Retail IT White Papers
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Inside Cash Recycling's Time, Money-Saving Major Upgrades
5/31/2018
Cash remains as relevant in retail as it has ever been. Although slowly declining as a percentage of point-of-sale transactions, the amount of cash in circulation continues to grow in the United States. Managing this growing volume of cash remains problematic, as there are widely known cash handling challenges facing retail operations today.
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Blockchain For Supply Chain: Ghost In The Machine Or Breakthrough Technology?
5/24/2018
There is no doubt that this building-block approach, when properly repurposed, can have powerful applications in the field of global trade.
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Reinventing The Supply Chain: The Future Of Fulfillment Vision Study
5/14/2018
A $2.3 trillion global e-commerce market reflects how profoundly shopper expectations have recalibrated worldwide. Today’s consumers have been rewired by digital disruption. That always-connected, tech-savvy shopper expects a seamless, faster purchasing journey, whether she’s buying online and picking up in store or wants her merchandise delivered in two hours to her door.
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Cyber Security For SME's – Small And Medium Sized Enterprises
4/12/2018
From the GDPR Advisory Board – a panel of leading data protection experts providing straight-forward advice on the forthcoming GDPR.
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Crushing The Five Barriers To Growth
11/6/2017
Starting a business can be hard. Growing your business can be even harder. Whether it’s poor customer data, manual and broken processes, minimal operations visibility to make decisions, building a winning team, or keeping up with changing regulations, there is always something getting in the way of growth. These barriers hurt sales, cost money and create risk.
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How To Make A Next Generation Store A Right Now Store
11/6/2017
The current media reporting on the state of retail stores paints a doom and gloom picture. Almost every day there are headlines of bankruptcy filings and store closures suggesting that the retail apocalypse is here. It’s clear that the retail industry is going through a transformational period that has many scaling back physical operations, but despite the news, people still want to—and still do—shop in stores.
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Scalable Value: Defining Packaging Standards For Vendors
10/19/2017
If you asked the stakeholders in your business whether packaging is perceived as an unwanted cost or a value driving innovation, what would they say?
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3 Ways To Save Millions On Transit Packaging
10/11/2017
Is this situation familiar? You invest your time and energy developing products for the market, and develop a supply chain model to ensure these new products make it to customers in a timely manner. Then, you invest further in well-crafted brand promises implemented to the finest detail within your style guide. Next, you transfer the whole bundle to the OEM and ask: “when can we start shipping?”. Rarely, up to this point, has any thought been given to transit packaging. Let’s be honest – the feeling is, you have invested all that time in developing the product, how hard can it be to get the package right? Famous last words indeed.
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Packaging - A Magic Ingredient?
10/11/2017
Is packaging the magic ingredient in your global supply chain? It certainly has the power to make or break your global operations.
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The Final Frontier Of Supply Chain Optimization
10/11/2017
Most retailers are missing out on a major opportunity for cost savings in their supply chain. It’s not because the opportunity is complicated - quite the contrary. The idea is so simple most retailers probably think it’s already being handled. But when you’re talking about shipping from Asia, what you think is happening and what is actually happening with your packaging material, performance specifications and freight utilization are rarely the same. So, what do you do?