Apparel Magazine

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5 Reasons Why Your Back-To-School Retail Execution Must Be Flawless 6/18/2013 5 reasons that back to school retail execution must be flawless for apparel companies, and how mobility can help. Download Now

How to Choose the Right Apparel PLM Solution 6/14/2013 The PLM market is expected to grow by up to 40% annually by 2014. Apparel companies view PLM as a vital investment and are rushing to implement this technology in order to accelerate speed-to-market, increase process visibility, and enhance collaboration. This whitepaper will take you through the important first steps when you are deciding on what PLM solution to choose, and how to remove the uncertainty from the selection process to achieve the maximum possible return on your investment. DOWNLOAD NOW

Online Shopping Report: How Counterfeiters are Targeting Your Customers in Digital Channels 6/6/2013 Discover how 1 in 5 online bargain hunters were duped by rogue websites selling counterfeits. This eye-opening Shopping Report from MarkMonitor challenges common assumptions about consumers and counterfeits. Download now! Download Now

Selling Online: How Third-party Solutions Providers Add Value 6/1/2013 Aligning with third-party solution providers to manage e-commerce IT and operations can yield advantages for apparel brands and retailers, such as lower capital expenses and the ability to focus finite resources on their core competencies. Download Now

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. Download Now

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. Download Now

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. Download Now

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. DOWNLOAD NOW

The Omnichannel Retail Supply Chain: How Technology and Networks Delivered in the Cloud Will Separate the Winners and Losers in the Eyes of Today's Consumer 9/1/2012 Retail is undergoing a transformation, and retailers are making a move towards omnichannel to stay relevant. Traditional systems are no longer sufficient, and leaders are adopting powerful, cloud-based technology to gain visibility and connect with trading partners. Download Now

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. Download Now