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Sustainability and Profitability: How Embedding Sustainability can Boost Business Performance

Retail TouchPoints

To meet Net Zero goals and comply with evolving regulations, companies must integrate sustainability across the value chain from raw materials to design, sales and marketing and supply chain management. Next, turn to skills such as sustainable procurement, supply chain management and stakeholder management.

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Devising an Optimal Returns Policy for Your Business

Retail TouchPoints

The ecommerce website Jet.com, which was sold to Walmart in 2016, used this strategy — just to name one example. His research interests are in the areas of pricing and revenue management, retail operations and supply chain management. I term this strategy customer self-selection.

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Inside the book industry’s supply chain ‘crisis’

Inside Retail

Between 2016 and 2021, the industry contracted by 6.1% , and it was expected to continue to fall. Supply chains may be impacting the shelves of your favourite independent book seller, but there is no reason they should impact your reading joy. There are some 1,900 bookstores in Australia that contribute about A$1.4

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Rethinking Retail Fulfillment – the key to Navigating a Post-Brexit Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

He is also the Founder and Owner of the LinkedIn Supply Chain Management Group , brimming with more than 200,000 industry professionals. Pecoraro began his journey with PFS in Implementation, moving through Client Solutions and Client Services before his timely promotion to Managing Director in 2016.

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Trillions in revenue and a million jobs: Unpacking JD.com’s 20-year roadmap

Inside Retail

In 2016, JD.com formed a strategic alliance with Walmart, taking control of the latter’s online grocery business, Yihaodian, and giving Walmart a 5 per cent stake in JD. JD.com’s global aspirations revolve around leveraging its robust supply chain infrastructure to enhance its international business operations.

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Business Growth through Digital Transformation: The Case of Premium and Luxury Brands

Retail Focus

Degree of Integration: Dior has integrated digitalisation into multiple aspects of its brand processes, including supply chain management and customer data analysis. The brand leverages these channels for product launches, brand campaigns, and customer engagement.

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La Maison Simons wins Supply Chain Innovation Award

Retalon

The Retail Coucil of Canada acknowledged that Simons’ excelled in all aspects of their supply chain by integrating key functions such as omni-channel demand forecasting, planning, purchasing, logistics, allocation, warehouse management, replenishment, and inter-channel inventory & assortment balancing.