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Ecommerce in 2025: How Data Quality Powers Growth and Customer Satisfaction

Retail TouchPoints

Shipping errors are reduced and checkout is easier, protecting the customers overall experience with your brand. Every country has its own unique address formats, and inconsistencies can lead to costly errors in cross-border shipping.

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Why forecasting is critical to success in omnichannel retail

Retail Focus

In our view, Forecasting software is a far more effective approach to supply chain management. Accurate prediction of future demand based on seasonal trends and planned promotional activity drives more informed and timely buying decisions. 3, Improving stock turn, cashflow, and operating margins.

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Automation Isn’t Always the Answer to Warehouse Inefficiencies

Retail TouchPoints

Supply chain managers are having to become even smarter about how to reduce costs and drive efficiencies throughout their warehouse and supply chain. What’s Keeping Retail Supply Chain Managers Awake at Night? If they don’t already have a seat at the senior leadership table, they should.

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The four trends defining online retail in 2024

Inside Retail

Thanks to rapid innovations in supply chain management, AI technology and digital marketing, e-commerce is increasingly playing an integral role in the lives of everyday Aussies. In present-day e-commerce, same-day fulfilment and free shipping are often part and parcel, not perks of the experience.

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Canada’s New Supply Chain Bill Creates Obligations for Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

After complaints that Canada had for too long turned a blind eye to the problem of forced labor in supply chains, Bill S-211 represents significant progress, aligning Canada with a growing global trend of legislation aimed at eradicating modern slavery and promoting social sustainability. The law, which goes into effect Jan.

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Going Green: How Retailers Are Moving from Physical to Digital Stores to Save the Environment

365 Retail

Additionally, stores may print vast amounts of promotional materials, flyers, and in-store signage, which end up as waste. By operating online, retailers can minimise the need for physical signage and promotional materials, reducing paper waste. Digital stores offer a solution to these challenges.

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Inside Walmart’s Expanding Last Mile Strategy: Employee Empowerment, Automation and Sustainability

Retail TouchPoints

Some of the retailer’s plans include redesigning back rooms to accommodate pickup, delivery and ship- from-store orders; adjusting staging operations for orders to drop in three-hour increments to maximize space; and sending overflow delivery orders to the crowdsourced Spark Driver network.