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01.25.2010 -- Exploit Your Site With The 4C Strategy

January 25, 2010

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Editor's Notebook

Three Ways To Leverage Mobility
By Matt Pillar, Editor In Chief, Retail Solutions Online/Integrated Solutions For Retailers magazine
There are three general opportunities for mobile retail apps. One's a bit old, one's too new, and one's just hitting its prime.

Integrated Solutions For Retailers Magazine Article

Q&A: Revisit Your Supply Chain Sourcing Strategies
By Erin Harris, Integrated Solutions For Retailers magazine
A periodic review of your sourcing strategy ensures achievement of desired results and continued alignment with business objectives. Darin Cooprider, VP supply chain solutions/consumer packaged goods at Ryder, provides insightful answers to my questions on the topic of supply chain sourcing strategies.

Q&A: Revisit Your Supply Chain Sourcing Strategies

Executive Outlook

Vendor Insight: Embrace The 4C Strategy
By Kevin Ertell, VP of Retail Strategy, ForeSee Results
Your websites are about much more than the buy button; they are marketing and merchandising vehicles, brand builders, customer research tools, and sales drivers, both offline and online. Given the various roles your sites fill both for you and for your customers, focusing only on online sales as a measure of online success wrongly undervalues your sites in the big picture of a multichannel organization, both in terms of the website's value to you as a retail organization and your website's value to your customers.

Featured Articles

Consumer Products Leaders Find Gold Hidden In Their Demand Data
Submitted By Consumer Goods Technology And QlikView
Ever-shortening product lifecycles, eroding loyalty, rising costs — operating a profitable, expanding consumer products (CP) company was already getting more challenging by the day, even before the eroding economy turned up the heat. With that came increasingly unpredictable consumer demand and growing pressure on pricing, promotional budgets, and other costs.

Consumer Products Leaders Find Gold Hidden In Their Demand Data

Dell HQ Campus Goes Green
Submitted By Advantage IQ
Managing resources can be a difficult task for any Fortune 500 company. And, launching a company-wide initiative to go green definitely adds to the complexity. Despite the challenges, Dell recognized the environmental and operational benefits of becoming an eco-friendly company and made a commitment to neutralize the carbon impact of its worldwide operations, a significant extension of its global climate policy and environmental stewardship.

Dell HQ Campus Goes Green

North American Container Company Saves European Supermarkets $20M
Submitted By Elvinco Group
Netto, one of Scandinavia's largest supermarket chains with over 1,000 stores across Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Britain, and Germany, needed to re-examine their logistics system when their receiving bays were dealing with unmanageable volumes of empty corrugate boxes, trays, and packaging materials.

North American Container Company Saves European Supermarkets $20M

Industry News

Inventory Management System Brings RFID's Capabilities To Uptown Cycles
Oracle To Help Retailers Improve Financial Control Of The Merchandising Lifecycle
Galleria Launches Behavioral Cluster Planning™ Solution
Jesta I.S. Is PA-DSS Certified By Coalfire
RDN Developed EPC Gen 2 Based Mobile Software For Retail Store Interaction
Raymark Partners With CSC To Further Internationalization
Retailers Increase Revenue And Enable Agile Operations In Challenging Economy
BMS Announces Release Of New Desktop Barcode And Label Printers
Verizon Helps Drive IT Standards For Retailers
Cybex Systems Announces Enterprise Retail System 8.0
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Featured Downloads

Datalogic Mobile Computers Catalog
Datalogic Mobile, part of the Datalogic Group, is a global player in the rugged mobile computers market. It offers a full-range of products dedicated to the target application fields of warehousing solutions, field-force automation, and retail in-store.

Vendor Insight: Apply Access Control Principles To Secure Goods-In-Transit
Stephen Pollack, director of marketing at Kaba Mas LLC explains why access control systems are poised to reshape the landscape of cargo loss prevention programs.
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Featured Video

Video: Source Technologies Retail Kiosk Solutions Demonstration
View this brief product demonstration video from Source Technologies Inc., an overview of powerful interactive kiosk solutions — solutions that add efficiency and improve the customer experience.
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