The logistics industry offers great opportunities for career development, yet it faces many challenges in both retention and recruitment. However as we saw in the first eBook, retailers are striving to deliver an agile supply chain to compete in this fast-paced and challenging environment. The industry needs to communicate these changes and new opportunities to engage and attract new talent. (more…)
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Winning at Warehousing: Effectiveness
The way people shop is evolving at a fast pace. The traditional high street model is disappearing as timepressed consumers look for faster and more convenient ways of getting hold of their purchases. In order to be effective a Warehouse Management System (WMS) must be able to adapt to the changing needs of a market. (more…)
The ‘Wow’ and the ‘How’
Multichannel retailers create ‘wow’ moments to engage with and sell to consumers. As previous certainties are shaken by cyclical and epochal change, the search for ‘how’ to deliver on the promises is top of mind. Whatever our position in the shifting landscape, we share one imperative: to act wisely at pace. We consider our options to decrease the latency between idea and gaining advantage. (more…)
Why an agile and responsive supply chain is a must-have
Agility and flexibility should be at the heart of any retail business as it strives to react quickly to change and adapts to meet new customer demands. Today’s customer demands simply can’t be met if a retailer’s supply chain isn’t nimble and agile enough to respond. (more…)
Secondary Markets – A Commercial Introduction to Life After The Return
Returns are a growing problem for retailers. Coping with the volume, processing and cost of returns is a significant challenge for retailers who would rather concentrate on selling goods than taking them back. (more…)
Towards instant returns
Returns can be stressful for both retailers and consumers. Consumers demand fast and flexible solutions and thus retailers are having to improve their offerings and accommodate for this demand, otherwise they will lose custom. (more…)
Digital Store: The Customer Experience
While almost every retailer now understands the importance of providing a compelling online experience, fewer of them are extending the benefits of digital into their physical stores. Companies that do so can build the same personalisation and loyalty into the in store experience. However, challenges around staff and prioritisation mean that these benefits are often left unrealised.
This whitepaper, produced in partnership with Microsoft, explores these issues as it reveals the stark missed opportunity – our survey found that only 18 percent of retailers polled were happy with their in store experience. (more…)
Winning at Warehousing: Productivity
Productivity: the need to make your people productive Download your eBook The second in our Winning at Warehousing series of eBooks, we explore the concept of productivity. We look at the human aspects of efficiency to understand how staff can work with systems in more productive ways and deliver (more…)
Fit for purpose: The apparel fit trends report for eCommerce
As customers look to buy more and more of their clothing online, the onus is on retailers to provide as much information as possible about size and fit to ensure they are not disappointed. This is a challenge when sizing can vary widely across different brands and products. A transparent approach to fit online can pay dividends in the long run, with opportunities to increase loyalty and reduce returns rates.
In this whitepaper, produced in partnership with Rakuten Fits Me, we explore the challenges and opportunities of taking a tailored approach to fitting. (more…)
Warehouse Automation and Software Systems
With the warehouse the backbone of any retail business successful management of the processes and systems within it is vital. At some stage of a retailer’s growth some degree of automation of systems within the warehouse is a must as the need for efficiency and accuracy is further exacerbated by growth. (more…)
Optimising the store estate for omnichannel retailing
Omnichannel capabilities are a necessary factor for retailers selling online as well as operating on high streets. Store networks have been going through uncertain times with closures, reformatting and regeneration, kiosks and tablet devices being rolled out by digital teams to store colleagues, and click and collect services bringing in additional footfall and responsibilities. (more…)
Winning at Warehousing: Efficiency
Efficient running of warehouses can boost productivity and ensure the retailer manages to fulfil its aim of a seamless experience and order fulfilment, however doing so requires close management, control and understanding to ensure it operates at its best. (more…)
Order Management: The Engine for Omni-channel Growth
An Order Management System (OMS) is the central nervous system; the nerves and fibres that connect together all the silos of a retail business. It distributes the growing data and intelligence that all retailers have about their customers throughout the body-retail and, as such, is the engine for omni-channel growth. (more…)
Beyond ‘In Stock’: How fulfilment services can deliver the memorable experiences customers expect
Customers are increasingly likely to order online rather than buy items on the high street, more likely to shop around with the help of Google and Bing, and more likely to order multiple items before returning those they don’t want. Customers are demanding and expect to shop on their own terms. Retailers need to support this behaviour at the same time as differentiating themselves from competitors. (more…)
The 5 retail KPIs which will allow you to grow
As a smaller or high growth retailer, understanding and managing your performance is key but is no easy task. These types of business see constant change especially when on a fast growth journey. But true success ion retail relies on more than just passion and gut, monitoring performance through the analysis of KPIs is vital.
But what are the main KPIs you should be measuring? And how do they show you profitability, or let you know when you’re in danger? This whitepaper – produced in association with Brightpearl and our two sister brands, InterestingRetailing and Tamebay – aims to identify the main KPIs to keep an eye on and explores the ways in which retailers are currently keeping an eye on them. (more…)
Shaping your business to take advantage of fit
In an age where retailers want to know everything about their customers – from what they do and what they like to how they shop – it seems ludicrous that they sometimes still don’t know the very basics of what their customer actually looks like, both in terms of their size and shape.
Featuring case studies on the strategies of Henri Lloyd, House of Fraser, Alexandra, Celtic & Co and Plus Size. (more…)
Are you delivering what your customers want?
With consumer expectations at an all-time high when it comes to ecommerce, and with rival retailers waiting just one click away, it is increasingly vital that retailers get delivery right.
This whitepaper illuminates the issue. By surveying retailers to find out how they believe they are faring and what they’re aspiring to do, and combining it with comprehensive case studies from leading retailers and a clear plan of 10 key actions for the coming year, we provide key insight into how to benchmark and improve your own delivery strategy (more…)
Warehouse Management Systems – Fulfilment at the heart of changing retail
Examining the role of warehouse management and fulfilment as the beating heart of retail
A whitepaper by InternetRetailing and eDelivery, in partnership with Snapfulfil (more…)
The growing need for smart e-Fulfilment
Retailers are constantly looking at ways not only to drive efficiencies but also to deliver on their promises and to stand out from the crowd.
As retailers look to improve further on speed, ease and transparency by adopting further smart fulfiment technologies we look at what the best in class are doing from our IRUK and IREU research and also reveal the results of an exclusive survey of more than 150 retailers into their attitudes and thinking around delivery, returns and fulfiment issues. (more…)
The Power of Packaging: a missed opportunity
This eDelivery white paper, in partnership with Smurfit Kappa, explores how pace-setting retailers and brands are differentiating themselves and driving customer loyalty through innovative packaging in the ecommerce space.
If you want new ideas, and a better understanding of the challenges and rewards of taking a more strategic approach to your ecommerce packaging, then this white paper is a must read. (more…)