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RedPrairie has finalised the acquisition of Escalate Retail, an all-channel commerce provider to specialty retailers, direct marketers and big-ticket retailers

Poor stock control led to 2.86 million missed sales at Christmas, according to a study by software house Aldata

With retailers experiencing a toxic mix of increasing commodity prices, rising fuel costs and a hike in VAT, the focus for most in 2011 will be on inventory reduction, cost containment and supply chain optimisation. By Nick Allen.

Thanks to changing technology, concepts that were once regarded as innovative, high risk, too complex or simply too expensive are rapidly becoming standard – and that applies both to IT and logistics services.

Eurozone retailers had a bumper month in January, according to the Markit Retail Purchasing Managers’ Index

Some 60 per cent of retailers now offer next-day delivery, while 25 per cent offer Saturday delivery, according to Snow Valley’s 2011 Online Delivery Report

Growth in internet sales is likely to underpin the logistics property market this year, according to King Sturge’s Property Predictions 2011

Retailers have been counting the cost of the snow in the run-up to Christmas which not only disrupted supply chains but also kept shoppers at home

Almost a third of high street retailers are gambling with stock shortages over the Christmas period and passing pressure back onto the supply chain, according to a study by cloud computing company NetSuite

With retail buying power concentrated in ever fewer hands – especially in the grocery sector – CPG suppliers must conform to their various customers’ supply chain processes.