The Supply Chain Matters blogs provides commentary highlighting a recent Oracle Retail sponsored survey: Setting the Bar: Global Customer Experience Trends 2019, along with some important takeaways for readers.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog reviews how the Amazon Effect has spilled over to retail industry Cloud platform adoption decisions, and how technology providers are responding to growing opportunities to add additional retail customers.
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Consumer confidence remains strong and forecasts for the upcoming holiday period remain positive. However, B2C and B2B online fulfillment will face added challenges in the coming weeks recruiting added labor, implementing new online fulfillment processes, and securing added resources. This may well be a period where investments in advanced technology can pay dividends.
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The National Retail Federation (NRF) this week increased its U.S. retail sales forecast for 2018, indicating that sales are expected more than previously forecasted earlier this year. While retailers will likely view this upward forecast as a forerunner to be a very optimistic indicator for the all-important second-half of the year, caution is advised.
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The latest retail industry casualty regarding the permanent change in consumer shopping patterns is now Toys ‘R’ Us Inc. which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after struggling with a heavy debt load. While some can bundle this latest action under this growing trend, there are other forces at-play, namely increased supplier assertiveness.
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A rather sobering announcement from major apparel supply chain influencer Li & Fung adds further reinforcement of unprecedented business and supply chain challenges impacting global retailers.
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The market performance numbers surrounding the holiday fulfillment period that spanned November...
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In August of 2016, this blog’s parent, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, published a...
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Included within our 2016 Predictions for Industry Supply Chains (Available for complimentary...
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In our Supply Chain Matters commentaries focused on Retail industry and B2C commerce, we have for...
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We provide a contextual follow-up to our ongoing Supply Chain Matters observations and insights...
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Wal-Mart shocked the stock market yesterday in warning that sales growth would be flat for the...
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