- 1. Supply Chain Platforms Grow
- (News)
- Direct to consumer sales are fueling supply chain platform growth, reports PYMNTS. More companies have embraced selling directly to consumers, sidestepping old, larger-scale operations in favor of developing ...
- 2. RFID Should Be Integral to Your Supply Chain Efforts
- (Supply)
- ... Here, RFID is playing a critical role in retailers finding better ways of transforming the customer experience. For example, in apparel retailing, the uptake of RFID technology among some biggest players ...
- 3. Grocery Stores Taking Stock of Pandemic Issues
- (Retail)
- ... to the supply chain is now having an impact on channels of retailing. To some extent, online is now offline, and companies need to explore multiple channels of retailing. Retail firms must look at the ...
- 4. Warehouse Management Systems in More Demand
- (News)
- ... the coronavirus pandemic, many retailers saw warehouse management systems (WMS) as an important investment area. The State of Retailing Online 2020 report from the National Retail Federation and Forrester ...
- 5. Making Reservations for On-Line Customers
- (News)
- The impact of the omnichannel consumer on retailers is hard to overstate. One of the crucial decisions to make is how much inventory to reserve for shipments to ecommerce customers and how to reserve it.On ...
- 6. Omnichannel Marketing, Visibility, and the Perfect Order
- (Supply)
- One of the biggest business changes wrought by the rise of the Internet is omnichannel retailing – the ability for consumers to make purchases at any time in any place, and then have the product directly ...
- 7. The Omnichannel Inflection Point
- (News)
- ... that means adapting to changes like omnichannel retailing.How supply chains cope with such an inflection point is a topic for Jim LeTart in an article on the Logistics Viewpoints site. Read his thoughts ...
- 8. Effective Compliance Program Key To Supply Chain Success
- (Logistics)
- ... retailing. “It’s surprising how many smaller retailers still don’t have effective compliance programs in place,” says Zablocky, who has been advising supply chain partners about how to resolve compliance ...
- 9. Omnichannel's Short Histor
- (News)
- Things are moving so quickly today that a 'trend' that is relatively new, omnichannel retailing, is having histories written about it. On the Essential Retail site, Nikki Baird provides a multi-article ...
- 10. What Happens After Walmart?
- (Management)
- ... The trend of big-box retailers decimating local retailers is now part of our legacy. Rising in its wake is the growing prevalence of online retailing. And as these online and big-box showcasing grow one ...
- 11. Instant Gratification Anyone?
- (News)
- In a Wired article, Mat Honan reminds us that what's new isn't actually all that new. The power of the smartphone has enable a whole slew of new services that deliver instant gratification.If you really ...
- 12. New Skills Needed for Omnichannel
- (News)
- Retailers, both in the U.S. and the U.K., have plenty of problems attracting the right talent. The rise of the omnichannel consumer has added yet another layer to their challenge.The demand for new functionality ...
- 13. Is Omnichannel Working?
- (Retail)
- ... an asset as omnichannel retailing becomes a mainstream consumer practice. Overall integration of the business to merge the online and in-store operations should be the focus of top level executives so ...
- 14. What Does Integration Mean to Your Process
- (Integration)
- As the supply chain becomes more intricate, more demanding, and faster moving, margin for error decreases. The complexity of omnichannel retailing in itself means predicting the next order is impossible. ...
- 15. Omnichannel - With Caution
- (Retail)
- ... retailing they are generally aware of one thing - the retailer. And that's exactly the point. Retailers want that recognition to begin and end with them, regardless of the path the ordered product took ...
- 16. Time to Follow Walmart... Again?
- (Management)
- ... an article on RIS that calls out 5 retailers to watch with regard to omnichannel retailing. The article points out that while it is certainly at the top of the retailer stack it's still doing things differently. ...
- 17. Omnichannel Pressures on the Supply Chain
- (News)
- Chris Jones, in a DC Velocity article, takes a look at some of the pressures to the supply chain being created by the omnichannel phenomenon.He makes a good point: it's not just about reducing costs. Check ...
- 18. Omnichannel and the Supply Chain
- (News)
- Kevin O'Marah, on the SCM World site, has thoughts about how omnichannel in the retail world is affecting its supply chains. He uses BestBuy as an example.There are many things done 'behind the curtain' ...
- 19. The State of Omnichannel Retail
- (News)
- A recent article by Paula Rosenblum on the Retail Wire site goes through the research by RSR on the state of cross-channel retailing.Everybody knows the omnichannel customer is already with us, but many ...
- 20. The Importance of Inventory Intelligence
- (News)
- On the Retail Digital site, Eddie Dautry-Turner discusses one of the great challenges in dealing with the omnichannel consumer: inventory intelligence.It's always been important to retailers, and is even ...
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