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Why Some Social Media Consumers are Better than Others
5/1/2013
The rise of social media as a way to interact and market to consumers is crystal clear but retailers can struggle with how to properly engage with these channels. This L.E.K. Executive Insights report delves into five distinct social media audience segments and how retailers can nurture positive relationships with them.
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5 Ways to Use Cloud Technology to Meet Customer Demand
4/30/2013
Cloud-based technology provides a vehicle for making rapid changes as economic and business conditions shift. Apparel retailers, brands and manufacturers can leverage the technology to be more agile in meeting demand while controlling costs. Download Now.
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A source of satisfaction: Technology support for global sourcing
4/15/2013
From manufacturing to sourcing - Over the past couple of decades, most apparel and footwear brands in developed economies have moved away from their manufacturing origins. Supported by information technology, they have evolved into sourcing companies whose manufacturing is handled by a third party. The manufacturer is often located in countries with available labor, modern plants and equipment, and a lower cost base. For example, companies tend to source in Asia, Central America and the Caribbean, while European companies typically opt for Asia and Eastern Europe. Read this White Paper – authored by Bob McKee, Infor, Industry Strategy Director to gain insights into the best sourcing model for your business.
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Three Tenets of Retail Customer Excellence
4/1/2013
In today’s competitive retail environment, L.E.K. Consulting believes a new customer excellence model where retailers are highly engaged and responsive at every stage of the shopping experience is the key to making your brand stand out. L.E.K. outlines three successful attributes of retail customer excellence in this Executive Insights report.
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The Right Places to Look for Cost Reductions
1/21/2013
Where is the opportunity to reduce costs in the supply chain? The fashion industry has driven about as much cost out of the product itself as we are going to. We keep looking for more ways to reduce material and labor costs, but these are not the right cost components. The room for further improvement in those categories is marginal at best and volatile at worst. The right places to look depend in part on where you do business. The luxury market has different rules from the specialty and commodity markets. Across the spectrum, however, business process improvements, sustainability initiatives and clear data visibility offer the most attainable and maintainable cost reductions. Read this fourth in a series of White Papers – authored by Bob McKee, Infor, Industry Strategy Director where he will share insights modelled on specific cases and customer best practices.
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What's Driving Tomorrow's Retail Experience?
7/2/2012
In the next five years, retailers believe developing a more engaging in-store customer experience will be business critical. This paper takes a look at the changes in the industry including changing shopper mindsets and behaviors, and the new expectations shoppers have for their in-store experience.
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One Size Does Not Fit All In Multi Channel Distribution
4/1/2012
There's no question that the world of retailing is changing at breakneck speeds as customers connect with brands in stores, via their computers, virtual shopping kiosks, tablets, smart phones, Facebook, Pinterest and more. But is the supply chain ready for this multichannel revolution, particularly from the distribution point of view? This white paper explores the key considerations for developing the right multichannel supply side solution.
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e-Sales in a Borderless World: Opportunity or Threat?
2/27/2012
Investigate the potential of social media and mobile apps to increase your share in a huge online market -- if you are ready. A new white paper, e-Sales in a Borderless World: Opportunity or Threat?, examines the maturation of e-commerce and the rapid takeoff of mobile commerce in the U.S., EU and Asia Pacific. It recommends simple ways to manage multichannel sales generation, ordering, fulfillment and customer service in a complex global market.
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Tablets in the Retail Store: A Rationale
2/13/2012
Tablets are rapidly becoming an important tool in retailers' toolboxes for enabling high-quality and differentiating customer experiences. Tablets will not be the only tool in that box, by any means, but if tablets are to be successful in the retail store, there is no better time to make the attempt. Nikki Baird, Managing Partner, RSR Research explores how tablets are creating new opportunities for retailers to enhance brand experiences and build brand loyalty.
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How to Be a True omnichannel retailer in 2012
1/18/2012
Give your Fulfillment a Kiva Tune-Up in 2012! Tuning-up your distribution center for omni-channel growth will help you to keep up with the changing demands of today's and tomorrow's commerce. Read this new white paper from Kiva Systems to learn about readying your fulfillment operations for omni-channel success!
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Super Freakn' Fashionomics
8/2/2011
The world has changed, the economy has changed, and business models have changed - what's your next move? China isn't the low-cost fashion supplier it once was. This means new challenges, new opportunities and plenty of tough decisions to be made. Listen to Bob McKee, Industry Strategy Director at Lawson and find out if it's time to build a better sourcing strategy for the future. Download Now
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Acumen's Hyper Growth Meets its Match in Kiva
8/1/2011
The use of a flexible and automated materials handling solution can enable your retail distribution operations by offering complete inventory control and the flexibility necessary to adapt to the challenges of the sophisticated retail landscape. Take apparel shop, Accumen Holdings, who adds new categories all of the time. Since they installed Kiva, Acumen has increased efficiency tenfold and reduced order processing times from days to minutes. Don’t miss this video narrated by Acumen's CEO that shows how they established a world-class fulfillment center. View Now.
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2013 Top Innovators
Congratulations to Apparel’s 40 Innovator Award winners, companies that got their creative spark on by looking at their business in new ways — taking a fresh approach to solving problems that were impeding growth, or developing new products for consumers that they didn’t even realize they needed, but soon will.
Creativity guru Roger von Oech once said that “it's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.” Read on to learn more about the inspiring stories of apparel businesses that learned how to let go.
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