The Hidden Heroics of Commerce Capacity Capabilities
“Available to promise.” This concept has become ever more important in retail. As customer expectations grow, retailers must deliver a smooth, omni-channel experience and give people what they want, when they want it. Retail leaders understand this point. In a 2022 Blue Yonder survey, executives…
How To Compete With Retail Giants — Without Spending a Fortune
The competitive landscape keeps getting tougher for retailers. That’s especially true as industry giants grow and grab more market share. How can retailers survive, and even thrive, in this environment? And how can they do it without the massive resources of a large retailer? One…
Why Retailers Need To Become Omni-Channel Jedis — and How To Do It
Here are two facts you can’t ignore if you’re in retail: Fact #1: The top 10% of retailers now control 70% of the market — and their share keeps growing. Fact #2: Those industry giants are getting more advanced, leaving competitors further behind. As the Harvard…
Understanding the True Value of OMS: Seven Signs of Optimization
Having a disjointed view of inventory and customer data across both physical and online channels is no longer an option for retailers. Effective order management in the present day requires end-to-end connectivity of intuitive, automated solutions that can optimize customer data and ensure a supply…
Why You Should Look Into the AI Black Box
As retailers invest in their commerce transformations and put their trust in the power of artificial intelligence (AI), they need to ensure their whole organization is aligned to make the best use of it. Historically, the decisions and logic of AI has been somewhat of…
D2C for CPG Can Be A-OK with OMS
Why supply chain optimization holds the key to achieving personalization as part of a direct-to-consumer model Why would a consumer product goods (CPG) brand look to adopt a direct-to-consumer (D2C) model? Or should the question be, “Why wouldn’t they?” Personalization is the aim of the…
Manufacturers Seek Capacity Clarity in Order to Keep Their Promises
Much of our world relies on the timeliness, effectiveness, quality, and reliability of manufacturers. And while a degree of wiggle room may have been afforded to producers in years gone by when it comes to ultimate delivery of items, a broken delivery promise in the…
Monolith Versus Microservice Architectures: It’s Time To Let the Latter Revive the Former
Thanks to the impacts of COVID-19, a host of black swan disruption events, and evolving consumer behavior, retailers’ digital transformation strategies went from being a long-term roadmap to an overnight necessity. However, upon this realization, and the incumbent need to revisit their current digital infrastructures,…
5 Steps to Optimizing Inventory: It’s Time To Bring Planning Into The Order Management Conversation
Why isn’t the first mile being discussed when trying to perfect the last mile? When it comes to the digitization of replenishment and fulfillment, retailers are beginning to have the right conversations. In one committee, optimal replenishment based on overarching consumer data is now a…