Strategic Sourcing and Total Cost Management Offer Retailers Huge OpportunitiesPaula Rosenblum
Up to Q1 2015, Kantar Worlpdanel revealed an average of 10% growth attained by the CVS sector as a whole, the only format that reported double digit growth within modern trade. In the previous 12 months, the growth rate of CVS was only at 6.6%. In Nov 2014, Carrefour also opened ...
Digitized task management, automated ordering, production planning, micro-training, and a myriad of other recent innovations can improve the frontline experience. Scheduling is an evergreen problem and could be alleviated with new staffing solutions, such as flexible work platforms that pair qualified ...
offering an employee portal, and providing training materials and resources that will help them ease into their new workplace responsibilities. However, if you want to get really advanced with how you manage your onboarding process, usingAI to onboard new employeesis quickly becoming a common...
Tags:retail management,retail management training,retail performance,retail training A brand new market reality is upon us and, naturally, most retailers want to lift their performance up a notch compared to last year. How big a jump that’s going to be depends on the overall goals and objecti...
When streetwear retailer Filling Pieces needed a platform that could handle 10,000 simultaneous shoppers during flash sales, it discovered their existing systems couldn't scale. After unifying operations, the brand increased staff training efficiency ninefold and saw a 25% increase in average order ...
“While it is decreasing, employee turnover is still a very real issue for retailers,” said Rowley. “To retain top employees, employers need to lay out clear career paths, offer training, pay competitive wages and provide predictability in work schedules. I...
artificial intelligence was a constant topic throughout the show. Many noted that the technology had gone beyond hype to include practical use cases and game-changing opportunities in areas such as personalization, shopper behavior, sales and service, training and talent development, operations and mor...
The content of information that retailers receive is similar; most of the time the information is the same as in the manual, although there is variance depending on the sources and on the methods of information access (e.g., upstream retailers, expos, or training). The question arises whethe...
assortment and merchandising design and technology development operations, logistics, and customer support marketing talent, operating model, and change managementThe effort that each player should allocate to each of the capabilities will vary depending on the archetype it...