Here Are Six Retail Aspects That Would Most Benefit From the Cloud

by Jenelle | Dec 5, 2023 | Industry Insights and Solutions, Retail

In 2018, consulting firm McKinsey conducted a survey among CIOs and IT decision makers from multiple retail formats. The study revealed that cloud usage varies by retail subsectors or functions. Pure-play retailers are taking advantage of the cloud’s scalability,...

A Changed, and Charged, Retail Experience

by Jenelle | Dec 5, 2023 | Industry Insights and Solutions, Retail

COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the way we live, work, study, socialize – and shop. The pandemic has altered the retail landscape and experience in two ways: as a disruption to business as usual and as an amplifier of long-standing forces that predate the...

Cloud Technology Helps Supply Chains Scale

by Jenelle | Dec 5, 2023 | Industry Insights and Solutions, Retail, Wholesale and Distribution

MORE than half of more than 1,000 supply chain professionals worldwide surveyed recently by the Materials Handling Institute (MHI) and Deloitte said they are planning to increase or substantially increase their investments in cloud computing and storage to make supply...

How to Build Supply Chain Resilience

by Jenelle | Dec 5, 2023 | Industry Insights and Solutions, Retail, Wholesale and Distribution

Inflation has gone up in many countries, as supply chain bottlenecks disrupted the flow of commodities globally.  Issues such as labor mismatch, port congestion and lack of truckers have hampered trade, resulting in up to 70-percent increase in prices of some...

Better Supply Chains in the Next Normal

by Jenelle | Dec 5, 2023 | Industry Insights and Solutions, Retail, Wholesale and Distribution

To adapt to the ever-changing environment in which they operate, chief supply chain leaders must also employ new technologies and reimagine the future of supply chains. The pandemic shone a spotlight on global supply chain networks. It exposed their flaws and...

Reducing Supply Chain Risks

by Jenelle | Dec 5, 2023 | Industry Insights and Solutions, Retail, Wholesale and Distribution

SUPPLY shocks in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic show that companies will have to make their supply chains more resilient. In a Harvard Business Review article called Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World,  Willy C. Shih, a professor of Management...