- 1. The Role of Predictive Analytics in Supply Chain Inventory Management
- (Technology)
- In today's complex and fast-paced supply chain landscape, the role of predictive analytics in inventory management cannot be overstated. Predictive analytics utilizes historical data, statistical modeling, ...
- 2. Christmas in July?
- (News)
- Is it too early to think about Christmas? If you're in the supply chain or electronic commerce areas, if you're just starting now you may be behind!Mobile consumers continue to drive changes across the ...
- 3. Omnichannel vs. Showrooming
- (News)
- We've written in the past about the concept of 'showrooming' and the stress it places on brick and mortar retailers. With the omnichannel purchaser becoming more ubiquuitous, some high-profile firms have ...
- 4. What Omnichannel Really Means
- (News)
- The omnichannel trend has been upon us for awhile now. Like most technology and process trends, what's murky in the beginning becomes clearer eventually.According to Jeannie Walters on the Multichannel ...
- 5. What's a Store
- (News)
- Remember the days when a store was a store? That was before omnichannel customers, that's for sure. Now a store is a channel, a showroom, a pop-up location.... a number of different types of operations.On ...
- 6. Is Omnichannel Working?
- (Retail)
- ... What many retailers abhor is referred to as 'showrooming' where retail customers look at merchandise on the shelves of the physical store and look at their smartphone devices to find the same items at ...
- 7. Challenges for Omnichannel Retailers
- (News)
- We've been following the omnichannel news for quite awhile, but it sometimes helps to get into detail on what it really means to retailers. The challenges are many.In an article on the Power Retail site, ...
- 8. The Buzz About Omnichannel
- (Retail)
- ... placed on-line through an eprocurement connection. The one behavior we didn’t have to deal with that’s frequently tied to omnichannel is showrooming (see previous article HERE). With the huge increase ...
- 9. Want to Keep Pace with Ecommerce? Sign on to Integrated Electronic Product Catalogs
- (Retail)
- ... and varying price points, and showrooming, the practice involves consumers trying out products at stores and then searching for better deals using mobile commerce. According to a study of 1000 ...
- 10. 'tis the Season... For Predictions
- (Management)
- ... the supply chain, from DC location to multi-level inventory forecasting to showrooming to ‘last mile’ logistics. The ‘omni-channel’ enterprise is here to stay and will continue to force the supply chain ...
- 11. B2D is the New Frontier
- (News)
- Abe Garver writes in Forbes that B2D (Business-to-Doorstep) is the new challenge for supply chains in an increasingly ecommerce-driven world. This is a really interesting little article that paints a picture ...
- 12. Challenges for Best Buy
- (News)
- An article by Michael Copeland in last month's Wired magazine discusses the challenges retailers face in this multi-channel environment. He specifically looks at BestBuy and their difficult road back from ...
- 13. Retailers vs. Showrooming
- (News)
- The 'showrooming' issue just won't go away. Retailers are devising strategies on how to combat, and even welcome, it. Check out a fresh article by Kavita Kumar in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch HERE to see ...
- 14. On-Line Connects With Stores
- (News)
- There used to be a clear separation between the on-line and off-line worlds. That's no longer the case. Big-box stores such as WalMart now use their websites to generate orders customers pick up at ...
- 15. To Showroom, or Not....
- (Retail)
- My buddy Buzz posted links recently to a couple articles on the topic of ‘showrooming’. It’s a term describing the relatively new practice by consumers of using a physical retail establishment and resources ...
- 16. The Showrooming Battle
- (News)
- One recent phenomenon that's been identified is 'showrooming', where customers use physical stores of a retailer to look at products that are then bought on-line or via mobile device. In an article ...
- 17. Is "Showrooming" a Problem
- (News)
- Cross-channel shopping isn't new, but consumer behavior in the mobile commerce era has created some new approaches to shopping. Does your retail 'brick and mortar' store you've spent a fortune to build ...
- 18. 2012 year of Collaboration
- (Integration)
- ... For example, lighting companies like MyLightingShowRoom.com provide lighting retailers that don't have a way to manage inventory levels in one central location, now have access to many suppliers' inventories ...
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