Re-Shaping Retail Integration: Changing retail landscape with Social-Mobile-Analytics-Cloud
Wipro

The report examines the changing and challenging retail landscape and outlines how technology is reshaping the retail landscape, with a conscious move towards e-commerce. It also states how retailers can deal with highly informed and demanding consumers who have a world of information available to them. 

India Retail Supply Chain Study 2013
RAI-SCMHRD

This report is a detailed piece of documentation that captures all facets of supply chain from a retailer's perspective. This study, in which 50 major retailers participated, explores key issues in retail supply chain management. It is a handy guide on supply chains in retail in India with an inside view from people and organizations who matter in this space. These insights equip retailers with a unique understanding about the retail supply chain domain in the country and enable them to make informed decisions about their supply chains right from supplier to all the way to the store shelf. It also gives retailers a bird 's eye view of where the retail supply chain stands today and the future outlook.

Spotlight on Modern Retail
NRF Foundation & KPMG

The report by NRF Foundation in partnership with KPMG uses data and real examples to demonstrate retail's participation in social trends, the industry's development of innovative solutions and, most of all, what a great industry retail is to work in. It also highlights how consumers, technology and innovation are shaping retail.

Why are there so many retailers operating loyalty programmes and so many consumers with wallets and purses stuffed with various retail loyalty cards?

There was a clear difference between how the retailer looked at customer experience and what the shopper wanted. To be able to bridge this gap, it was important to break the silos and create a unified experience.

A large percentage of smart phone owners now use their devices to assist in purchases every month. What has caused this shift in trend?

The focus on supply chain planning excellence has never been higher.

Shopper marketing must be embraced through an integrated approach, wielding the power of individual marketing disciplines in a unified manner, while placing the shopper at the center of all activity.

Shopper marketing must be embraced through an integrated approach, wielding the power of individual marketing disciplines in a unified manner, while placing the shopper at the center of all activity.

Shopper Marketing: The 'silo-busting' challenge across Sales & Marketing
Brand Learning

Increasingly, organisations are recognising the critical importance of aligning their Sales and Marketing functions in their drive for new commercial growth. A key vehicle for this alignment resides in an existing but currently over-siloed activity.

Consumers have the tools, literally at their fingertips, to immerse themselves in a retailer's brand but also to skewer that brand on blogs or social media if the brand promise is broken, the shopping experience disappoints, or a purchase costs more than expected.

Moving towards cloud commerce helps transfer greater portions of e-commerce applications, and data into the cloud adds real value to the organization.

This paper offers nine guidelines for managing global supply chains to help companies reach this increased strategic focus and globalization of supply chains.

Your supply chain can make or break your retail business. Proceed with care.