Retail

Project to define and validate industry data requirements before exploring use cases leveraging traceability standards and any industry-specific requirements to enable interoperability at that stage.

Retailers encouraged to pursue alternative commerce solutions to provide a customer experience that meets expectations.

Earliest digital twin projects focused primarily on manufacturing, assisting plant operators to optimize production activity. Their project list today spans multiple sectors, including commercial real estate, retail, infrastructure and smart cities.

New integration helps joint Sage Intacct and TrueCommerce customers better connect to sales channels by automating sales order, remote warehouse and inventory document processing.

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a jarring impact on retail supply chains in many ways, in terms of how retailers had to respond and react to a new way of handling their supply chain operations. That was made clear in the findings of a recent study published by Blue Yonder (formerly JDA), a provider of AI-driven and end-to-end supply chain management services, and WMG, an academic department at the University of Warwick, England that provides research, education and knowledge transfer...

Consumers have been forced to navigate new channels to find goods, and merchants have to pivot to try new sales and delivery channels.

April retail sales data, which was issued today by the United States Department of Commerce set records, but not in a good way, as they continued to feel the economic pain of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic.

Merchants are pivoting from a business-to-business (B2B) to a B2E (business to everyone) model, with unique shipping, logistics and fulfillment requirements.

The report’s key indicator, the NMI, fell 10.7% to 41.8, coming off of March’s 52.5 reading, which stands as the highest reading in the last year. It is the lowest reading since the 40.1 recorded in March 2009 and contracted for the first time since December 2009, halting a 122-month stretch of growth.

Social responsibility encompasses automation, green shipping, improving last-mile delivery, maintaining a positive workplace and more efficient planning.

Report indicates modes moving smaller shipments are experiencing steady pricing overall as e-commerce usage from a largely remote-based workforce drives residential parcel delivery volumes. Meanwhile, rates in the truckload market are dropping sharply.

Report suggests growth in digital channels will make a deep and lasting dent in operating income, forcing grocery retailers to accelerate digital channel development timeline by three to five years.

In this white paper, we explore the key challenges that grocers are facing in the online world and show how automated micro-fulfillment centers are helping them close the gaps and more effectively compete against some of the world’s largest e-tail grocers.

Micro-fulfillment is an increasingly popular way to address COVID-19-related distribution challenges.

Commerce reported that March retail sales—at $483.1 billion—were down 8.7% compared to February, which represents the single largest annual monthly retail sales decline going back to when this data was first tracked by Commerce in 1992.