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…
Architectures monolithiques vs microservices : il est temps de faire bouger les lignes
En raison de l’impact du COVID-19, d’une série d’événements perturbateurs de type Black Swann et de l’évolution du comportement des consommateurs, les stratégies de transformation numérique des détaillants sont passées d’une feuille de route à long terme à une nécessité immédiate. Cependant, après cette prise…
5 étapes pour optimiser les stocks : Il est temps d’introduire la planification au cœur du sujet de la gestion des commandes
Pourquoi ne parle-t-on pas du premier kilomètre lorsqu’on essaie de perfectionner le dernier kilomètre ? Lorsqu’il s’agit de la numérisation du réapprovisionnement et de l’exécution des commandes, les détaillants commencent à avoir les bonnes conversations. Dans un comité, le réapprovisionnement optimal basé sur des données…