By now, you’ve probably heard numerous accounts of how retailers are transforming their businesses with new supply chain technologies. And you might be wondering if now’s the time to update your solutions, too. In this article we’ll look at thirteen tell-tale signs that a business is ready to rethink its supply chain strategies. When you’re…
Shoppers hate out-of-stocks. Period. First, they drive to the nearest store. They park, walk inside and proceed to search for where that item should be. If they can’t find it, they might ask an associate for help – or they might leave and repeat the pattern at the next store. But when they do find…
There are some pretty strange ideas about what personalization means out there in internet-land. Just scroll through your “spam” email folder to see what I mean. Yet personalization – the delivery of individualized targeted offers – is “the next big thing” in retail according to many experts. CEB’s B2C Marcomm Personalization report indicated that marketers…
It’s understandable if retail logistics executives are feeling like the overwhelmed ball players in that famous meeting on the mound in Bull Durham. As Crash Davis said, “We’re dealing with a lot of sh*t here.” There is a lot going on in the world of logistics. Retail execs can either identify and lean into the…
