Retail

All signs point to a major crossroads for retail companies. Download this paper to find out more about the seven tipping points that are impacting retail now, as well as the four pillars of success needed to survive long term in this changing environment.

Retailers today have multiple brands and multiple channels serving multiple demographics with multiple fulfillment models... additionally, customers are not static.

We recently wrote a white paper called The Agile Retailer, and In it we examined how allocation practices are changing, especially for fashion retailers.

Schumacher Electric, is the world’s foremost manufacturer of battery chargers and has built a thriving business by selling its products to large retailers such as Walmart, Napa, Advance Auto Parts and Pep Boys as well as the world’s leading multinational equipment manufacturers.

The online retailer said Wednesday that the self-created holiday was its biggest sales day ever, with worldwide orders rising more than 60 percent compared with the previous Prime Day, and U.S. orders rising by more than 50 percent.

The battle between these two retail giants is heating up with Walmart countering the e-commerce giant with its own new promotion the day before Amazon's Prime Day: free shipping with no minimum purchase on all online orders.

In the online direct-to-consumer world, retailers, consumer packaged goods manufacturers and their supply chain partners are faced with tremendous challenges.

Because you will be dealing with consumer-based orders (via your e-commerce site), there are a number of new issues to consider when leveraging a drop shipping fulfillment model.

The Nordstrom acquisition of a stake in the maker of Dsco software is aimed at boosting the speed of online order delivery while keeping costs down.

As omnichannel becomes more mainstream, retailers and ecommerce companies need to find ways to improve the speed, service and scalability of their operations.

In e-Commerce efficient packaging can help online retailers reduce environmental impact and cut costs.

The first edition of the Fashion Transparency Index includes 40 of the biggest global fashion brands, which we have selected based on annual turnover, and we relied on publicly available financial information to choose this selection of brands and their inclusion was not voluntary.

Many companies do not really know where their clothes are being made, and the vast majority of today’s fashion brands do not own their manufacturing facilities, making it difficult to monitor working conditions throughout the supply chain.

As companies race to adapt to today’s omnichannel marketplace, speed, service and scalability are in high demand.

Following a strategic investment in January, Infor completes acquisition of Predictix and continues push to modernize the retail industry.