Retail Mavericks

Melissa Mann, former Procter & Gamble Senior Category Development Account Executive, talks to Milena Salmon from Retail Mavericks about the idea behind store clustering, the challenges category development teams face, and why providing assortment relevance and efficiency is now becoming extremely difficult as more data, merchandising constraints, and category goals grow. In this podcast,...

Designed for front-line users in sales, marketing, and category management, in this podcast you will learn how Machine Learning (ML) and Operations Research (OR) models are being used to augment traditional tasks from category strategy to planogram creation - all in minutes, not months. Scott and Zach share some of the best practices on how CPG manufacturers are leveraging next-generation ML and O...

To fully leverage the value contained in data, CPG companies and retailers need to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically Machine Learning (ML), into their retail planning and execution processes. We need to transition from a data-driven world to an AI-driven world. A world that can help us augment human judgment as simply as Google Maps does today. With the proliferation of AI/ML capabi...

Steven Soderlund is a ten-year practitioner of category management and has worked with brands like Church & Dwight Co. and American Greetings. He is currently an analytical consultant at HIVERY and a board advisor to Category Management Association, or CMA - a professional association with a mission to help shopper insights and category management professionals worldwide to win with shoppers by de...

Meet Michael Haase: Michael is the CEO and Founder of Plant Jammer, Denmark-based company with the mission to educate and inspire 1 billion people to eat sustainably in their homes. In this podcast you will learn: • How and why Michael started www.plantjammer.com, a dynamic way to engage your retail shoppers with recipes; • How AI is being applied to food recipes to help shoppers and retailers. •...

Discover new emerging retail risks and why even the biggest retailers continue to face inventory management challenges. Meet Brand Elverston: Brand is the Founder/Principal at Elverston Consulting. He is a senior strategic advisor providing upper leadership consultative services in retail technologies. Brand specialises in disruptive, non-traditional technology integration, large scale development...

Are consumers rational really? How does this impact shopper insights, category management, marketing and future AI models? In this podcast, Dr Gerardo Berbeglia, Associate Professor of Operations, shares his views and predictions. Meet Dr Gerardo Berbeglia: Dr Berbeglia specialises in Operations Research, Game Theory, Transport Optimisation, Revenue Management, Pricing Optimisation, Impact of Soci...

Based in Bentonville, Arkansas, Jeff Ireland ex Coke, Newell Brands and IRI talks about the challenges and future of category management analytics. With 18 years in category management, Jeff Ireland is an Analytic Consultant at HIVERY. Before HIVERY Jeff was the Senior Manager of the Category Strategy and Analytics Team at The Coca-Cola Company focusing on the creation of revolutionary AI products...

Future of retail is here: from in-store flying-blimps, shelf edge messaging, computer vision, robotics, smart checkouts to hyper local assortments. Ken is the President of Research & Advisory at Coresight Research, which delivers data-driven insights at the intersection of retail and technology. Coresight provides leading retailers, brands, technology companies, and investors with insights, advice...

Can previous consumers and their star rating/feedback really influence our buying decision? Find out the truth. Felipe Maldonado is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory, Applied Mathematics, and Market Design. In his latest research, he covers the scientific approach to determine how social influence can impact demand and demand predictions. Felipe also pr...

Dan is a CPG Industry professional with Experience in Headquarter Support, Product Development, Category/Brand Strategies, Retailer Dedicated Sales Support, Account Management, Team Development, and Coaching. In his 10+ years with Nestle USA, he has worked closely with almost every major grocer and mass retailer in the US including Walmart, Target, Albertson’s/Safeway, Publix, HEB, and Meijer. Dan...

In this podcast, Mark explains the science of optimization methods; the science of finding the best alternative from many alternatives. From wars, supply chain distribution to bakers and their bread to real category optimization. Mark Lawrenson has graduated with honours in mathematical applications and computations from The Australian National University and was previously a researcher at CSIRO/D...

With 20+ years of retail experience, Zach Simpson is the Director of Customer Success and Sales at HIVERY and the Founder of Relevance Retail, an innovative service and strategy platform simplifying the omni-channel commerce evolution for suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, and technology service providers. What you will learn from this podcast: • Zach's career journey from baseball to Walmart to...

The future of retail robotics: from out of stocks, promotional price tags and display compliance to seeing hazards and potentially smelling freshness Tim Rowland is CEO of Badger Technologies, a product division of Jabil - a $26 billion technology and supply chain solutions global company. Badger Technologies provides actionable data and analytics for retail operations through automation solutions...

Meet Dr Katrijn Gielens, Her research focuses on the dynamics in digital and brick-and-mortar retailing and relationships between retailers and brand manufacturers. She teaches courses in retailing and channel management. Her work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, The International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM), Journa...

Meet Phil Lempert, The Supermarket Guru® For more than 25 years, Lempert, an expert analyst on consumer behavior, marketing trends, new products, and the changing retail landscape, has identified and explained impending trends to consumers and some of the most prestigious companies worldwide. Known as The Supermarket Guru®, Lempert is a distinguished author and speaker who alerts customers and bus...

Josh Flannery is an entrepreneur with a track record of 16+ years and a connector of many kinds. Josh's passion lies in connecting people, organizations, and experiences in an effort to solve the world's problems by unleashing entrepreneurship. This podcast is for anyone interested in learning about entering the Japanese market, becoming an entrepreneur, or drinking sake; yes, sake. In this podcas...

Flora Delaney, a Senior Executive with 25+ years experience in the Retail, Marketing, Consumer Research and Information Services industries and author of RETAIL The Second-Oldest Profession. In this podcast, Flora shares her deep experience in Category Management, Productivity and Merchandising, and the future of retailing including AI and supply chain changes. In this podcast we will cover: • Who...

The future of trade promotion optimization is here, but can an AI approach, with all the complexity of creating a promotional calendar, really work? Melinda Wienand, a Revenue Management professional, talks about it and offers some thoughtful career advice in the process. In this podcast we will cover: • How it is important to partner with stakeholders such as sales teams to show them the power of...

What does comedian Eddie Murphy and David Kenney have in common? Check out this episode of Scientific Mavericks podcast to find out. David Kenney, Partner at Hall Chadwick, is one of Australia’s most reputable and capable strategic business advisors. David’s wealth of experience spanning many critical disciplines of business management and growth has equipped him with the stand-out capability to s...

In this special edition of Retail Mavericks, we speak with world-renowned artificial intelligence (AI) expert Toby Walsh about all that is AI. We cover a lot of interesting areas from killer robots to ethics to the 4 Ds of AI/robotization and the year 2062. In this exciting jam-packed section we will explore: • How AI is currently being used in everyday tasks: from voice assistance and recommendat...

In this special edition of Retail Mavericks, we speak with world-renowned artificial intelligence expert Toby Walsh about all that is AI. We cover a lot of interesting areas from killer robots to ethics to the 4 Ds of AI/robotization and the year 2062. In episode 1 of 2, we cover: • What do killer robots and autonomous cars have in common? • What problems can AI be used to solve? • Ethical enginee...

In this podcast episode you can learn about: • Common mistakes when scaling a business from a team of 25 to 30 or more. Roy talks about what to expect and what to look out for, including setting up the right management, right metrics and right sales team. • As a business leader, find out what you need to do to engage and redirect the company's attention; big hint: Data has a better idea. • Determi...

In this podcast episode, you can learn about: • With the onset of new technology, Andrew highlights the need to determine how to best leverage AI within your business; whether you should consider "buy or build" strategy, and how to embrace an agile mindset while managing intellectual property across internal and external teams. • Andrew discusses how major companies need to adopt new approaches, i...

In this podcast episode, you can learn about: • How can vending and vending machines help with our lives in a virus pandemic? Shantanu, HIVERY Enhance Director, provides insight into the benefits of vending machines in these totally unprecedented times and why having the right product assortment and stocks is more critical than ever before • HIVERY holds data from some of the world's greatest vend...