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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. This naturally engages more of the business model, from finance to IT to supply chain.

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The Secret to Solving Retail’s $743 Billion Returns Problem: Intelligent Customer Support

Retail TouchPoints

His strategic vision has driven transformative outcomes in digital business services across multiple industries, delivering innovative, cutting-edge solutions in finance, HR, procurement and supply chain management.

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It’s Official – Amazon is an Ecommerce Enabler First and a Retailer Second

Retail TouchPoints

Here’s a look at how Amazon is moving even further away from the domain of retailer with the debut of new services in supply chain management, shipping, banking, market research, product development, inventory management and more. Now qualified sellers can borrow more, up to $5 million.

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Bringing Sustainability and Innovation to the Grocery Store Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

When’s the last time you took an inventory of your supply chain management technologies? Nixon received a Master of Business Administration in Finance and in Finance and Strategic Human Resource Management from Southern Methodist University. Consider new technologies.

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What Can and Should Retailers Do About Climate Change?

Retail TouchPoints

Imagine embracing the principles of environmental circularity across a wide variety of products, implementing energy efficiency programs in stores and engaging supply chain management in a concerted fashion. Ingalls holds a B.S.

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AI in Retail: Optimizing Operations from Supply Chains to Employee Scheduling

Retail TouchPoints

Seeing this, a supply chain manager would want to know exactly how this would affect the trucks carrying their company’s products. When AI-powered solutions work in tandem with IoT sensors and visibility software, that value is multiplied. He gave the example of truck congestion along the U.S.-Mexico Mexico border.

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For the pandemic-hit fashion industry, the future is digital

Inside Retail

Buy-Now, Pay-Later solutions can also bring in new users that were previously unable to finance an entire purchase at once. The recent acceleration of e-commerce necessitates a reimagining of shopping flows, fulfilment logistics, and supply chain management. The bottom line.