Three Strategies for Optimizing Your Results in “Returnuary”
January marks the start of a brand new year. That means consumers everywhere are making resolutions, joining gyms, journaling, cutting back on alcohol and calories, and engaging in other self-improvement activities. Unfortunately for the world’s retailers, consumers are also returning products. A lot of products….
Making Retail Returns Greener Is Always in Fashion
Sustainability is an increasing concern for every retail business, and for a good reason. Food, apparel, textiles, packaging materials and other consumer products not only cause environmental impacts as they’re produced and transported, but they often end up in landfills. With their trendy offerings and…
Fashion Returns Fraud Is Growing — But Digitalization Helps Retailers Fight Back
Product returns are an expensive, and growing, problem for fashion retailers. According to a report by Appriss Retail and the National Retail Federation (NRF), total returns for the retail industry amounted to $743 billion in merchandise in 2023, creating huge reverse logistics costs. For fashion…
Resolve to Join a Blue Yonder User Group This Year
Now that the holidays are behind us, ‘tis the season for gym memberships, “damp January” and other self-improvement plans. This year, why not resolve to increase your company’s returns on Blue Yonder software, improve your supply chain results, and find a like-minded community of peers…
Looking Ahead to NRF 2025
From Jan. 12 – 14, 2025, over 40,000 retail professionals will descend on the Javits Convention Center in New York City for the retail industry’s biggest show of the year — NRF ‘25. Every year, retail professionals gather to learn from their peers, see and…
The State of Order Management: Commerce and Order Management Strategies to Drive Success
This blog was co-written by Nina Seth and Hiu Wai Loh. The retail landscape continues to evolve. Every retailer must create customer-centric experiences from click to deliver and back, leverage stores as fulfillment hubs and keep an eye on sustainability to meet the needs of sustainability…
Keep or Return? Fashion Influencers Have Created a Costly Trend for Retailers
It’s no secret that product returns are one of the biggest challenges facing the world’s retailers — especially retailers of fashion apparel. Clothing trends and product seasons come and go with increasing speed today. That means fashion retailers must get returned products back in stores,…
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like the Post-Peak Season
The holiday season is a time for joy — and for supply chain chaos. This year is no exception. The five-day period from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday shattered online retail sales records, with U.S. consumers spending $41.1 billion, an increase of 8.1% over 2023. The…
How Cooperative Supply Chains Are Transforming Retail and Logistics
This blog has been adapted from a talk given at the Leaders in Logistics: Last Mile event. In the past, meeting up with friends meant setting a specific time and place and hoping everyone showed up as planned. In today’s world, we continuously update one…
5 Steps for Retailers to Optimize Marketplace Returns and Protect Their Brand
In our last marketplaces post, we covered why many retailers are establishing marketplaces for third-party sellers to offer their products through. The opportunities for growth are undeniable, but there are challenges to overcome to maximize the marketplace approach. Foremost among them is the question of…