Lessons from Failed Implementations in Consumer Goods The promise of AI-powered trade promotion optimization and demand forecasting has led many consumer packaged goods companies to invest heavily in cloud-based analytics platforms. Yet despite budgets often exceeding seven figures, a significant percentage of these initiatives fail to deliver expected returns. Having observed dozens of implementations across the CPG industry, certain patterns of failure emerge repeatedly—and they're almost entirely avoidable with proper planning and execution. Understanding what goes wrong with AI and Cloud Integration projects is just as valuable as knowing what success looks like. This article examines the most common—and most expensive—mistakes that CPG organizations make when implementing AI and cloud solutions for trade promotion management, category planning, and demand forecasting.…