive products, including forecasting, simulations, replenishment recommendations and more. She has a background in Client Solutions; helping customers get value from B2B SaaS products across the supply chain and retail analytics space.

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