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A combination of turbulent economic times and changes in retailer behavior added up to a real problem for P&G: Excess inventory in the sales channel. Lots and lots of it.
Extra product sitting unsold costs everybody money. For consumer products giant P&G, a big data-based effort to clean up yielded not just a one-time bounty (though that $350 million was plenty to cheer about), but ongoing process improvements...