Prime Day Early Access: How Consumers Embraced Amazon’s New Deal Event and What it Means for the Holidays
After months of rumors, Amazon held its new deal event, Prime Early Access Sale, from Oct. 11-12 to officially kick off the 2022 holiday shopping season. With inflation rates still above 8% at the end of September and excess inventory continuing to be an issue,…
More Than a Side Hustle: 5 Steps for CPG Brands to Make D2C a Growth Engine
It’s no secret that the evolution of marketplaces and the COVID-19 pandemic altered consumer behavior over recent years. Now 51% of consumers start their shopping journey in the digital channel. It’s also hardly a revelation that retailers have responded by rethinking their strategies around inventory…
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,…
Beauty Styles Come and Go – Can Your Order Management Solution Adapt to Ongoing Trends?
Beauty trends come and go and quickly. What’s “in” for Summer is “out” by Fall. Lightweight breathable foundations make way for foundations that keeps dry skin luminous during the colder seasons. And sometimes the latest social media trend (think TikTok) plays a part in elevating…
Understanding the Difference Between ATS and ATP: It’s Time for Brands to Start Keeping Their Promises
Breaking a promise to consumers has never been more dangerous, as expectations across numerous metrics become more severe and decisive. Amid this challenge, it is critical that retailers are able to generate a real-time view of what is “available to promise” (ATP) and not just…
Achieving Profitability in Grocery E-Commerce
A Blue Yonder Perspective This blog was written by Shannon Wu-Lebron, CVP Industry Strategies, with contributions from Nina Seth, Director Product Marketing Online grocery has certainly grown in the past few years —it received a nice size bump during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, sales…
Finding Focus in the Fight Against Inflation
In conjunction with this blog post, watch our on-demand webinar Finding Focus in the Fight Against Inflation. The 1970s are known for a lot more than Star Wars and pet rocks. The era is also known for supply-side economic shocks, low growth and high inflation….
A Look Back at the Order Management Line-Up at ICON 2022
Consumer expectations have drastically changed in the past few years. Consumers expect a seamless experience across channels. They want product availability online even before they walk into the store. In fact, according to Forrester, “65% of consumers expect retailers/brands to show in-store product availability online…
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…
Amazon Prime Day 2022: Three Trends From This Year’s Annual Shopping Event
Amazon Prime Day may have returned to its sweet spot of mid-July, but it was not immune to the current economic challenges. And neither were the retailers that planned to ride the coattails of the annual shopping event. With inflation at a 41-year high of…