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In 2025, Changing Consumer Demand will Reshape the Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

According to Gartner, more than three-quarters of supply chain leaders are being asked to improve their customer experience (CX) strategies. A customer-centric approach to supply chain management is challenging; it requires a deep understanding of consumer expectations and behaviors, not just today but also for the foreseeable future.

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Retail Trends in 2021 — Overcoming 2020’s Challenges

Retail TouchPoints

Is that even possible coming out of a year like 2020? One futurist we know said, “2020 was so weird I didn’t even get a chance to be wrong.”. Next is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which was getting mindshare, if not budget, well before 2020. But let’s be real here. But the post must go on.

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RFID Journal Award Honors Brazilian Cosmetics Retailer Grupo Boticário

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The recognition is in honor of an RFID solution Grupo Boticário deployed to boost traceability and address other challenges in its supply chain. 2020 conference and exhibition, were sponsored by the RFID Professional Institute. The RFID Journal Awards, which were announced last week during the RFID Journal Virtually LIVE!

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Tackling the Growing Problem of Fashion Returns Earlier in the Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

According to Canada Post , 46% of shoppers made a return in 2020, compared to only 37% in 2019, which equates to nearly $430 billion worth of merchandise winding back into warehouses. Circling back into the feedback loop, manual supply chain management can contribute to product inaccuracies, thus further heightening the levels of returns.

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Behind Documents’ path to luxury fragrance leadership in China

Inside Retail

He is an accomplished designer who studied arts in France 15 years ago before taking a job with a public relations consultancy in China’s capital, Beijing, where he worked on the account of Procter & Gamble, an FMCG company with a raft of hair and skincare products. Our design ability could not transform into good performance,” he said.

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Inside the book industry’s supply chain ‘crisis’

Inside Retail

In 2020, 15.9% This is in sharp contrast to music sales: physical music sales in Australia in 2020 accounted for just 11% of sales revenue. Supply chains may be impacting the shelves of your favourite independent book seller, but there is no reason they should impact your reading joy. purchased a printed book.

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Analysis: Synergies begin to show after merger of SEA hypermarkets

Inside Retail

The retail and wholesale businesses accounted for a roughly even split of the company’s 219.6 Year-on-year sales growth on the retail side, which is now mostly accounted for by Lotus’s, is not available, since the base period was prior to the Lotus’s acquisition. billion baht ($9.4 billion) in sales through the first half of the year.

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