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.
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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.
Online retailers are bullish about the run up to Christmas with sales estimated to rise to £6.4bn in December, according to IMRG, the e-commerce trade association
The Supply Chain Company has launched the JDA Adaptor, a tool that allows retailers to share their individual store, product and inventory availability as part of Google’s “local availability” feature
