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Is Uber the Next UPS?

Retail TouchPoints

Four to five days is the maximum acceptable wait time during the holidays, and for the rest of the year that shrinks to two to three days , according to Sean Whitehouse, Managing Director of Strategy & Consulting, Supply Chain & Operations, Retail Lead at Accenture in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Business Growth through Digital Transformation: The Case of Premium and Luxury Brands

Retail Focus

Expert Manager at Univers Retail | Ephemeral Retailing Specialist | Published Author | Speaker In the dynamic and ever-evolving landscape of contemporary business, the concept of digital transformation has emerged as a pivotal force shaping industries and strategies at an unprecedented pace. Ghalia BOUSTANI.

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Analysis: Synergies begin to show after merger of SEA hypermarkets

Inside Retail

This will suit companies with strong supply-chain management capabilities and the ability to operate multiple formats in the whole hierachy of locations from major metropolitan areas through to provincial cities and towns, all the way down to rural locations.

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Customer returns: Five fundamentals to recoup revenue

365 Retail

of global sales in 2017, to 21% in 2022. Retailers should be using an inventory management platform that provides a real-time overview of their stock. Use Centralised Cloud-based Software to Manage Data. The pandemic has not been kind to many things, but to ecommerce, it’s been an unprecedented period of success. In a store?

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How Asos is helping to stamp out modern slavery in Mauritius

Inside Retail

The alliance they created with ASI back in 2017 has meant a lot more than just coming up with a modern slavery statement, it has been about incorporating visibility, transparency and sustainability into the vertical set up of the industry. Being nosy.

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Direct-to-consumer retail is about dynamism, as well as data

365 Retail

The company has been steadily culling its roster of retail partners since 2017, and recently withdrew from major fashion retailers like Urban Outfitters to focus on online growth, brick-and-mortar expansion, and customer proximity. Going direct: every capability counts. A poster child for a modern DTC brand is sportswear giant Nike.

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La Maison Simons wins Supply Chain Innovation Award

Retalon

The Retail Coucil of Canada acknowledged that Simons’ excelled in all aspects of their supply chain by integrating key functions such as omni-channel demand forecasting, planning, purchasing, logistics, allocation, warehouse management, replenishment, and inter-channel inventory & assortment balancing.