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Black Friday 2024: Why automation is critical for Australian retailers

Inside Retail

As the Black Friday 2024 shopping frenzy approaches, Australian retailers are gearing up for their biggest challenge yet – managing skyrocketing demand while staying efficient. To seize this massive opportunity, retailers must ensure smooth, scalable shopping experiences, and automation is the way forward. Automation.

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In 2025, Changing Consumer Demand will Reshape the Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

According to Gartner, more than three-quarters of supply chain leaders are being asked to improve their customer experience (CX) strategies. Luckily, many supply chain leaders are seeing early success in using automation to meet heightened customer expectations.

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The Secret to Solving Retail’s $743 Billion Returns Problem: Intelligent Customer Support

Retail TouchPoints

A combination of proactive, intelligent customer support and advanced technologies can reduce costs, improve customer satisfaction and foster stronger relationships transforming returns from a setback into an opportunity to provide a hyper-personalized customer experience for both shoppers and retailers.

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Supply Chain Digitalization Challenges that Every Retailer Faces and how to Mitigate Them

Retail TouchPoints

The cost and time of integrating supply chain management platforms with other IT systems are often very high. Moreover, multi-tiered supply chains across the globe involve multiple stakeholders using different systems, legacy solutions and even paper-based documentation, which creates more barriers.

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Six Principles for Redefining Retail with Responsible AI

Retail TouchPoints

Gen AI, with its vast potential for enhancing efficiency and personalizing customer experiences, also comes with ethical considerations. The role of such a committee — consisting of individuals from different departments and backgrounds — extends from supply chain management to customer interaction.

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The New Toolkit for Supply Chain Agility

Retail TouchPoints

Global conflicts, economic uncertainty and volatile demand patterns have thrown supply chains (and the retailers that rely on them) for a loop. So much impact, in fact, that supply chain snags and delivery delays are the leading cause for wavering customer loyalty. .

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Giant Eagle to Enhance Category Management at Nearly 500 Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Designed to drive greater efficiency and ensure products align optimally with the needs of each store’s customers, the new system will enable more effective collaboration among store managers, supply chain managers and merchandising leaders.