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Strategic Performance Management for Retail: Strategies For Excelling In An Ever-Changing Industry
White Paper The paper also outlines a retailer's strategy map and contains a real-world case study. To excel in today's shaky economy, retailers need to manage the total enterprise and align their organizations, customers and suppliers in one strategic... [03 Jul 2008]
Developing an Effective Architecture for Retail Applications
White Paper One of the cornerstones of the flexible enterprise is a retailer's IT infrastructure. Just as a retailer must choose how it wishes to leverage technology in addressing business challenges, it also needs to select a software vendor that supports its... [03 Jul 2008]
A Retailer's Guide to Electronic Catalogues
White Paper This white paper is a guide for retailers developed by Retail Counsil of Canada, Industry Canada and IBM Canada. All retailers require accurate and up-to-date information about the products they sell. [03 Jul 2008]
When is a supplier gift/junket inappropriate?
News Venn Luscombe-Mahoney, head of IT at online retailer White Stuff, said free gifts and junkets are still especially prevalent in the retail arena. But Johnson added that the IT industry isn't different from any other in this practice and that... [06 Jun 2008]
Issues With Supply Chain and RFID in the Retail Industry
White Paper The retail industry is experiencing problems in the supply chain because there is no formal collaboration between the retailer and supplier. Demand uncertainty in the supply chain, known as the "Bullwhip effect," results in excess inventory and... [31 May 2008]
PCI Compliance - The New Reality for European Retail Companies
White Paper Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard is now a reality for every retailer: compliance should be high on every retailer's list of priorities for enterprise security. Centre-stage for compliance must be a retailer's... [31 May 2008]
Understanding Total Cost of Ownership in Building an Advanced Store Systems Business Case
White Paper It analyzes research results that show the different store systems evaluation priorities used by different retail industry segments and provides sample retailer models and financial metrics to use as guides, concluding with a review of the full... [29 Mar 2008]
Laptops are the new mobile phone, says Carphone Warehouse
News The retailer was addressing the Retail Week Conference in London about how to weather the continuing downturn in consumer spending. Dunstone, who is notorious for opening up new markets for customers, said the retail industry is facing challenging... [12 Mar 2008]
Jaeger invests in data mining to cut stock loss
News Speaking at the Retail Business Show in London, Hearn explained only 30 per cent of the retailer's stock shrinkage came from external theft. Classic fashion retailer Jaeger is about to start a data-mining project as part of a £120,000 effort to... [06 Feb 2008]
Call for tougher online retail age checks
News She wants to see any retailer who fails to do this face a hefty fine or even imprisonment. If a retailer is repeatedly caught selling to under-age shoppers, they are banned from selling age-restricted goods. [21 Jan 2008]
Tesco IT chief steps down
News The retailer has also been at the leading edge of the testing and exploitation of RFID technologies in the retail sector, using RFID both in-store and in the supply chain. Its CEO Sir Terry Leahy has publicly praised the role technology has played... [14 Nov 2007]
Tesco CIO scoops top honour at CNET UK Awards
News The retailer's CIO fought off strong competition for the award from a shortlist including Neil Cameron of Unilever, Trevor Didcock of The AA, Simon Jennings of Oxfam and David Lister of Reuters. The honours for Retail and Leisure project of the... [25 Sep 2007]
Software From the SAP for Retail Solution Portfolio Helps Company Grow 70% in Five Years
White Paper Integration, efficiency, and growth: these were the main factors that led Bemol, a successful department store retailer, to invest in software from the SAP for Retail solution portfolio. As the first company in Brazil to implement human capital... [14 Sep 2007]
HMV adopts lean digital business strategy
News Music, video and games retailer HMV Group has set out its web 2.0 stall as part of an effort to offset flagging physical store sales, and which could also lead to redundancies in the IT department. The retailer, which operates the HMV and... [28 Jun 2007]
Boots aiming to shave £30m off annual IT costs
News Health and beauty retailer Boots is aiming to cut the cost of running its IT operations by a third after completing a £300m, three-year modernisation programme. During that transformation the retailer increased its new IT investment from £25m to... [25 Apr 2007]
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