Following a Thread Driven By Design
Case Study: I Love UglyUnique Design for Discerning CustomersValentin Ozich had to do a little exploration before he struck the right creative chord. Back in 2008, the illustration collective he...
View ArticleCan Business Afford Bad Infrastructure?
How much does bad infrastructure cost your business? Does inadequate public transportation investment or aging roads impact your overall costs? Finally, what prices would you (and your customers) pay...
View ArticleTis the Season for a Courier Price War
When I was a kid growing up in the Bronx, the local merchants paid to decorate the main commercial drag for Christmas. Every year, the decorations seemed to go up a little earlier. Now, it’s the first...
View Article3 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Brand
There isn’t a product category that has not been impacted by the Amazon Effect. Moreover, Amazon has turned some categories, most notably apparel, on their heads. Can a product or even an industry...
View Article3 Potential Impacts of Amazon Australia
What will happen when Amazon Australia launches? We’ve been hearing about it for almost a year now. Amazon’s coming to Australia and it’s going to change how people buy and sell Down Under. No doubt,...
View ArticleWhy Retailers Adapt For Mobile eCommerce
Mobile eCommerce is as important to business today as online stores started to become a decade ago. It makes sense as a natural progression. After all, just as eCommerce sprung from a maturing world...
View ArticleFinding Your Way Through the Amazon Maze
You’d have to live in the frozen tundra to know nothing about Amazon. Even then, it’s open to debate. The point is, Amazon continues to make a huge impact on the world. It changed how consumers shop...
View ArticleDoes Your Business Suffer Inventory Pileup?
When does stockpiling a product become an inventory pileup? When your product collects dust on the storeroom shelf. Call it pileup, call it overstock, but when you hold too much inventory, you lose...
View ArticleThe Importance of B2B Online Marketplaces
If you need evidence of the importance of B2B online marketplaces, let the investment market point the way. NuOrder, the online wholesale marketplace for fashion and apparel just got an $8 million cash...
View ArticleSo, Entry Fee Retail is a Thing Now?
An op-ed in Business of Fashion made waves suggesting a future option for brick-and-mortar retail. Charge customers for the shopping experience. Call it an admission, call it membership, it seems new,...
View ArticleAs Kiwis Spend More Online, Are Retailers Amazon-Ready?
Every year, New Zealand consumers buy more online than they did 12 months before. According to research from BNZ and Marketview, online spending growth outpaces in-store growth. If eCommerce has such...
View Article3 Lessons of the Department Store Struggle
In a year of bad news for traditional retail, July shone a hopeful light on the department store struggle. Business Insider estimates that 6,700 US department store, fashion and other retail branches...
View ArticleWhy Businesses Battle for Perfect Fulfillment
Take a step back to appreciate the ever-unfolding drama of Walmart versus Amazon. For example, in the latest volley, Walmart plans floating warehouses in the sky. According to PYMNTS, the retailer...
View ArticleUpgrades and Fixes to Cin7 for August
It seems like this year is zooming by. Cin7 has seen many changes since January, including more integrations, improvements, and fixes, and of course the introduction of the Supply Chain App Store in...
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Who Will Be the Brick-and-Mortar Survivors?
Who will be the brick-and-mortar survivors that thrive in the next retail age? I write next retail age because the term “retail apocalypse” makes me cringe. In the first place, “apocalypse” turns a...
View ArticleCin7 Shines a Light on Amazon For NZ Retail
Amazon will launch in Australia in 2018, leading New Zealand retailers to wonder how it will impact their business. What do they do to prepare for an online marketplace with an appetite for disruption?...
View ArticleRealtime Inventory Visibility Key to Retail
How many ways do you sell to your customers? No matter how you answer, if you don’t know how much stock is moving through every channel you use, you’re losing money. Too much inventory sucks up your...
View ArticleCase Study: Royal Flying Doctor Service of Victoria
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) dates back to an emergency assistance flight that took off on May 17, 1928 in Queensland. The RFDS grew from there, with the the Victoria branch forming in 1934,...
View ArticleThe Growing Importance of the 3PL Relationship
When you consider what it takes to get products to customers, how high do you rank logistics? How you warehouse and ship your products impacts both your costs and your customer relationship. After all,...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Amazon Vendor Chargebacks
Amazon Australia will launch in 2018, by most accounts. The company already has a website for businesses to qualify as the first Amazon Australia sellers. Sellers make up the bulk of Amazon Marketplace...
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