This benchmark report from Retail Systems Research provides five recommendations to help retailers strengthen their response to newly emerged consumer price transparency. It also examines the impact of price transparency and the threat of inflation on retailers’ pricing strategies and tactics.
White Papers
Here are the available White Papers as of May 2012.
Sponsored by SAS
Categories: Business and Strategy
Sponsored by Zebra
Categories:
Business and Strategy
Information Technology
Merchandising
RFID continues to grow as a proven solution to increase inventory visibility and accuracy, which helps reduce out-of-stocks, increase sales, and lower cycle counting labor. Achieving the most value from RFID demands an innovative method for ensuring accuracy while shrinking the reoccurring costs of label media.
Sponsored by Zebra
Categories:
Business and Strategy
Information Technology
Merchandising
Wireless bar code and radio frequency identification (RFID) label printing is widely recognized by major retailers globally as an essential technology for enhancing store operations. The ability to print real-time information in the aisle, on demand, saves time, effort, and money—creating competitive advantages.
Sponsored by Zebra
Categories:
Business and Strategy
Information Technology
Merchandising
Kiosks are increasingly common—hundreds of thousands of new units are being deployed each year, in a variety of retail, hospitality, healthcare and other environments—but are also increasingly complex, offering a range of applications, displays, multimedia capabilities and integration options.
Sponsored by SAS
Categories:
Business and Strategy
Marketing
Merchandising
This Harvard Business Review report is packed with more than 30 thought-provoking articles that explore how advanced analytics is taking retail to a new tipping point. Category giants like Walmart, Best Buy, Staples, the Apple Store and Trader Joe’s are featured in case study after case study – as experts give their insights on such topics as customer engagement, social media, merchandise assortment and inventory optimization.
Sponsored by Aerohive
Categories: Information Technology
Retailing companies often must support geographically dispersed sites on a shoestring IT budget. The wireless LANs in these sites are often small, but they nevertheless need business-class capabilities, such as advanced security protection and centralized management, which often add cost. New WLAN architectures and deployment models, however, have emerged to offer more options to help retailers get what they need while sticking to their budgets.
Sponsored by CitiXsys
Categories: Business and Strategy
In these times of wafer-thin margins, it’s imperative that retailers large and small make that extra effort to ensure that they are targeting the right customers at the appropriate time and can analyze and predict customer buying patterns to maximize revenue and profitability. This white paper addresses how best to extract and exploit data to positively impact retailers’ bottom lines.
Sponsored by Ryder
Categories: Supply Chain
Recognizing that reverse logistics can drive real impact to the bottom line, this is an area of high priority for companies looking to reduce costs, add efficiencies, improve the customer experience and build sustainable supply chain practices. As a result, manufacturers are uncovering the hidden value of resturned assets and streamlining return, repair and product reallocation processes. Find out how you're company can benefit from effective reverse logistics management.
Sponsored by NCR
Categories:
Business and Strategy
Information Technology
Leveraging in-store wireless networks
In-store Wi-Fi is a unique way to deliver a more complete retail experience. Enabling wireless interactions gives retailers a competitive edge to better engage and influence customers at the moment of decision – inside the store. This whitepaper from NCR Corporation highlights how retailers can maximize in-store wireless deployments and highlights pitfalls and common mistakes.
Sponsored by GT Nexus
Categories:
Business and Strategy
Information Technology
Supply Chain
Responding Effectively to Seasonal Demand In a Global Sourcing Environment
This white paper explores the challenges and solutions associated with creating a nimble, demand driven supply chain for retailers who must deal with the challenges of seasonal merchandise.
This white paper explores the challenges and solutions associated with creating a nimble, demand driven supply chain for retailers who must deal with the challenges of seasonal merchandise.
Sponsored by Intel
Categories:
Business and Strategy
Information Technology
Loss Prevention
Organizations that accept, capture, store, transmit or process a high volume of credit card and debit card data are required to complete annual onsite PCI DSS compliance assessments whose costs range from $225,000 - $500,000 depending on the number of systems in PCI scope. Available in multiple form factors and supported by world-class Intel engineering, Intel® Tokenization Broker reduces PCI scope, lowers assessment costs, and is the only product in the market to support Tokenization Proxy and Security Gateway on a single platform.
Sponsored by Epicor
Categories: Business and Strategy
Banish customer frustration… using channel integration!
Aberdeen’s 2012 Analyst Insight on Omni-Channel Retailing shows you how! This report details best practices from 80 retailers on breaking down silos in-store and enterprise-wide to ensure product availability, optimize the customer experience, and integrate workflows, to maximize profit. This $399 value is yours free. Download now!
Sponsored by SAS
Categories:
Business and Strategy
Marketing
Merchandising
The latest research report from Retail Systems Research (RSR) re-examines the seven tenets of 21st century merchandising and reveals why and how the current retail winners are winning. It also provides seven bootstrap recommendations on how you can integrate these tenets into your business model, so you can join the ranks of the retail winners.
